''They've signed on Laeta Kalogridis for scriptwriting duties''. She's also has a hand in another anime adaptation with her collaboration with James Cameron for Battle Angel Alita where she's listed as a screen writer. Let me just add that the James Cameron Battle Angel Alita project has been scrapped the last I checked. Ghost In The Shell is my favorite series, and I hate to say this but this is probably going to be an ''Epic Fail'' They need to leave this in the hands of where it originated from! The problem is that we as Americans just can't come up with our own ideas so we have to take what isn't ours. Take Cowboy Bebop The Movie for example with Keanu Reeves - another ''Epic Fail'' These are just bad ideas that are going to give the original movie, and the Stand Alone Complex series a bad name, as well as the original Bebop tv series, and Movie. ''Leave it alone''

Umm, this is the original movie right? I honestly couldn't make heads or tails of that film, especially the plot. But I'm in love with the Stand Alone Complex series (which I fully understand, lol). This does feel like a really bad idea though - but you never know....

I wouldn't read to much into this, when it comes down to it, a movie is a movie.  Companies will destroy a small country to get a good story.  I like Ghost in the Shell, if they make a movie, great i'll watch it.  Hate it or like it, in most cases it's just inspired by the original story.  Take the Dragon Ball Z movie, horrible by all expectations, but they took an idea, brainstormed, and created a film.  All I can say is, take a films for what it is.  Weather the Cowboy Bebop movie is Neo acting in a new story, hell, if it's entertaining enjoy.