A second casting call for The Last Airbender will be held on February 7th in Philadelphia, from 10AM to 4PM at the Independence Hall Visitor Center. If you're a supporter in that area and wish to peacefully protest Paramount Pictures' whitewashing of "The Last Airbender," this post contains all the information we have ( Read more... )

As you know, we've been given a lot of different information about who the correct person at Paramount is to send letters to, and now we've been tipped off by several kind commenters to the fact that Mark Bakshi was actually replaced this fall. We have no idea why, when we called Paramount in late December, we were told he was still president of ( Read more... )

Quoted from The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Be in an M. Night movieDirector-writer-producer M. Night Shyamalan is casting for The Last Airbender, a live-action film from Paramount and Nickelodeon based on the Nickelodeon animated series, shooting here from mid-March through July. (It's set in a world where human civilization is divided into four ( Read more... )

Hope you all had a great holiday! As for us, we're back from our hiatus with news, more addresses, and some things to keep in mind.

Here's what's going on right now:

• We've changed our strategy a bit. We'll be writing to TWO different addresses -- the film's two producers, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, at their production company; and ( Read more... )

It is possible that Paramount Pictures is marking letters "return to sender" and mailing them back unopened. It's too early to be sure, so we're asking everyone to hold off on mailing further letters to Paramount until January 5th. Their offices will likely be closed until then, and it will give us time to gather more information ( Read more... )

Many people have been telling us we shouldn't be offended. And of all the arguments we've been presented with this past week, the most common is also the most surprising: "These characters look white to me."

We considered writing an essay about the ethnic makeup of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but then we realized we could never be as eloquent on ( Read more... )

This entry will be left as it is for the sake of reference. However, we suggest you read more recent entries on this journal, or else go to racebending and Racebending.com, for current news and information regarding this movement.For those who don't already know: The actors who will play the main four characters of "The Last Airbender," the live action ( Read more... )