ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I shall be looking at the 2017 Hollywood adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, also called Ghost in the Shell directed by Rupert Sanders. The attempt would be to thematically deal with the representation of bodies and spaces in the films with emphasis on the impact and changes that such bodies and space face when Hollywood adapts them for the global market. Sanders has commented that the original Oshii film is philosophically “too heavy” and he wanted to create a “multiplex filler” (Lambie, Den of Geek). Thus, thematically it ventures away from its Japanese source, while diligently borrowing the characters from the franchise and the visual elements from the film which make it pertinent to read the visual politics of the film. Though the film is based on a Japanese source, it constantly uses “the Orient” as a plot device. I also look at how the neoliberal industry creates new paradigms of production, concluding by addressing the “whitewashing controversy” regarding the casting of the film.
