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shadydave ([personal profile] shadydave) wrote2009-02-02 09:53 am

Hollywood Casting

So, casting for the upcoming Avatar movie has basically been a whole load of white-washing racial FAIL headdeskery. Which is why it is SO. AWESOME. that Jessie McCartney (yes, the teenybopper singer, SEE WHAT I MEAN?!) is DROPPING OUT and being replaced by DEV PATEL, most famous for being TOTALLY AWESOME in Slumdog Millionaire.

Of course, now we have the problem that the main antagonist is so far the only person of color in the cast, which is obviously a whole 'nother area of racial FAIL headdeskery.

But it's a tiny bit of progress, and so if M. Night Shyamalan can keep from going more crazy and they stop failing so hard at casting, this movie might possibly have a chance at being awesome. Maybe. A bit, anyway.

BUT YAY DEV PATEL. AT LEAST WE CAN HAVE AWESOME ZUKO.

ETA: MORE FAIL. GOOD GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.

[identity profile] imweirdlikethat.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Jesse McCartney was going to be in an Avatar movie. OMG. It's so gross yet I so wish it would've happened at the same time.

[identity profile] shadydave.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's definitely the kind of thing that I would wish upon a cartoon I liked less :D

[identity profile] naturalblue208.livejournal.com 2009-02-03 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
dude, a liveaction Ghost Stories would be pretty awesome.

OHMG i totally just realized where i recognized Amanojaku's voice from!! He sounds like Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch XD

[identity profile] shadydave.livejournal.com 2009-02-03 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
He does! I wonder if it's the same voice actor?