One of the most iconic scenes from the Ghost in the Shell anime film sees its main character, Major Motoko Kusanagi, stripping off her clothes and dropping from the top of a massive skyscraper to assassinate a target, all while seemingly fully nude. After her assassination attempt is successful, it's revealed she's not actually naked, but rather wearing a thermoptic suit that allows her to become invisible, getting away without a trace. The thermoptic suit is a staple of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, but anime has an easier time getting away with having its lead character move around seemingly unclothed and invisible than a live action movie starring Scarlett Johansson does. The filmmakers of 's Ghost in the Shell adaptation knew from the start that they wanted to include the thermoptic suit in their movie, but it was just a matter of adapting it for the big screen in a way that stayed true to the source material while also working with MPAA regulations. The solution was to design a look that made it clear Major was wearing a suit while also giving off the effect of her being nude.


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Please refresh the page and retry. T he first full trailer for Ghost in the Shell, which stars Scarlett Johansson as a crime-fighting cyborg, has been released. Directed by British director Rupert Sanders, Ghost in the Shell is the first live-action remake of the well-loved Japanese anime comics of the same name. A crime thriller film, it follows Johansson, who plays a one-of-a-kind human-cyborg as she battles criminals and extremists and leads an elite task force to battle a new nemesis. H er performance has been approved, however, by Mamoru Oshii, who directed the anime film version of Ghost in the Shell. Sam Yoshiba, a director at Kodansha, the company that holds the rights to the series, said Johansson was "well cast. She has the cyberpunk feel. And we never imagined it would be a Japanese actress in the first place T he trailer shows that the film has taken influence from the original series, with Johansson as Major leaping between skyscrapers in a futuristic Japanese alternative reality. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.
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