If I were to re-cast The Last Airbender, this would be my choice

Jul 24, 2010 16:59

I recast everyone OLDER, (because it's very difficult for me to go searching for child stars, in an ideal world it would all have been auditions etc, but since this is just fancy.... I don't know any native american actors, so if you have suggestions in that department, feel free to comment.)
The Cast & a VIDEO AUDTION for Aang )

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melusine6619 August 30 2010, 11:33:44 UTC
Those are some interesting choices. Jet Li as the Fire Lord would have been amazing. Jackie Chan as Iroh would have been wonderful as well, plus we'd have had the added bonus of those two together in a movie again. That was another bad idea of Shyamalan's, to go with Indian actors for the Fire Nation. *sigh*

But as you said, it was his idea to do the movie, and for some reason, everyone went along with it. At this point I'm just grateful he wasn't able to get his hands on Lord of the Rings. Goodness knows how atrocious that would have been.

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ice_of_dreams August 30 2010, 12:08:12 UTC
hey, you dropped by. Haha. I'm a huge Jet Li fan, which is why he was cast here.

MNS cast indian actors for the Fire nation? What? I really need to get a copy of the movie and watch it. I haven't because I've been busy with licensure exams, but I will soon.

MNS on Lord of the Rings... bwahahaha. He should stick to dark, thrillers. Avatar is not dark. Is not a thriller, and is not marketed for adults. He's completely out of his league.

And whenever someone criticizes him he goes: well it's making money in Europe. Right. Ugh.

I just watched the trailer and looked at all the bad acting and thought: What the heck was MNS thinking when he said he cast the best actors for the roles? They can't act!!!

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melusine6619 August 30 2010, 12:43:24 UTC
MNS cast indian actors for the Fire nation? What? I really need to get a copy of the movie and watch it. I haven't because I've been busy with licensure exams, but I will soon.

My mistake. There aren't as many as I thought. The actor who played Ozai is actually Maori. Either way, most of the casting choices were just wrong.

Completely out of his league is a perfect description of MNS for this movie.

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azure_orbis August 31 2010, 00:51:21 UTC
I'm going to try to be as diplomatic as I can with this but if it doesn't succeed, please don't take this as personal, okay ( ... )

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ice_of_dreams August 31 2010, 05:52:58 UTC
Nope no offense taken ( ... )

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azure_orbis September 6 2010, 07:00:39 UTC
Thanks a bundle for not biting my head off (not a pleasant experience). And yeah, I get it, it's hard to find actors for roles especially when you're just doing this for a what-if rather than a proper job or something. For the Water Tribe siblings, some people suggested that Dev Patel should play Sokka and the girl who played Yue(?) could play Katara, on looks alone. And I think that could work. Certainly it wouldn't be ideal but better than what was. As for Native American casting, there are a few but most that I could find were adult actors and wouldn't really fit in what is essentially a coming of age story's characters. Although Inuit would be even more proper, but again, another what-if.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents in it and hopefully they won't greenlight a sequel so we won't have to play actor bingo again.

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ice_of_dreams September 7 2010, 04:06:50 UTC
Oh, I understand having very strong opinions on something, so I'm not offended that you have a strong opinion on it.

Yes. exactly. It's a what if and not a proper job :)

I'm more into Dev Patel as a Jet rather than Dev Patel as Sokka, primarily because I don't think Dev Patel could be that much of a slapstick comedy guy haha, not that it showed much in the film anyway.

To have a successful film, the first job order must be to changed M.Night S. haha, if they change him, I'm sure everything will become better.

Yeah that was my problem with Chinese actors too, it's difficult to find teenagers. Of course Taylor Lautner could play one of the water tribe, but honestly, not entirely a fan of the twilight cast. haha. Too dark and gloomy for the Avatar cast. Well he could try spreading his wings here tho. Oh and as a saving grace for Twilight cast (blerg, ewww, and I'm sorry if you like it), all the guys who play wolves are required to show paperwork that they belong to a Native American tribe.

Thanks for your two cents.

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