Good news for Rupert Sanders' live action adaptation for 'Ghost in the Shell' has been recently been announced, and that's the fact that the movie's premiere has moved to an earlier date.

While the movie was initially slated to be released on April 14^th, 2017, it has received a two week bump to March 31^st, 2017.

"Avengers: Age of Ultron and Lucy star Scarlett Johansson will headline the adaptation of Masamune Shirow's iconic cyberpunk manga series about the members of a covert ops unit that take on technology-related crime. Ghost in the Shell was famously adapted into an animated feature in 1995," writes Coming Soon.

It's speculated the release date switch was caused by the recent announcement of 'Furious 8' to premiere on April 14^th. This also however puts the 'Ghost in the Shell' adaptation in competition with various other films set to premiere that week.

"The moves put the 3D Ghost In The Shell into an as-yet-unoccupied slot and pits Pete's Dragon against the Lionsgate comedy Bad Grandpa, ... and Universal's thriller Spectral. The live-action/VFX Jungle Book will face off with Universal sequel The Best Man Wedding and Sony's kids-book adaptation Goosebumps," writes Deadline.

The movie is believed to go into production early next year. Johansson's obligations with Marvel will have her starring as Black Widow in next year's 'Captain America: Civil War,' which also goes into production in the next couple weeks.

"I'm excited to work with the Russos again, they have a very different approach to this universe than Joss, just different. It will be interesting to see how they treat all of these new characters. When we were doing Cap 2 the film felt very much like we were doing a kind of '70s style car-chase political thriller; it had that kind of flavor, but they were also dealing with far less characters, the stakes were just different. Now with Civil War it's gonna be interesting to see how they set up this next phase," Johansson states in an interview with Collider.