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Asian-American comic book superhero, Tommy Zhou aka "The Weapon", set to be played by a white guy.
I heard about this last year and it doesn't seem like the movie's picked up any steam so right now the racebending staff's kind of waiting and seeing what comes of it, but I felt this needed to be known about, even if nothing's come of it.
Although it should be noted that last year, both the racebending staff and MANAA talked with Platinum Studios about this and their response was less than polite, "with Platinum Studios's rep flat out admitting they knew and anticipated that the Asian American community would be upset with this casting, but decided to go ahead with it anyway" (from the post). We'll see what comes of this.
I heard about this last year and it doesn't seem like the movie's picked up any steam so right now the racebending staff's kind of waiting and seeing what comes of it, but I felt this needed to be known about, even if nothing's come of it.
Although it should be noted that last year, both the racebending staff and MANAA talked with Platinum Studios about this and their response was less than polite, "with Platinum Studios's rep flat out admitting they knew and anticipated that the Asian American community would be upset with this casting, but decided to go ahead with it anyway" (from the post). We'll see what comes of this.