Casting for the Avatar movie

[sarafinapekkala]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/10/first-look-the-cast-of-the-last-airbender/

It's actually even worse than I was expecting. I mean, even most of the commenters to that article are appalled.

Comments

[izzybelbooks]

I'm sure it's just because there are no good Asian actors out there. Right? Really. Honest. Not one Asian actor to be found in all of Hollywood. And certainly none anywhere else in the world.
Besides, if they cast it with real Asians, American audiences wouldn't go see the movie. You know, like how we didn't go see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or any of those other Asian fantasy/adventure movies.
*ugh*

[delux_vivens]

I'm sure it's just because there are no good Asian actors out there. Right? Really. Honest. Not one Asian actor to be found in all of Hollywood. And certainly none anywhere else in the world.

And certainly none who could do Asian martial arts action type stuff. Nope. Not a one.

[darkrosetiger]

Certainly not the actor who voiced Zuko.

[msloserrific]

Duh! Didn't people learn when Goku was cast as a white dude in Dragonball Z?

(Or those Three Ninjas movies? I mean, really. I understood how the grandfather was married to a white woman, and their half-Asian daughter married a white man, but STILL.)

[dragovianknight]

And the upcoming live action version of Akira, which is now set in the US and is rumored to star Leonardo DiCaprio.

::weeps bitter tears::

[tacky_tramp]

Asian people skip adolescence and young adulthood. First they're adorable babies, then they're overachieving children, then they're working at MIT or rolling sushi in a strip mall. Strangebuttrufax.

[ext_59120]

Shit man, Kungfu Hustle? People DID NOT go see that movie, even with subtitles wtf you talking 'bout Willis?

that movie was AWESOME.

[jsl32]

i saw it on dvd, and it was just super.