A new trailer for the re-release, which you can watch below, gives a glimpse of what you can expect when the Blu-ray hits March 24, 2017. That means we won't be getting Ghost in the Shell 3.0, or another cut of Oshii's poorly received 2.0 take that first debuted on Blu-ray in 2008. There's no word on whether or not the edition will have new special features, but the good news for die-hard fans of GitS is that this will be the original cut, one that's remastered in high definition but otherwise unaltered. “The trailer looks really cool, I’m definitely going to watch it.The live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson, is due out on March 31, 2017, but the original animated feature from Mamoru Oshii will be getting an updated re-release a couple of weeks earlier. Anchor Bay Entertainment and its Manga Entertainment subsidiary are bringing about a deluxe, limited collector's edition of the classic film to Blu-ray, with some lucky theaters also getting a screening of the high-definition remastered original film.Īs The Film Stage reports, the Blu-Ray will feature a steelbook casing with exlusive artwork from Mondo.
Ghost in the Shell movie (1995) Teaser Trailer. Blade Runner 2049 With The Ost From Ghost In The Shell (1995) ramirezmichelle28. “Scarlett Johansson is really good casting, and anyway, I can’t think of any Japanese actress who can do action well,” said Teppe Machida, 33. Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Official IMAX Trailer. ‘Ghost In the Shell’ Trailer: Scarlett Johansson Faces the New Villain in Town. “I thought it might end up looking like the kind of crappy version of Tokyo in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but I’m looking forward to seeing this.” They’ve recreated some of the scenes directly from the anime and really captured it,” Koki Kikuchi, 23, told The Hollywood Reporter. Two Japanese long-time fans of the franchise said they were impressed by the trailer, had no issue with Johansson’s casting and will see the film when it is released in Japan in April. “He hasn’t made any comment recently, but he’s not someone who speaks in public these days,” Yoshiba told The Hollywood Reporter. I believe Shirow gave his opinion in the early stages of the process,” said Sam Yoshiba, head of the international business division at Kodansha, the publisher of the original manga and rights’ holder, at the time the remake was finalized. “It has been a very long project, discussions began nine years ago. 'Ghost in the Shell' Trailer Unveiled at Tokyo Launch Party “Well, we won’t know until we can see the whole thing, but looks like we can have higher hopes for this than Dragon Ball,” wrote tutona8, referring to the ill-fated 2009 Dragonball Evolution, an example of a failed Hollywood manga adaptation. This is a completely different level to Japanese live-action films,” wrote to many commenters, expectations were low for the film, but what they have seen so far of Rupert Sanders’ reimagining of the story appears to have exceeded them. “What a difference it makes if you have money. “This looks 100 times better than a Japanese live-action movie would have been…though I’m not saying it’s a good idea to have done a live-action version,” commented Takahiro Watanabe In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking.
Many commenters were full of praise for the striking visuals in the trailer, pointing out that the production values are much higher than they likely would have been for a Japanese film, which are generally made on much lower budgets.
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