A lot of you may remember the the Avatar casting debacle, in which the entire cast of a show inspired by, designed around, and in homage to various Asian and Inuit cultures, was whitewashed. Initial announcement includes: some random white kid from Texas they found at a martial arts contest as Aang, and Jesse McCartney as Zuko ( Read more... )

Cast (OF FAIL) for M Night Shyamalan's Avatar Movie

For the love of whatever deity you hold dear, this is made of more kind of fail than I can articulate. Luckily, rawles has done so for all of usWatch out for comments in the casting article -- there appear to be people trying to out-fail Shyamalan. Although, given where his credibility's been ( Read more... )