Getting over the silly description given to this project (kind of hard to imagine a 2D live-action movie), Variety broke the news that the Ghost in the Shell manga / anime series will be adaptated into a live-action movie by Steven Spielberg's company DreamWorks. A movie which, obviously enough, will feature a certain amount of CG imagery, which would explain the pleonastic association of "3D" and "live-action".

Anyway, there's no point in getting over-hyped about this just yet, even if Spielberg himself would direct the movie adaptation (which is in no way official, at this time); and even though he claims that "Ghost in the Shell is one of [his] favorite stories". Keep in mind that we are talking about Hollywood here, and I seriously doubt that anyone there can adapt a Japanese franchise into anything other than a 3D pile of live-action crap. Like that future Akira movie announced a couple of months ago, most probably.