Netflix will Produce an Animated Feature of “Ghost in the Shell”, which is to be Aired in 2020

On December 8th, Netflix announced that it would produce “Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045” – animated version of “Ghost in the Shell”. Expected to be aired in 2020, the film will be jointly directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society, ULTRAMAN) and Shinji Aramaki(“Evangelion: Another Impact – Confidential”).

Written by the Japanese comic writer Masamune Shirow, “Ghost in the Shell” is a manga first serialized in Koudannsha’s youth comic magazine “Yanmaga” in May 1989. It tells the story of the secret special force Public Security Section 9 in an era of technology replacing brain in 2029. Through some special methods, The force secretly deals with extraordinary situations that cannot be handled routinely.

In the beginning, the work was not acclaimed by the editors at that time because of the dark tone. However, as the plots develop, words supplemented outside the column and plots with profound connotations struck readers and hit the comic world at that time. topic. In 1995, the work was adapted into a film by the “Geek” of animation industry – Mamoru Oshii, which received unprecedented response. Later, it was adapted into TV animation and so on. Ghost in the Shell was adapted by Hollywood into a movie of the same name in 2017, starring Scarlett Johansson.