This fan-edited Ghost in the Shell trailer is much better than the original

We've slowly but surely become accustomed to teasers for teaser trailers, and earlier this week Ghost in the Shell took that concept to the nth degree with five 10-15 second videos.

The Vine-like teaser strategy left me pretty underwhelmed, but this fan-edit by YouTuber Tim Gonzales - which cuts all five teasers into a coherent trailer with music from the original soundtrack and clips from the 1995 film - is infinitely better.

The marketing campaign for films like Suicide Squad are great examples of how effective trailers can be when they are skillfully crafted. Indeed, the great first impression that a good trailer can elicit can mean everything for certain cinemagoers, so having the first footage for Ghost in the Shell be five separate, ultra-brief clips feels like something of a misstep.

The good news is that a full two-minute plus trailer probably isn't much further away, so here's hoping it leaves more of an impression.

Directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Michael Pitt, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Kaori Momoi, and Chin Han, Ghost in the Shell is released in cinemas on March 31, 2017.

Images: Paramount

Amon is a contributing editor and columnist for Empire magazine, but is also a Film and TV writer for GamesRadar+, Total Film, and others. He has also written for NME, Composer Mag, and more, along with being a film critic for TalkSport. He is also the co-host of the Fade to Black Podcast, and a video mashup creator. Can also do a pretty good Bane impersonation.