Pilou Asbæk as "Batou"

In the live-action feature film adaptation, the character of cyborg "Batou" is played by Danish actor Johan Philip "Pilou" Asbæk, and thanks to paparazzi-snaps via HK01 + Apple Daily (bywayof JoBlo), we get to see the white-hair gent in character and on-set, sporting a crew cut, looking like his 1995 anime-self (The pony-tail is in the "Stand Along Complex" animated series), looking very much like a "greasy" European gangster or underling, IMHO…

"Batou" to me, has always been the subtle and stoic badass character, who has a soft-spot for the Major, but will kick anyone else's asses otherwise! Hope the film character can hold his own, instead of being a sidekick, IMO.

… what is "missing" here is his "signature" (well, at least to me) cyborg-eye "attachments"…

WHO-IS: "Batou (バトー Batō?) is a main male character in the Ghost in the Shell series, the second-best melee fighter in Section 9, and is the second in command under Major Motoko Kusanagi. While his name is officially romanized as "Batou", in some copies of the first film's subtitles and credits, it is spelled "Bateau" (the French word for "boat")."