Disney slates Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson for April 2017; they also moved Jon Favreau's Jungle Book to another April.
NewsIt is time for some reshuffling at the House of Mouse where the studio is moving around several hotly anticipated films for the next few years, not least of which includes Ghost in the Shell.
Updating their release schedule, Walt Disney Pictures announced that they are opening Ghost in the Shell (under the DreamWorks and Touchstone banners) on April 14, 2017. The anime adaptation sci-fi actioner recently made waves with the announcement that Scarlett Johansson, an official action star after The Avengers and Lucy, will star in the lead role of the Rupert Sanders’ second film (he previously directed Snow White and the Huntsman). This also puts it slab in the middle of an April that is increasingly looking like its part of the summer movie calendar since an unnamed Universal Monster movie opens a week after the film, and WB’s Pacific Rim 2 from director Guillermo del Toro opens one week prior to Ghost in the Shell.
Disney also announced the release date for David Lowery’s remake of Pete’s Dragon with Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard. That film is now opening on August 12, 2016. Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book has also moved off of its October 2015 release date for April’s newly evergreen pastures—April 15, 2016 to be exact.
