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Ghost in the Shell Live-Action Film Gets Tribute Manga in Young Magazine
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DreamWorks and Paramount's Ghost in the Shell live-action film starring Scarlett Johansson opens in Japan on April 7. To celebrate the film's opening, Monthly Young Magazine published a one-shot by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex manga creator Yū Kinutani. The one-shot is titled "A Day in the Life" and follows the sniper Saito and his time as a mercenary before his left eye and left arm were replaced with cybernetic implants. It also reveals the mission where he first met Motoko.
The one-shot is included in January issue of Monthly Young Magazine which went on sale on Monday.
Kinutani's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex manga adaptation launched in 2009. Kodansha published five compiled book volumes for the original series, and released the fourth and final compiled volume of its follow-up, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man, on December 6. Kodansha Comics published the original five-volume series in North America.
Scarlett Johansson stars in the film as the Major, and Pilou Asbæk (Lucy) plays Batou. Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) plays the Laughing Man. Director, comedian, and actor Beat Takeshi (also known as Takeshi Kitano) plays the Public Security Section 9 founder and chief Daisuke Aramaki.
Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is directing the film. Jonathan Herman (Straight Outta Compton) reworked the earlier drafts of the script written by William Wheeler (Hoax, The Reluctant Fundamentalist) and Jamie Moss (Street Kings). Weta Workshop and its co-founder Richard Taylor are working on the film.
The anime studio Production I.G pitched the rights for Masamune Shirow's original cyber-police manga on behalf of the manga's publisher Kodansha in 2007, and DreamWorks acquired the live-action film rights in 2008. Ari Arad (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), Avi Arad (formerly of Marvel Studios as well as of the Spider-Man and X-Men movie franchises), and Seaside Entertainment's Steven Paul (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) are producing. The executive producers include Michael Costigan (Prometheus), Jeffrey Silver (Edge of Tomorrow, 300), Tetsu Fujimura (Tekken), and Production I.G founder and head Mitsuhisa Ishikawa.
Source: Comic Natalie
