Wheehoo, Sylia writes essays x.x (sorry everyone)
Also, regarding Ghost in the Shell, 10 years ago I would have been upset if someone mentioned the words "live action remake" (and I was upset, lmao!), but now I really don't know why anyone would get that unhappy about it. As long as they're not encroaching on Oshii's former work and simply trying to copy "Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell film- in live action" in any way, I don't care (and let's face it, with the style of remakes and adaptations nowadays, it's not likely that they'd do that. Also, I think Oshii and Production IG have some rights over his version and I don't think he's that keen on rolling over from past interviews). The thing is, between Masamune Shirow's original manga and his rather different sequel, Mamoru Oshii's landmark films, and Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex for the TV generation, not to mention various videogames, I think we've had a lot of time to get used to the idea of GitS being a large multi-versioned franchise. The Oshii films are their own thing. Stand Alone Complex is it's own thing, despite visual fanservice nods to an 'alternate continuity' of the film world and the closer relationship to the manga world. And the live action film or films, should they go ahead, will be entirely their own thing too, if the director has sense and understands how the franchise works.
I think if people don't like the live film, that's okay. GitS is a rather unusual franchise... A few hardcore manga fans hated the Oshii films, but had to live with them. I love the Oshii films, and had to live with Stand Alone Complex (which is not a bad anime series, it just captured relatively little of what attracts me to the films... like... the philosophical resonance for example, or the stunning designs. But then I know that when Kenji Kamiyama was interviewed, he did say that they were not going to be covering much of the philosophy, so that's fair enough. They are entitled to make their own thing). Now Stand Alone Complex fans are just going to have to get used to seeing a live action thing happen. In the case of GitS, it doesn't mean that the new thing is now going to forevermore define what GitS is in the popular consciousness, anymore than I think Stand Alone Complex takes away from me loving the Oshii films or their importance.
The Motoko character isn't even the same character to me from one version to the next anyway... it's a little painful to say, "I'm a fan of this character" and know that people are probably getting the wrong idea and assuming you mean the current or now most famous version, but that's the way it is and over time it hardly matters (heh, I've been there a lot as one by one all my favourites would get horribly deconstructed and remade
). At the end of the day the only thing you can really go on is a) that you know what you liked, regardless of how the perception of it may be changed by current circumstances and remakes, and b) a major (haha) point of both the Manga and film versions of Ghost in the Shell did concern wanting to 'limit' things, and
being limited by desiring to remain what you are. In both versions, the heroine makes the choice to embrace change and continue to adapt, evolve and expand as the opportunity is presented to her. I think it's appropriate that this franchise would also be free to evolve and make drastic leaps, without fans trying to limit it to the past. Maybe they'll make some bad choices with it, but in the case of GitS, with a key message over chasing evolution (in this case meaning simply 'change'), it's part of the natural process and it shouldn't be a limiting or permanent thing.
(Note- the film also has talk and perhaps warning over chasing evolution like it's instinctive without a second thought... lol, maybe they do lament the process a little bit for it's downsides XD)
Well maybe they'll be a fluke and they won't suck. Or they'll be scrapped during production. 
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Are they not going to use Avatar as the title?