Hollywood has had a long history of screwing up Japanese anime adaptations by either making the storyline too convoluted for mainstream audiences to understand or too specific for fanboys. When it was announced that the beloved anime film, Ghost in the Shell, was getting a live action adaptation, it was met with equal amounts of excitement and criticism, mostly from casting a white actress for a character that’s been traditionally Japanese. However, the excitement of seeing the iconic sci-fi world unravel in live action was too good to ignore.
After a series of teasers that got us excited, we’re now finally seeing a full length trailer of the upcoming film. Starring Scarlett Johansson as Major, a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid, the film will follow her through an action packed journey in leading the elite task force Section 9. The original film is not only considered to be one of the greatest anime films of all time, but its had a remarkable influence over films that have followed. We’ll have to wait and see if the filmmakers have done this property justice when it opens in theaters March 31, 2017, but judging from the trailer above, it looks like it has the potential to be the very first successful Japanese anime adaptation.