The original Nickelodeon cartoon series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, has a planned sequel in the works. Taking place almost three quarters of a century after the first series. The new avatar is a teen from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra who not only has learned three of the four elements but also appears to be a First Nations/Woman of Colour ( Read more... )

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M. Night on the casting choices for Avatar:

Here's the thing. The great thing about anime is that it's ambiguous. The features of the characters are an intentional mix of all features. It's intended to be ambiguous. That is completely its point. So when we watch Katara, my oldest daughter is literally a photo double of ( Read more... )

All this Avatar bullshit just brings me back to what I said when it started: These are the Ghosts of the Heroes I never had.
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Nope, there's no native kids acting who could maybe have been in avatar. Nope, not at all.

So according to this post by pam_noles_blog there may have been discussion of avatar?

Anyone have details?

So... is anyone surprised that Cherokee actor Wes Studi has been cast in (one or another of the movies called) Avatar as a blue alien?

via newspaper rock.

This comment left on the EW.com site article:

Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:54 PM EST

We were involved in the Pre-Production planning of this film. As soon as we told the producers how horrible the cast was, we were cut off in any say for this film. We put our blood and sweat creating the world of Avatar. Inspired by ( Read more... )

http://www.nativecelebs.com/

A resource for people looking for info on Native American, First Nations and Indigenous actors and actresses. This is the leading resource with links to homepages for your favorite Native American actors and actresses.Because the next person who rolls through ( Read more... )

Big thanks to Ali Wildgoose for making the Bingo pic:


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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.

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