The First Full Trailer for GHOST IN THE SHELL Is Absolutely Incredible!
Paramount Pictures has unleashed the first full trailer for the live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, and it's freakin' awesome! I was really hoping that this movie would turn out to be great, and judging from this trailer, there's a good chance that fans are going to get a hell of an incredible film. Director Rupert Sanders has done an insane job with the visuals, and from what it looks like, the script is solid as well.
Based on the internationally-acclaimed sci-fi property, “GHOST IN THE SHELL” follows Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, who leads the elite task force Section 9. Devoted to stopping the most dangerous criminals and extremists, Section 9 is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic’s advancements in cyber technology.
When Scarlett Johansson talked about the film with Collider she explained the character she is playing:
“You can’t rip it off the page, it’s totally different. You’re playing it as a – it’s not really a person, but it’s a human brain, it’s someone who’s having this life experience. Which is very different from just ripping stuff off from the manga. One thing that will be very different probably is we’re not making the Frank Miller world where those graphic novels come to life. We have kind of the iconic iconography of the Manga and stuff, but I think people will be surprised at the gritty kind of realness of this. For a person that doesn’t have a heart, it has a lot of heart, I think.”
The rest of the cast includes Beat Takeshi Kitano as Daisuke Aramaki, Juliette Binoche as Dr. Ouelet, Michael Pitt as Kuze, Pilou Asbæk as Batou, and Kaori Momoi. The members of Section 9 are played by Chin Han, Danusia Samal, Lasarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara, and Tuwanda Manyimo.
Ghost in the Shell is set to be released on March 31st, 2017, and I'm seriously excited to see it! This trailer completely sold me on it.