Not sold

The first teaser trailers are out for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Masamune Shirow's classic manga Ghost in the Shell. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the film producers' decision to cast Scarlett Johansson in the main role, and I can't imagine that these tiny glimpses will do much to quiet those criticisms. The argument in favor of Johansson's casting has been that this version is a new, international take on Ghost in the Shell, but it looks like they're still hitting the Japanese source material pretty hard.