What drew you to the ALEXA 65?

I think the ALEXA 65 interested me for several reasons. Firstly, I wanted to do something that had a different kind of visual quality to it, and didn't resemble everything else I was looking at. I was also very aware of all the different release platforms we would be working with: IMAX, HDR and standard projection. It was really about capturing in a future-proof way because I want this film to remain relevant and not look dated in a few years' time, so I needed to start with the most advanced technology available.

Before this film I had used the ALEXA 65 for a Halo commercial, although it was very early days for the camera so we shot side-by-side with a 35-format ALEXA. That process really highlighted the inherent qualities of the larger format, one of which is that it flattens perspective. For "Ghost in the Shell" this was interesting because I was thinking about how to translate anime and manga into live action, and a lot of the original artwork from the anime uses wide-angle frames, but drawn without much distortion, which suited the large image area and flattened perspective of the ALEXA 65.