Control and Maleficent
actor Sam Riley has entered negotiations with DreamWorks to star opposite
Scarlett Johansson in Rupert Sanders (Snow White And The Huntsman) upcoming "adaptation"
of Masamune Shirow's iconic sci-fi manga, Ghost in the Shell.
Riley negotiations
are for him to play The Laughing Man, a J.D. Salinger-obsessed criminal mastermind
intent in wiping out Hanka Robotics breakthroughs in cyber technology. The
Laughing Man first appeared in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV
series.
Johansson is set to
play Major Motoko Kusanagi, the team leader of a counter-cyberterrorist
organization called Section 9 tasked with The Laughing Man case. Pilou Asbæk who worked with Johansson
on Lucy will play Batou, the team's heavy hitter.
Ghost
in the Shell is expected to go into production early next year in New Zealand
for a March 31, 2017 release.
Source - Deadline
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