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Large budget, star -loaded, special effects Bonanzat is no longer guaranteed hits.
But the box office revenue was different in 2017, the time when Rock could do the wrong thing when people still thought that the War of Star was on the rise and Marvel brought a huge audience on the way Final game crescendo.
In that environment, the world’s largest star released a highly budgeted, stunning look, ultra-sex, high concept, sci-fi The action side is based on the beloved source material. The reported production budget is $ 110-180 million, plus $ 60 million for marketing, Prime The goal is a global franchise beginner, hoping for his competitors Matrix$ 460 million global gross since 1999.
The world responded to the film by shocking and judging, but that was not the only problem.
Therefore Ghost in the bark failed.
Stephen Spielberg was a classic 1995 anime movie mega-fan Ghost in the bark. At that time, he called the anime “one of the most visionary of all-time sci-fi movies” and his passion drove Dream work To cross the rights like Sony.
So in 2008, his company DreamWorks acquired the rights to turn it into a live action movie.
Translating it into a manuscript was difficult. Numerous writers were brought in and different approaches were tried; None of them worked.
The biggest problem was that DreamWorks wanted something that was available for public consumption of the audience, and doing it while staying loyal to the source turned out to be impossible.
Well estimated-r, 1995 Anime gross only $ 2 million worldwide, but it had a cult to follow. Paramount needed a hit to justify the budget of the movie, allocating at least $ 400 million worldwide.
Finally they hired a director Rupert Sanders, a guy behind Snow -white and hunter.
His solution was to remain faithful to Anime’s visual loyalty, focusing on the story more on action as a way to serve the public audience.
Sanders was shot in New Zealand and Hong Kong using 3000 cgi shots and a practical series to create an anime city description in the design of the Weta workshop by Major Body. The manuscript prioritizes action teams, such as the Geisha robot battle, over the heavy philosophy of the anime dialogue.
Scarlett Johansson joined the project in 2015 to play the film leader, The Major.
Thanks to playing the Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson had reached his fame as a peak in 2015, and he placed this fame on the irritable sci-fi project that he would be basically running naked as possible in the PG-13 movie, most of his driving time.
Major Body is designed to mimic the anime area’s aesthetic, but used opaque materials to secure the PG-13 rating, avoiding the perfect nudity of the original R-class.
Scarlett Johansson took a lot of such risks during this career.
In 2013, he deserved popularity with the star in Indie Sci -Fi Under the skinwhere he plays a man’s eating foreigner who breaks down before placing his victim. This movie, which was $ 13 million, gross $ 7 million, but won critical thanks to Johansson’s nude scenes to discuss art compared to abuse.
If nothing else, Johansson deserves a more career award for his desire to take great risks. He rejected safer roles in Mission: impossible – Fallout and Jurassic World continue Ghost in the barkBetting from its potential to redefine him as a sci-fi lace.
So she would have been a natural fit Ghost in the barkLead if he was Japanese.
News: Scarlett Johansson is not Japanese. At the same time, the characters in both anime version and the original manga version of the story are definitely.
Add it in a minute.
Let’s first look at the movie they ended up with, because in the dispute is insulated purely as an entertainment, it’s really good, pretty damn good.
Ghost in the bark It takes place in the future of dystopia, where cybernetic improvements are common and people blend into machines. The regulation appeals to Hong Kong’s skyline, and 1.5 million LEDs were used to create holographic billboards in the city.
The city, the neon -lined city spread, is the center of technological development and corporate power. Production designer Jan Roelfs built 12 practical sets, including 40 feet high Hanka Robotics Lab, a CGI heavy world.
The story focuses on the “ghost” philosophical concept of what they call a person’s consciousness or soul and “shell”, their physical or sometimes cybernetic body.
This concept was simplified by anime that studied transhumanism through discussion of AI to focus on Major’s personal identity crisis.
Scarlett Johansson plays his main subject, his first species: the human brain, which is completely synthetic, after a tragic accident that was alleged to have killed him. In the opening episode of the film, which shows his creation, used the 1200 cgi frame and cost only $ 5 million.
Yes, it’s a bit like Robocop.
But it goes completely in the other direction. Where Robocop satirized company greed, Ghost in the bark Study memory and independence, even though it drops anime’s political sub -text from the monitoring of the government.
Stopping Cyber Terrorists, Big fighting a mysterious hacker, murdering Hanka researchers by manipulating their implants.
Like great researchers, her system disorders – the freadads of unknown memories – are hidden in the past.
His sought to Kuze reveals a conspiracy that is tied to Hankka’s consciousness, forcing the major to question his identity and autonomy.
By mixing Cyberpunk with existential issues, the film is in any case as visually stunning as the 1995 anime speed, but less philosophical.
As an action movie, it is a wild riding and a unique experience, and it is grateful for what it reaches. The movie Tank Battle Final, which creates an anime icon, cost $ 10 million and required 400 additional features.
It was huge production.
If there was no anime instruction, I think there is a very good opportunity we’re talking about Ghost in the bark As a classic action movie. Instead, it is condemned to be quite or unfairly marked forever as a stupid and probably racist.
From the moment when Scarlett Johansson was announced Ghost in the barkThe lead, the world barked, with both faithful fans and people who have never seen anime, but wanted money from its politics, shouting about liming.
As if to show how really helpless they were, the paramount and Dreamworks are rumored to respond to the grossness by considering using CGI’s “breed exchange” technology to show more Asians to show Johansson.
Fortunately, it never happened. Paramount, on the other hand, threw Japanese Actors, such as Takeshi Kitano and Kaori, support the role to increase authenticity, but this is not much suppressed by the dispute.
The description was wrapped in June 2016, and the Paramount betting in the Super Bowl ad $ 250,000 goes on to focus on the film’s visions.
Probably they thought that by the time it came out, the dispute would have gone to their course and the film would be allowed to fail or succeeded solely on whether it was good. The studio predicted a $ 40 million opening weekend at home, Banking Johansson’s Star Power and 3D of the film, which were 30% of ticket sales.
But it cannot be denied that the script did stupid things. The last manuscript, credited to three writers, cut anime’s 20-minute philosophical conversations in less than 5 minutes by replacing them with a straightforward verse.
Story, mixing elements of manga, 1995 anime, and Independent complexHe felt inconsistent for some, not satisfying the presses or interested new viewers. The 2016 test screening got 65/100, less than Paramount’s 80/100, which urged last minute re -formations that cost $ 8 million.
There was a negative amount everywhere, driving out the audience. According to the 2017 Yougov survey, 60% of potential viewers were aware of a calcareous dispute, and 25% said it made them less likely to see the movie.
The film was released on March 31, 2017 and was released for a long time of the top of the Cyberpunk enthusiasm created by Matrix Early 2000s. Big movies there on the opening weekend were Boss baby With a $ 50.2 million opening and Beauty and beast earns $ 90.4 million in the third week.
The film was only opened by $ 19 million and had alienated fans that could help give it a long enough leg to come to a cult hit.
The trailers in the film emphasized the story’s existential themes and its themes that made it unique. Without it seemed that only a new action movie was trying to rob Matrix.
A toxic mix of casting, critical lukewarm, fierce competition, oversized budget and neglect of resonance with either fans or random viewers condemned the film. The film’s 3.9/10 IMDB rating and C+ cinemascore reflected mixed audience reactions, and 40% of ticket buyers mentioned Johansson’s cast as a negative factor.
We probably never get new live activity Ghost in the bark readjustment. And it’s a pity because fans deserve a faithful story. Paramount’s losses killed sequel plans, and no studio has since continued IP, unlike Pokémon or Sonic the Hedgehogthat received successful adaptations.
But maybe Ghost in the bark deserves more credit. After its failure’s failure, we have made much worse anime.
Ghost in the bark Let’s try hard and Hollywood left a ton of money to get it to the event.
Contrast that with raw writing, budget live action, as the terrible Netflix receives Cowboy bebopor the best forgotten 2018 Death adaptation, and it’s hard not to wonder if the world was too hard Ghost in the bark.
Scarlett Johansson goes hard every minute, in Ghost in the barkAnd so does every frame of the movie. He completed 90% of his tricks, training for six weeks with Fight Coreographer John Wick“David Leitch.
It is beautiful and bold, and the action is top notch.
Scarlett Johansson was not the original choice to play Major. The role was first offered Margot Robbie. But Robbie refused to play Harley Quinn SuicideThe choice he is unlikely to complain about.
Maybe it was the correct call but remove the dispute and Ghost in the bark has a much better movie than Suicide.
Could we all prefer a more loyal adaptation? Sure. But looked at separately, Ghost in the bark It’s a well done sci-fi movie. And unlike modern box office revenues such as Captain America: boring new worldAt least it took risks.
