A short article, but it looks like one of the entertainment industries most well known Japanese American actors, George Takei, is putting out his two cents on the current short list of actors to star in the live action adaption of Akira.

"The Last Airbender" does not open in the United Kingdom until next Friday, August 13th. This is an opportunity for us--especially folks who live in the UK-- to ensure that UK film critics are aware of the way "The Last Airbender" discriminated against actors of color ( Read more... )

After reading so many articles based on M. Night's faulty understanding of the issues at hand, it's nice to see an article that actually gets the history that M. Night seems to keep overlooking ( Read more... )

White actors snagging minority roles causes furor By Lisa Respers France

Article focuses more on the casting controversy surrounding Angelina Joelie as Cleopatra, but it has a fairly decent mention of The Prince of Persia and The Last Airbender.

Important bit to note:

Fans recently cried foul at the casting of Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia ( Read more... )

Check it, folks! The Associated Press interviewed Racebending.com and MANAA earlier this month and the results are now online. If you're on Twitter, be sure to give it a retweet.


Critics: 'Airbender' & 'Prince' were 'whitewashed' (AP)


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Front page of the Sunday LA Times Calendar section!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/05/racebending.html

Last week, BACK STAGE magazine - a major publication targeting actors in the United States - interviewed Racebending.com and Guy Aoki of MANAA. Today their writeup of The Last Airbender film controversy went live:

Airbent Out of Shape

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Today, the Moviefone- Cinnematical blog asks its readers:Do You Care About the 'Last Airbender' Casting Controversy?

"I don't have a very good sense of how people in the broader cinephile community (i.e. folks who are neither activists nor die-hard Airbender fans clamoring for a faithful adaptation) feel about this issue. Does Paramount's approach ( Read more... )

On April 20th, 2009, Frank Marshall twittered:
The casting is complete and we did not discriminate against anyone. I am done talking about it.

Today, nearly a year later, Marshall contacted UGO.com in response to Michael Le of racebending.com “to clarify something that seems to be a central issue in these discussions.”

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Thanks to your comments, the Los Angeles Times is finally taking notice of the casting controversy. Today, they even featured the comments about the controversy on their comments blog! 'The Last Airbender' is causing a casting commotion.

Jevon Phillips (who also writes for Hero Complex) writes:

A story touting East Asian and Inuit characters ( Read more... )