Hopefully director Rupert Wyatt (The Gambler, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) is willing to fully commit to what sounds like a game of Mad Libs played inside The Matrix and realize this thing’s fully insane potential. The antagonist is a bitter and vengeful man with a body that is part robot. He has been described in the past as being a “bad guy filtered through the lens of a street artist”. He uses his crackerjack hacking skills to erase his face from digital images, and replace it instead with a logo circled by the Catcher in the Rye quote, “I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes”.
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Scarlett who was long ago roped in as movie’s protagonist will essay the role of Motoko Kusanagi, who is a cyborg cop in task to take down a unsafe hacker.
“Ghost in the Shell’ has been a passion project for DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg”.
Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers, Lucy, Lost in Translation) is starring in the live-action Ghost in the Shell film, and Pilou Asbæk (Lucy) will play Batou.
The Laughing Man first appeared in on the series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The role has gone to Michael Pitt, best known thus far for his work in Hannibal.
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Ghost in the Shell hits theaters on March 31, 2017.
