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[rowanberries]

Sssssso, looks like they're started casting for Avatar: The Cash-in

I'll just... be over here. Hoping this isn't accurate. :(

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[aberration]

My thoughts exactly. I know I had a thought at some point along the lines of "... yeah, I'm only seeing this if all of the actors are Asian."

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Or even most!

SOME, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

[skygiants]

Dude, I was so easy, I would have been cool with any number of non-Caucasian ethnicities for Sokka and Katara! And, you know what, the Fire Nation is half based on Iceland, and there are brown-haired Fire Nation kids (Ty Lee), I could have coped with a few differences in casting. But ALL?

[aberration]

The Northern and Southern Water Tribes seem rather based on Inuit cultures, so... while I'm not sure how many Inuit actors are available, Caucasian actors ... is not working for me. I can see your point about Ty Lee, but for the most part it just seems rather out of place for these characters to all be white.

[skygiants]

Oh, me neither - for Sokka and Katara, I meant that I would have been cool with just about anything but Caucasian, since, yeah, difficulties in finding Inuit actors.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

An Asian version could be awesome. Sammo Hung as Uncle Iro. Jet Lee as the Firelord, Ziyi Zhang as Azula. You could have cameos by all the classic martial arts guys as the rest of the White Lotus dudes.

But then why would they bother when they could make another version of Monkey, or film any number of other mythological stories.

[aberration]

To me it's like - the world itself is already largely a mesh of cultural themes based almost exclusively Southeast Asian cultural traditions with some others, but for the most part, it's an "Asian" version world. Why are there a bunch of white people walking around in it? How is that not weird?

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of someone like Ang Lee or Zhang Yimou taking it and doing a martial arts film with it. However its an American show, so the chances of that happening are pretty much nil.