Ahead of the big trailer debut on Sunday, we have a look behind the scenes of Ghost In The Shell, the new Scarlett Johansson-led action film based on the manga graphic novel of the same name.
Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is directing the 2017 live-action version of the famous Kodansha Comics manga, which also stars the likes of Beat Takeshi Kitano as Daisuke Aramaki, Juliette Binoche as Dr. Ouelet, Michael Pitt as Kuze, Pilou Asbæk as Batou, and Kaori Momoi.
Here’s the source material’s plot, courtesy of MyAnimeList.net.
In the year 2029, advances in Cybernetics allow people to replace nearly all of their body parts and organs with robotics. Through these prosthetics, the weak are made strong, and the dying are given new life. Public Security Section 9 of Niihama City (a fictional setting inspired by Hong Kong), a diverse team of AI, cyborgs and unmodified humans, must investigate cases of corruption and terrorism. Major Motoko Kusanagi has full-body prosthetics, owing to a childhood accident. She, her second in command Batou and information specialist Ishikawa have been assigned an important task: to investigate a hacker known only as “The Puppetmaster.” But as Motoko and her team discover, things are never so simple.
The behind the scenes look comes courtesy of Entertainment Tonight, who have debuted the footage on their You Tube channel. Check it out below.
Ghost In The Shell debuts on March 31st, 2017.
