The Hollywood version of legendary anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson, is coming, whether you like it or not. Now, we can get an idea of what it will actually look like, courtesy of five painfully short teasers launched on YouTube on Wednesday.
As one might expect, the movie looks slick, stylish, and true to the original -- apart from Johansson not being Japanese, which (despite being a half-cyborg) her character Motoko Kusanagi definitely is in the original manga, a fact that caused a fair deal of controversy among fans.
The five short teasers, arranged as a looping playlist on YouTube, reveal as much of the plot as you might guess based on the series' legacy. In the original Ghost in the Shell manga, Kusanagi is a member of Section 9, a counter-cyber-terrorist organization that fights a mysterious adversary. We don't know how much of the new movie's plot will be based directly on Masamune Shirow's manga (or the animated movie, or its sequels, or the TV series -- there's plenty of material to choose from here), but it appears to be following the right path.
The movie, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Takeshi Kitano, Chin Han, Lasarus Ratuere and Juliette Binoche, will hit cinemas on March 31, 2017.
Check out the five teaser-trailers below.
