The adaptation of cyberpunk manga is expected to start shooting in January or February 2016 for a planned April 2017 release, reported Ace Showbiz.
The 30-year-old actress is attached to play the titular ass-kicking heroine.
"It's happening. It will be shooting the beginning of next year, so I think we start production January or February and it's me and Rupert Sanders; and that's all I know," Johansson said.
Based on Masamune Shirow's manga of the same name, the feature film follows augmented-cybernetic human named Major Kusanagi who fights criminals in a futuristic cyberpunk world.
Margot Robbie was linked to the project before Johansson was booked for the lead role.
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