The company Paramount Pictures unveiled a photo of Scarlett Johansson in the image of Major Motoko Kusanagi from the movie "Ghost in the Shell", which caused severe criticism in social networks. The creators of the picture were accused of racism and "whitening" the characters of the Japanese manga.
Argument for shooting in the form of a solid fee
Negotiations with the Hollywood actress have been conducted since last autumn and, despite doubts from Scarlett Johansson, a solid fee of $ 10 million helped her to finally decide on priorities. She refused to participate in the screen version of the comic "Squad of suicides" and rushed into the work on the film "Ghost in the Shell".
The famous manga was created in 1989, thanks to the success of the comics in Japan, shot three feature films and an animated series. In the center of the story line "Ghost in armor" members of the elite unit to combat cyber-terrorism. The action takes place in 2029, the development of cyber technologies leads to arbitrariness on the part of hackers and their interference in the policies of the states of the world. The division of the "9th Division" headed by Major Motoko Kusanagi becomes the head of public security.
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The accusation of racism did not prevent the shooting of "The Ghost in the Shell"
Paramount Pictures opened the veil of filming and the other day showed footage from the site. After the publication of the first photo of Scarlett Johansson in the image of Major Motoko Kusanagi, a wave of disturbances in social networks began. In the role of major fans saw and see only an actress of Asian descent, the choice of producers is incomprehensible to them. The most active fans of the manga even created an electronic petition against participation in the filming of the Hollywood actress. Despite the number of 74 thousand signatures, Scarlett Johansson fully completed the shooting, and soon we will see the result of the American vision of the Japanese comics.
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