Scarlett Johansson’s latest role as Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg-human special-ops officer in the upcoming live-action remake of the Japanese manga series Ghost in the Shell, has us all a little excited.

We caught the trailer — and a look at the actress in a skintight ninja suit and a jet-black bob — during the season-two finale of Mr. Robot, and, all criticism of “whitewashing” notwithstanding, the film looks pretty fucking cool.

Yeah, yeah, so she’s been named “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire — twice. She’s also Hollywood’s top-grossing actress of all time. But what we love most about the de-lovely Johansson is her ability to shift so effortlessly between superhero badass (most recently in Avengers: Age of Ultron),... Read More