When I first posted the news about the upcoming release of Ghost In The Shell 2.0 - the polished and tweaked up version of Mamoru Oshii's original Ghost In The Shell picture redone with current animation techniques - a couple days back I expected there to be a certain amount of debate between the pruists who wanted the original left alone and those who were curious to see what the new tech would do to an all time classic. Well, that debate certainly came and here's where it gets a bit more intense: the good folk at German blog AHT have gotten their hands on a trailer for the new version of the film along with a trio of comparison shots that put the old images next to the new.
For the record, I think this project is significantly different from the tinkering with films such as Star Wars for two reasons: One, as far as I know they're not changing content at all, they're just redrawing parts to bring it up to current standards. Two, they're not burying the original version at all, it will be there and available to fans who prefer that version. I love the original version and certainly won't be ditching my copy any time soon but I think this looks pretty damn good as well and will certainly be adding it to my GiTS collection.