‘Ghost In The Shell’ Movie Poster: Hey Kids, Do You Like Anime?
Hey kids! Do you like anime? Do you hate the idea of the Ghost In The Shell movie? Well, let us win you over with this poster! Is it, is it working?!
Based on Masamune Shiro’s seminal cyberpunk manga, as well as director Mamoru Oshii’s subsequent anime, the live-action film stars Johansson as a cyborg-human hybrid who leads Section 9, a task force assigned to stop cyber-criminals. Now they face a new enemy devoted to destroying Hanka Robotic’s artificial intelligence technology.
For his live-action adaptation, director Rupert Sanders (“Snow White and the Huntsman”) has drawn inspiration from across the franchise, which spans manga and animated television and film, and nearly three decades. “This isn’t the shit Hollywood version,” he said.
The result has met with the approval of Shirow, who recently revealed, “Scarlett Johansson playing Motoko from beginning to end has gone above and beyond my expectations for the role. I’m sure this will be the most gorgeous film in the series so far.”
Opening March 31, “Ghost in the Shell” also stars Pilou Asbæk, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, Kaori Momoi, Rila Fukushima, Chin Han, Danusia Samal, Lasarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara and Tuwanda Manyimo.