The adaptation of cyberpunk manga is expected to start shooting in January or February for a planned April 2017 release.
- April 22, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Scarlett Johansson gives update on upcoming manga adaptation "Ghost in the Shell". The actress who is attached to play the titular ass-kicking heroine reveals that the new movie is expected to begin filming early next year.
"It's happening," she told Collider while doing a press tour for "Avengers: Age of Ultron". "It will be shooting the beginning of next year, so I think we start production January or February and it's me and Rupert [Sanders]; and that's all I know."
Based on Masamune Shirow's manga of the same name, the feature film follows augmented-cybernetic human named Major Kusanagi who fights criminals in a futuristic cyberpunk world. It is planned to hit theaters across the country on April 14, 2017.
Margot Robbie was linked to the project before Johansson was booked for the lead role. "The Wolf of Wall Street" actress has since been tapped to star in DC Comics adaptation "Suicide Squad".
