The
Walt Disney Studios' release schedule for 2017 is one movie short.
DreamWorks' Ghost in the Shell has been taken off Disney's 2017 plan and will now be
released by Paramount Pictures, who is co-financing the project starring
Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers) in the lead role, and Pilou Asbæk (Lucy).
The
decision to shift studios comes after Steven Spielberg, who co-founded
DreamWorks, and Disney's production deal ended and the acclaimed filmmaker
moved to Universal Studios.
Rupert
Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) will direct the movie based on Masamune Shirow's iconic
sci-fi manga.
Johansson is set to play Major
Motoko Kusanagi, the team leader of a counter-cyberterrorism 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.
Maleficent actor Sam Riley has
entered negotiations 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.
Ghost in the
Shell is expected to go into production in the near future for a March 31, 2017
release.
Source -
Deadline
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