What's perhaps more interesting is that Variety also drops word about the storyline of the upcoming film and, from the sounds of it, the live action feature will be based on the Laughing Man storyline of the popular Stand Alone Complex television spinoff series which, in my opinion, is by far the strongest storyline in the GiTS universe outside of Oshii Mamoru's original film and one which is extremely topical given its underpinnings of radical extremism.
The re-casting of Ghost In The Shell as an entirely white remains a problematic decision based on market economics - lead actress Scarlett Johansson is considered bankable in a way that no Asian actresses are within the Hollywood system - but producers are at least attaching good actors to the Rupert Sanders directed project so there's a chance this may actually succeed with the new audience that it is targeted at. There is, at least, very little chance that it'll be worse than the last couple animated projects to bear the name.