Posted March 16, 2017
morolf: I doubt any Japanese give a f*** about this. It's just another manifestation of demented US identity politics.
The Chinese certainly don't. This film opens in China at the beginning of April and I talked with one of my Chinese friends about the ruckus it's causing on western social media because Scarlett got cast as the lead. His reaction: "Well, she draws people to the box office, so why not? They also dyed her hair dark." Personally, I have higher hopes for GITS turning out half-way decent than for the new Blade Runner movie (the teaser looked like Asylum-level shit that is somehow even worse than what Something Awful anticipated 8 years ago)