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Latest Ghost In The Shell Featurette Puts The Ghost In The Shell

Coming Soon has unearthed a new featurette for Ghost in the Shell, which documents the moment when ScarJo's soul is placed in the shell.

Two weeks out from release, Paramount has lifted the curtain on an all-new featurette for Ghost in the Shell, which essentially places the Ghost in the shell.

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Coming to us via Coming Soon, the two-minute promo features director Rupert Sanders and members of the VFX team discussing the film’s “Shelling” sequence – that is, the moment when Scarlett Johansson’s Ghost is uploaded into a cutting-edge synthetic body. Those familiar with Masamune Shirow’s genre-defining manga series know all too well that it’s this process, one which raises nine kinds of existential questions, where Shirow’s series finds its name, and it’s enough to spark a bona fide identity crisis for ScarJo’s fearless leader.

Known simply as The Major in Paramount’s live-action interpretation, Ghost in the Shell‘s heroine is the driving force behind neo-Tokyo’s Section 9, an elite counter-terrorism unit comprised of the finest mercenaries in the city. Their target? Kuze, a rogue AI that purportedly holds some of the secrets behind The Major’s origin. Initially created in the bowels of Hanka Robotics, Scarlett Johansson’s kick-ass android is under the belief that she (it?) is a valuable resource for the company, but it’s the advent of Kuze that forces our protagonist to question everything she knows.

On March 31st, Ghost in the Shell jump-starts Hollywood’s new wave of big-budget anime movies – Death Note, Alita: Battle Angel and Akira (?) are also cramming up the pipeline. Those scathing allegations of whitewashing have no doubt cast a cloud over Rupert Sanders’ live-action reboot in the build-up to release, but can Paramount’s cyberpunk thriller carve out an audience of its own? Time will tell.