With Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel slated for release next summer, Adam Wingard’s Death Note remake premiering via Netflix in August, James Wan’s Robotech gearing up for pre-production, and Warner Bros. After all, with superhero and comic movies dominating the zeitgeist of mainstream entertainment and earning some of the highest-grossing turnouts of the past two decades, why shouldn’t the same be true for anime movies?Īt least, that’s what some of Hollywood’s biggest studios are thinking, as evidenced by the announcement of not only Ghost in the Shell but several other anime-to-live-action productions just within the past year. The thought process and motivations behind such productions seems easy enough to grasp.

Allegations of whitewashing and a general disregard for the source material have dogged the film’s production for over the past year, raising concerns in the ongoing debate as to whether American filmmakers are equipped at all to the task of adapting foreign cultural properties with respect to their origins.

Much has been said already about the new live-action remake of Ghost in the Shell.