The Ghost in the Shell movie is apparently real, as the latest reports claim the film will begin production in winter of 2016. Scarlett Johansson is the woman who will take the leading role as the character "The Major."

The movie will begin filming in February of 2016, to be precise, and if all goes according to plan, Ghost in the Shell will hit theaters on April 14, 2017. That's a long way out, but probably the best time due to the amount of big blockbusters that are destined for the 2016 window.

Ghost in the Shell is a film that is based from the popular anime by Masamune Shirow. The casting of Johansson has not gone down well with many fans as they accuse DreamWorks Studios and Hollywood in general of whitewashing. They say this because "The Major" in the anime and manga is well-known to be of Asian descent.

From what we are hearing from fans, they are not pleased with the casting, so right now it is up to DreamWorks to prove Ghost in the Shell is a film that is in the right hands. It will take years for such plans to become a reality, but by then, fans would have simmered down and be more open to the idea of Scarlett Johansson as "The Major."

No doubt in our mind this movie will have a mainly white cast, so fans will just have to accept these changes and move on.

Another film or potential film that is also considered as whitewashing is Akira. The live-action movie based on manga about post-apocalyptic Tokyo has been on-again, off-again for years, and from what we have come to understand, the movie will not have its setting placed in Neo-Tokyo, but Neo-Manhattan instead. Furthermore, the primary characters were reported to be white, and that didn't go down admirably with fans.

Hollywood has gravitated toward comic book movies and is making a ton of money from them. We're guessing that as time goes by, anime titles going the live-action route in Hollywood might become the next big thing after the superhero craze dies down in the coming years.

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