Ghost In A Shell Release Date, Cast News: Movie Premiere Date Revealed, Scarlett Johansson to Star
Unlike the fate of most live action adaptations of anime/manga series, "Ghost In A Shell" seems to be faring better in terms of development. It has now gone past the stage of early development as the film recently signed on a lead star and more recently, Walt Disney Pictures has announced the film's release date. According to a Deadline report, Disney announced that the movie will be released on March 31, 2017, two weeks ahead of its original release date of April 14.
The new release date will pit the movie against Sony Picture's animated reboot of "The Smurfs," the report said.
The "Ghost In A Shell" live action movie will be in 3D and will star '"The Avengers" Scarlett Johansson who stars as Black Widow. The lead role was earlier offered to Margot Robbie, who had to drop out because of her role as "Harley Quinn" in another movie, "Suicide Squad." Johansson is seen by most reviewers as the best actress for the role, according to several reports.
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The movie is being produced by DreamWorks, under Disney Pictures. Initial plans for the adaptation took off after DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg got the rights to the adaptation in 2008. Producers include Avi Arad and Steven Paul with a screenplay to be written by Jamie Moss. Moss was then replaced by Laeta Kalogridis in 2009. In 2014 however, another screenwriter, William Wheeler, was identified, along with the films' director, Rupert Sanders.
"Ghost In A Shell," also called Mobile Armored Riot Police, will be based on an original manga series by the same name. It later on grew to be a Japanese media franchise that spawned several animated adaptations and animated feature films. The manga series first serialized in 1989 , follows the story of a fictional counter-cyberterrorist organization called Public Security Section 9.
The lead character is Major Motoko Kusanagi and the story is set in mid 21st century Japan.The original manga series was published from April 1989 to November 1990. It was followed with several other stories published between 1997 to 2003.
