Here's your first look at Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell

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After years of swapping talent and time frames, the Ghost in the Shell live-action film has finally begun filming. Paramount Pictures confirmed to ScreenCrush that photography is under way, directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and starring Scarlett Johansson.

Johansson will trade the government sanctioned martial arts and gunplay of Black Widow for the government sanctioned martial arts and gunplay of Major Motoko Kusanagi, top agent of anti-terrorist task force Section 9 - you can see her first official appearance in the image above. She's joined by Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones' Euron Greyjoy) as the gruff, goggle-eyed Batou, Beat Takeshi as Section 9 chief Daisuke Aramaki, Michael Pitt as cyborg revolutionary Kuze, Juliette Binoche as a new character (as far as my GitS knowledge goes, anyway) called Dr. Ouelet, and Kaori Momoi in an unspecified role.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.