When Scarlett Johansson was cast as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the Hollywood adaptation of "Ghost in the Shell," there was a roar of indignation over hiring a white woman in an Asian role, and the controversy sparked up again when the first photo of Johansson in the role was released. Now, filmmaker and screenwriter Max Landis has just shared his two cents on the whitewashing controversy. Read More »
Based on the Ghost In The Shell anime, Twitter reacts to Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the first look photo! Read More »
Months after Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead of the cast the 2017 live-action adaptation of classic anime 'Ghost in the Shell,' Motoko Kusanagi has found her match. Funny Games actor Michael Pitt will play the film's villain, the Laughing Man; who is a part-robot character obsessed with Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger. Read More »