If you’ve seen a Hollywood spin on an anime or manga series, you know all about the whitewashing that tends to come along with it. Japanese roles are typically relegated to the background in favor of white leads, and that’s one thing the producer of …Read more »
If you’ve been wondering where the director of the original Ghost in the Shell comes down on the whole live-action whitewashing debate, let it be known he is definitively on team ScarJo. That’s the word from an IGN interview with Mamoru Oshii, in which he …Read more »
For anyone who doesn’t know the deal, a super-brief summary: the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell film stars Scarlett Johansson, a decidedly non-Asian actor, as Ghost in the Shell ’s heretofore Asian main character. Cue controversy. Controversy that the principals behind the live-action adaptation …Read more »
It’s been about a week since the internet got its first look at Scarlett Johansson as the Major in Paramount Pictures/Dreamworks’ live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell . Since then, reaction to the image has been, in Ghost in the Shell terms, vast and …Read more »
It looks like this thing is really happening, guys. The live-action Ghost in the Shell film starring Scarlett Johansson is set to premiere April 14, 2017. If it sounds kind of absurd to set a release date that far in the future – well, it …Read more »
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