Dreamworks Studios and Walt Disney Pictures have moved the release date of their movie adaptation of 'Ghost in the Shell'. Instead of having a 2017 Easter release weekend, the movie which centers on an elite team of law enforcement agents in a post-cyber punk future Japan will now have an earlier debut in March 31, 2017.
Avengers' alum and Lucy star Scarlett Johansson will feature in 3D big screen reworking of Masamune Shirow's iconic Japanese manga series. The 30-year-old actress has already been reported to be quite ecstatic with the start of the movie's principal photography who was said to be offered a whopping $10M for the upcoming project.
Ghost in the Shell was first introduced to the public in 1989 by Japan-based publishing company Kodansha. The move then gave birth to two additional manga copies (Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor), three anime films (Ghost in the Shell, Innocence, Shin Gekijoban), two TV series (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), four video games (Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex, Stand Alone Complex PSP, Ghost in the Shell Online) and and OVA re-imagining via Ghost in the Shell: Arise.
The shift of Ghost in the Shell's original slot for their release date is probably attributed to the recently announced schedule of Fast and Furious 8. Ghost in the Shell will also open a week after Lions Gate Entertainment's The Divergent Series: Allegiant Part 2 and the still untitled reboot of The Smurfs.
In related news, Johansson wasn't originally tapped to play the lead role in Ghost in the Shell. The project was first offered to The Wolf of Wall Street's Margot Robbie. Talks with the actress somehow fizzled out as Robbie was linked to play Harley Quinn in the Suicide Squad.
Ghost in the Shell will also be fronted by the creative nucleus of Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders and Reluctant Fundamentalist writer William Wheeler.
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