Ghost in the Shell?

[The Bat]

How about Major Moto Kusanagi from GHOST IN THE SHELL? It will soon have a big budget, live action Movie coming to the big screen.

[jwyblejr]

How much plastic would they have to use for her chest?

[The Bat]

How much plastic would they have to use for her chest?

Not much. I'm thinking of the Anime version...not the Comic Book.

[samurainoir]

Not sure the current ReMego bodies would do her justice. Who is playing her live action incarnation?



I think she'd be best suited for a Hot Toys treatment.

[Tothiro]

^ Ed - Oui, my French is horrible, and I'm not familiar with the phrase "fonds d'écran gratuit" (fond of the free screen? Is this a television meaning?) as it appears in the image post, but it's blowing out the margins for me... I love ham and cheese croissants and 24 hour donuts if that helps?

Re-Mego viability aside: Cast isn't announced as far as I know - No announcement has been made about whether it's still on track for 2011 (seriously, seriously doubt it - writer changed and the first draft just dropped off a short while ago)
Either way, it's probably going to have quite a price tag attached for merchandising. It's through Dreamworks, Spielberg is one of the producers... It'll be 3-D. Laeta Kalogridis is scripting it, who has co-producer/co-writer credit on the Cameron Avatar film as well as screenplay cred for Shutter Island. Some of Kalogridis' previous writing projects include pilots and episodes for Birds of Prey and modern Bionic Woman... Not awe inspiring IMO. Habit is to deviate quite a bit from source material, but then again she has come off from her statements as quite in love with the source manga for GITS. Who knows.

This doesn't strike me as an immediate toy development juggernaut (and I say this as a guy who got his first ToyFare gig from his 9" Appleseed Briareos Mego custom), but if a contract was drawn up I expect it would need a spare page of zeros attached for the price. I could see a company like Matty making a bid, as well as several others (I mean hey, I make bids on Wayne Foundations, doesn't mean I've won one yet), but I don't see that going a Retro route. I'd predict this property will stay firmly in the McFarlane/Sideshow/Hot Toys design realm if it gets a 1:9 treatment (we can dream), but my money is on the 5-7" chunka sculpted plastic movie tie-in, quick-to-dump film toy recipe we are all familiar with. See; Percy Jackson, Avatar, Avatar (*the other one), Dragon Ball (why was that even optioned?), Harry Potter, Star Trek Reboot, Tron, etc.

[boynightwing]

It means free wallpapers? huh...

[EMCEtoys]

Like I said with "Tank Girl" in another thread, I don't see how we'd apply our style to properties like this without them looking like a big pile of suck. It would be cartoony (not in the anime way), simple, and way out of context. It works for DC, Star Trek, Apes and some other classic figures because of those properties' histories.

Our approach toward a "Mego-fication" of a property is to make it look like it was made during Mego's peak, with improvements in specific areas that are recognized as detrimental to the original versions. Right down to the packaging style.

It's certainly not impossible to make a 1/9 scale hyper-realistic version of any property, but that's not been out mission to date. And given how the existing form of our figures net out to SRP of $17-$20 each, I can't see how we could deliver a hyper-real, limited edition for way beyond that. And is that what people want in this economy? Would someone pay $45-$50 for a super-limited edition poseable hyper-detailed 8" figure?