SCARLETT JOHANSSON TO STAR IN GHOST IN THE SHELL?

Not only is Ghost in the Shell's upcoming Hollywood adaptation edging ever closer to becoming a reality - but it might just have picked up a major star to take the lead role. Better yet, it's the toughest and most ass-kicking action heroine working today: Scarlet Johansson herself. The actress has, according to Deadline, been offered a starring role in the movie, playing the distinctly bad-ass Major Motoko Kusanagi - and, what's more, had $10 million of the shiniest dollars available offered to her in exchange for playing the story's tough-as-nails squad leader - a huge sum for a female action lead in the current movie-salary climate. Which says something pretty terrible about the state of gender roles in Hollywood, but, on the plus side, at least things might just be starting to change for the better.