First Picture of Scar. Jo. as Major Kusanagi in GitS Movie

[Paragon Fury]

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-look-scarlett-johansson-in-anime-adaptation-ghost-in-the-shell-20160414

So the first picture of Scarlett Jo. as Major Kusanagi in the live-action Ghost in the Shell film has been released and...I...I....

NO.

NO.

THAT ISN'T EVEN CLOSE. TO ANY INCARNATION. AT ALL.

I was holding out some hope they could get closer with make-up + effects...but no. Apparently not.

 

[Erttheking]

I've never seen Ghost in the Shell, but I can compare pictures.

http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/91/71/9171cfbba2b531d557e27ade224fba76.jpg

Yeah I don't see it. For god's sake, the hair isn't even the right color. Are they adapting the anime/manga for a movie but they aren't willing to have a main character with purple hair?

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Yup, that's about what I expected. The same taxidermy dead-eye look she always has, where you're not sure if she's blind, a vegetable or had so much botox that she literally can't blink anymore.

I wouldn't be surprised if Scarlet turned out to be a hyper-advanced Speak N' Spell and they write the script out on punch-cards and insert them through her back and then she just starts talking and acting out the script.

And when its done she just falls limp, dead glassy eyes staring straight ahead, mind completely blank, waiting for the next punch card.

 

[Fox12]

Eh, looks fine to me. What did people expect? Full purple anime hair? How would that work in live action? Besides, it's not like the anime was a perfect adeptation of the source material either.

I'll wait to see the script/trailer. Of course, there hasn't been a good anime adeptation so far, so my hopes aren't exactly high.

 

[The Philistine]

Not a great angle, but the hair is not nearly big enough or purple enough. At first I thought she was wearing a tarp, but I guess that's supposed to be the Major's jacket?

 

[DefunctTheory]

It's about as good as it was gonna be. I'd be hard pressed to take a real life one-for-one version of the major seriously, with that 80's big hair and the ridiculous color that only works on the animated, massively simplified scale.

Shame about the white washing and all, but luckily I'm not invested in GitS, and probably wouldn't have seen it one way or another. So I can only get so upset.

 

[madwarper]

So the first picture of Scarlett Jo. as Major Kusanagi in the live-action Ghost in the Shell film has been released and...I...I....

have no problems with this. Why? Because, there's a perfectly reasonable in-universe explanation for why she doesn't look the exact same as other iterations.

IT. IS. NOT. THE. SAME. SHELL.

We all know where the name Ghost in the Shell comes from... Right?

Yeah I don't see it. For god's sake, the hair isn't even the right color.

They did get the hair color right. Black is black.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Looks fine.

I'm still wondering what her actual name is going to be. She's supposed to be Matoko Kusanagi, but she obviously doesn't look Japanese, so how are they going to get around that? Are they just going to call her 'the Major' and forego her name entirely, are they going to call her 'Kusanagi' and hope her Japanese esque hairdo will sell it, or are they going to pull an 'Edge of Tomorrow' and just give her a Western name?

Anyway, I have no horse in this race, so whatever happens happens.

 

[Dansen]

Yup, that's about what I expected. The same taxidermy dead-eye look she always has, where you're not sure if she's blind, a vegetable or had so much botox that she literally can't blink anymore.

I wouldn't be surprised if Scarlet turned out to be a hyper-advanced Speak N' Spell and they write the script out on punch-cards and insert them through her back and then she just starts talking and acting out the script.

And when its done she just falls limp, dead glassy eyes staring straight ahead, mind completely blank, waiting for the next punch card.

Thats a bit intense. Did Scarlet Johansen murder your family and make you watch?

So the first picture of Scarlett Jo. as Major Kusanagi in the live-action Ghost in the Shell film has been released and...I...I....

have no problems with this. Why? Because, there's a perfectly reasonable in-universe explanation for why she doesn't look the exact same as other iterations.

IT. IS. NOT. THE. SAME. SHELL.

We all know where the name Ghost in the Shell comes from... Right?

Yeah I don't see it. For god's sake, the hair isn't even the right color.

They did get the hair color right. Black is black.

She actually looks pretty close to the major in that picture you chose. Are we getting a trailer soon? A whole bunch have been dropping lately.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Eyeah.... it's not doing it for me and it isn't the hair nor the colour of it! It's just her face that is putting me off. To me she kinda look more like Ramona Flowers if she changed her hairstyle abit!

EDIT- No suprised the shitstorm has arise (heh) from it
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/15/scarlett-johanssons-role-in-ghost-in-the-shell-ignites-twitter-storm

EDIT 2- This guy bring up a good point that casting her as Motoko is more bad than good than a simple whitewash
https://twitter.com/jontsuei/status/720803388355530753

 

[Tayh]

As a fan of GiTS, I really hope this film is going to bomb, just so Hollywood can stop ruining it.
And why does everyone love Scarlett Johansson so much? I've literally never seen her in a good role. I don't know if her bland performance is down to her being given poor roles or if she simply is like that.

Sometimes I wish there was a better way to protest a movie than simply boycotting it.

 

[Saelune]

I don't really care if real life adaptations of anime are filled with non Asians...when ethnicity doesn't matter. However Ghost in the Shell is very much about world politics in a cyber-punkish future, with the US in a certain way that only the US could be, and the events taking place in Japan that is in a way specific to it. So yeah, location and ethnicity kind of does matter. I'm not really blaming Scarlet, I'm just assuming the whole thing is borked from page 1. And honestly, ethnicity aside, I think she would be fine as the Major.

Edit: I get it, shes a robot. Ethnicity, nationality, whatever. Semantics.

 

[Asita]

I don't really care if real life adaptations of anime are filled with non Asians...when ethnicity doesn't matter. However Ghost in the Shell is very much about world politics in a cyber-punkish future, with the US in a certain way that only the US could be, and the events taking place in Japan that is in a way specific to it. So yeah, location and ethnicity kind of does matter. I'm not really blaming Scarlet, I'm just assuming the whole thing is borked from page 1. And honestly, ethnicity aside, I think she would be fine as the Major.

Location and nationality certainly. Ethnicity...not so much. Major Kusanagi's body is fully cybernetic and consequentially isn't even sure if she actually has any humanity left (or if she had just been given false memories to make her think she was human). Her ethnicity is about as artificial as Clayface's.

 

[Saelune]

I don't really care if real life adaptations of anime are filled with non Asians...when ethnicity doesn't matter. However Ghost in the Shell is very much about world politics in a cyber-punkish future, with the US in a certain way that only the US could be, and the events taking place in Japan that is in a way specific to it. So yeah, location and ethnicity kind of does matter. I'm not really blaming Scarlet, I'm just assuming the whole thing is borked from page 1. And honestly, ethnicity aside, I think she would be fine as the Major.

Location and nationality certainly. Ethnicity...not so much. Major Kusanagi's body is fully cybernetic and consequentially isn't even sure if she actually has any humanity left (or if she had just been given false memories to make her think she was human). Her ethnicity is about as artificial as Clayface's.

You know what I meant.

 

[madwarper]

I don't really care if real life adaptations of anime are filled with non Asians...when ethnicity doesn't matter.

So... You take issue with Japan's live action adaption of Attack on Titan?

with the US in a certain way that only the US could be, and the events taking place in Japan that is in a way specific to it.

What does the US have to do with anything?

Of the United States of America, the Russo-America Alliance and the American Empire, only the latter has any role in global politics.

Spoiler

So yeah, location and ethnicity kind of does matter.

You do understand what the "Shell" part of Ghost in the Shell refers to?

Since Motoko Kusanagi has an entirely synthetic body, her cyber-brain "ghost" can inhabit any "shell" she chooses to. This is not that case that she was born in Japan, therefore she must appear to be of Japanese decent.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Well, maybe there is some hope for the life-action movie.

Emphasis on maybe however. GITS is one of my all time favorites so I really hope this life action movie can do it justice.

 

[Saelune]

I don't really care if real life adaptations of anime are filled with non Asians...when ethnicity doesn't matter.

So... You take issue with Japan's live action adaption of Attack on Titan?

with the US in a certain way that only the US could be, and the events taking place in Japan that is in a way specific to it.

What does the US have to do with anything?

Of the United States of America, the Russo-America Alliance and the American Empire, only the latter has any role in global politics.

Spoiler

So yeah, location and ethnicity kind of does matter.

You do understand what the "Shell" part of Ghost in the Shell refers to?

Since Motoko Kusanagi has an entirely synthetic body, her cyber-brain "ghost" can inhabit any "shell" she chooses to. This is not that case that she was born in Japan, therefore she must appear to be of Japanese decent.

I don't like Attack on Titan, so I don't know what you are referring to. And my point is, this isn't some fantasy world, this is earth, our earth, but in a fictional future. So where what happens matters. Are they going to say its still in Japan? Are they going to flip the roles? I haven't watched Ghost in the Shell in awhile though, so there may be details I'm forgetting or missing. And I just used ethnicity, didn't realize everyone was going to focus on that word. Hard to really tell in an anime. Doubt she was like "I'm gonna be white now though" but I don't think that was ever a point for her.

 

[Bobular]

Looks to me more like they're going with the Arise version of the major.

When I first saw it I thought she doesn't look anything like the Major, but then the more I look at it I can sort of see it. Strangely enough that is the same reaction I had when I first saw the Arise version, so I think its alright for now. We'll see what its like when an actual trailer comes out.

 

[madwarper]

I don't like Attack on Titan, so I don't know what you are referring to.

That the fact that the majority (every single character, but Mikasa) of the cast is of European decent is a major fucking plot point. Including the fact that those of oriental decent have been purposefully breed out of the gene pool by the royalty.

That was ignored when the live action adaptation had a fully Japanese cast.

Are they going to say its still in Japan?

As you saying the American Empire wouldn't have assets in Japan? The AE has signed a security pact with Japan, and are trying to use espionage to co-opt the "Japanese miracle" technology, which safely contains the radioactive particulates released by nuclear weapons.

Hard to really tell in an anime. Doubt she was like "I'm gonna be white now though" but I don't think that was ever a point for her.

Who knows? Batou tells her to switch to a male model so she's taken more seriously. Though, she wants to keep the female model since it leads people to underestimate her capabilities.