DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures just released a puzzling five micro-teasers of its upcoming film "Ghost in the Shell", starring Scarlett Johansson.
The movie "Ghost in the Shell" is based on the manga series about an elite-cybercrime unit in which Johansson plays as a Japanese woman in the source material.
The actress has been in a controversy for getting the role, since the fans considered the source material to be distinctly Japanese. In the anime version, the Major's name is Motoko Kusanagi.
Despite the fuss on the actress's character, producer Steven Paul thinks that fans won't get disappointed by the international approach of the film.
According to Paul, the cast includes Japanese, British, Chinese and American actors.
"I think we've done the manga comic great honor. As I said, the fans will be very happy, because there's a great respect that's been paid to the manga. We've been very, very careful. Obviously, there's some new imagination, as well. I mean, like anything, when you're making a movie, you've gotta bring your own," he added.
It is directed by Rupert Sanders, who also directed Snow White and the Huntsman.
Other celebrities included in the film are Michael Pitt, Juliette Binoche, Rila Fukushima, Takeshi Kitano, Pilou Asbæk, Kaori Momoi and Yutaka Izumihara.
The five brief teasers don't reveal much about the film other than the action's haunting and otherworldly atmosphere.
"From a shot of a robo-geisha walking down a hallway, to Johansson's cyborg cop Major unplugging herself on a bed and caressing the face of a woman who asks "What are you?" to Takeshi "Beat" Kitano firing a gun and then dumping its empty casings on the ground, these Ghost in the Shell snippets are the definition of a tease, and don't touch upon the film's story, about Major's attempts to locate a nefarious hacker in a future defined by cyber-connectivity. They do suggest, however, that Sanders is aiming to channel his animated predecessor's eerie blend of techno-paranoia, existential dread, and chilly sexuality, all of which comes through loud and clear in these initial promos," Yahoo wrote.
Ghost in the Shell will be out in theaters on March 31, 2017.
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