SCI FI PI

Dreamworks has just announced that they've bought the rights to the anime classic, Ghost in The Shell. Steven Spielberg hopes to make the film as a live action, 3D extravaganza.

Yattah!

Whilst some pundits are already putting the kybosh on the venture due to some similarities to the original Matrix, aficionados will tell you to not to fret. Ghost is in fact a quite different, with the machines reaching consciousness and getting up to no good, rather than the humans. The style alone puts them on different planets, and to be fair, The Matrix was in fact a stylistic derivative of the anime world inhabited by Ghost in the Shell. So shut up.

Quoted in Variety, Spielberg was enthusiastic:

" 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks." "

Whether it's the original film only or a rehashed combination of the it and it's sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence or even the series, has yet to be made clear. With Spielberg's ever-darkening approach to Sci Fi, form the crowd pleasing worlds of - Close Encounters and ET to the more confronting AI and Minority Report, we can cross our fingers that he keeps heading in that direction and 'Ghost' becomes the 'Saving Private Ryan of Super High Tech Robot Movies'!

Fingers crossed.

Whatever it is, should be good, and will make a nice companion to the live action Akira, set to star Leo Di Caprio.

Release date? The future.