It spans several anime series, films, original video animations, and manga, and without getting too in-the-weeds: nothing in this new live-action film should be interpreted as canon. Here’s why: The ‘ Ghost in the Shell’ franchise is so vast that it doesn’t matter Leave that nonsense to Hollywood and, instead, operate as if this new Ghost in the Shell doesn’t exist. Those expectations are cultural and wrapped in the more-intricate-than-most-hot-takes-would-have-you-believe history of whitewashing in Hollywood, but they’re also monetary some estimates put the new Ghost in the Shell at losing as much as $100 million, which would put it in Gigli territory after all’s said and done.įortunately, it’s not your job or my job to weigh the consequences of that catastrophic failure. The reviews are in for Ghost in the Shell: The Definitely Live-Action Hollywood Cash-In Starring Scarlett Johansson and, boy, do they suck : The noble nerds at Vulture: “The Look of the Original, But Not Its Brain.” The well-dressed men of GQ: “Has a Movie Ever Owned Itself So Hard?” The future-thinking contingent at io9: “Beautiful But Ultimately Empty.” The discerning palates of Kotaku: “Really Bummed Us Out.”Īll this amounts to what many on the Internet at large saw as a forgone conclusion months ago: that a remake of a classic cyberpunk anime-an influence on everything from The Matrix to films that Johansson herself has already starred in-would fail to meet expectations.

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