{"id":84345,"date":"2016-02-05T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=84345"},"modified":"2016-02-05T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:46:34","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell-casts-hannibal-star-as-villain-laughing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/ghost-in-the-shell-casts-hannibal-star-as-villain-laughing-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost In The Shell casts Hannibal actor as villain Laughing Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/michael-pitt-lands-villain-role-861820\">THR<\/a>,\u00a0<em><strong>Hannibal\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>I Origins<\/strong><\/em> actor Michael Pitt has been cast alongside Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming <em><strong>Ghost In The Shell<\/strong><\/em> live-action film.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt will be taking on the role of the villainous and vengeful Laughing Man. In the original manga series, the\u00a0character is a corporate terrorist hacker who keeps his identity a mystery to video feeds and cybernetic eyes\u00a0by superimposing an animated logo over his face.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84364\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84364\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Pitt as super-freak Mason Verger in Hannibal Season 2.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1-616x345.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mason-verger-1-510x286.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Pitt as super-freak Mason Verger in Hannibal Season 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joining Pitt and Johansson is Pilou Asbaek (<em><strong>Lucy<\/strong><\/em>), who will be playing Batou. <em><strong>Snow White And The Huntsman<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0Rupert Sanders\u00a0is directing the film and Ari Arad (<em><strong>Iron Man<\/strong><\/em>), Avi Arad (<em><strong>The Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0and Steven Paul (<em><strong>Ghost Rider<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0are producing it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ghost In The Shell<\/strong><\/em> fans have been waiting for the film for a loooong time, so it&#8217;s great to get some other news than just &#8216;Scar Jo&#8217;s supposed to be in it&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ghost In The Shell<\/em> is in cinemas from 31 March 2017. Get all the latest science fiction news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4097\/s\/scifinow-issue-115\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghost In The Shell has finally cast its part-robot antagonist <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":84370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[1128],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/wallpaper-749633.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}