Ghost in the Shell Remake May Have Margot Robbie As The Lead

<p>The live-action&comma; American-made remake of the classic anime franchise <em><strong>Ghost in the Shell<&sol;strong><&sol;em> is currently being developed by Dreamworks with <strong>Rupert Sanders<&sol;strong> &lpar;<em><strong>Snow White and the Huntsman<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&rpar; attached to direct&period; And now it appears that <strong>Margot Robbie<&sol;strong> &lpar;<strong><em>The Wolf of Wall Street<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&rpar; is in talks to appear in the film as presumably the lead character&comma; Motoko Kusanagi&period; The character from the manga&sol;anime series was the major of Section 9&comma; a task force assigned to dealing with severe cyber terrorism&period; Taking place in a futuristic setting where iPhones are essentially built into your brain&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re the most crucial line of defense in a world full of hackers that could easily take over your eyeballs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While there isn&&num;8217&semi;t an official synopsis on what the story for this live-action movie will be about&comma; it is being written by <strong>Bill Wheeler<&sol;strong> and is apparently going to be based on the manga&period; One key story from both the manga&comma; anime movie and anime series was the Puppet Master arc in which a self-aware intelligence seeking to merge with a human mind to procreate takes aim at Motoko&period; So there is a high chance the story could revolve around the Puppet Master&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Margot Robbie<&sol;strong> is currently shooting <em><strong>Tarzan<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>in London&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thewrap&period;com&sol;margot-robbie-in-talks-to-star-in-dreamworks-ghost-in-the-shell-exclusive&sol;">The Wrap<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;