Perhaps attempting to earn the favor of the masses, director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) stated that he would not whitewash the cast of the live action Akira film if he were given the chance, a hope that many are naturally latching onto to avoid having James Edward Franco or Zac Efron lead the doomed film.
A video courtesy of IGN depicting Taika Waititi’s opinions:
While the movie has supposedly been in production for years, just recently it was revealed that Taika Waititi has been in talks about potentially becoming the movie’s director, stating he’d prefer adapting the graphic novels over remaking the original movie and would cast it with Asian teenagers with “unfound untapped talent.”
Granted, many still are expecting inexplicable changes and a horrible final product simply due to such qualities being synonymous with Hollywood…
I don’t care who plays who, just let the movie be good.
well First, Asians are white, Second, i would rather have an American or European great actor than an average asian one
thank god, tired of seeing those cringy white teens
The question is, is the character’s ethnicity important to the story, if note, who cares. Also, the Japanese would much prefer any white person do the job than a Korean / Chinese
In this case yes. IT is important. Also the setting in Japan also is important.
yea when calling a white guy kaneade or tetsuo, it looks pretty strange
There is a black hockey player named Ho-Sang and I have a Vietnamese friend named Jackson.
I’m sorry but whitewashing is the last thing on my mind at the moment. I’m more concerned of the story being butchered to cut corners. This title is big, too big to those who care and there was hardly a good adaptation of any popular shows so far.