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Asian-American comic book superhero, Tommy Zhou aka "The Weapon", set to be played by a white guy.
I heard about this last year and it doesn't seem like the movie's picked up any steam so right now the racebending staff's kind of waiting and seeing what comes of it, but I felt this needed to be known about, even if nothing's come of it ( Read more... ) -
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OH MY GOSH WE FINALLY GET NEWS ABOUT AVATAR: THE LEGEND OF KORRA
Associated Press
Wall Street Journal
Official Press Release
racebending post where we are all REALLY SUPER EXCITED
WSJ interviews Mike and Bryan (aka Bryke)It's going to take place about 70 years after the events of ATLA, it's going to star a hot-headed Southern Water Tribe girl ( ( Read more... ) -
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Shyamalan continues to be classy. So classy, in fact, that the following links come with precautionary trigger warnings for mention of and comments about suicide. Yeah.
racebending's post.
wtf_tla's post.
Here's the youtube clip by itself.
EDIT: for those of you who can't or really don't want to see the clip (like myself), here's the exchange under an lj cut and ( Read more... ) -
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It's been over a week since TLA opened, and it's not doing all that well with critics (8% on Rotten Tomatoes) or fans. I've been collecting links so I could do one big post instead of constantly updating and editing and overall flooding the network.
To start off with, racebending.com's page on how journalists and critics have taken to TLA
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So much news, I just don't know where to begin. Okay, so tomorrow, July 1, TLA opens in America (and Canada?). If you're in Seattle or LA, there will be protests - details on the facebook events page, or you can contact mike@racebending.com for details. I unfortunately can't make it to a protest, but if any of you guys can make it to one, that'd ( Read more... ) -
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On some really weak internet, so it'll be quick: Shyamalan responds to the casting controversy and defends his actions.
If you want to respond (and I highly encourage you all to do so), I suggest reading the comm's post first - basically, be polite, don't attack Shyamalan, don't respond to the pro-casters. Shyamalan's trying to make it personal, ( Read more... ) -
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TIME wants some fan questions for M. Night Shyamalan about The Last Airbender. Everyone should go leave a comment asking why this film has been whitewashed! racebending has some good ideas for how to best word your question. -
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An incredibly moving piece from ssj10 on how The Last Airbender movie is personally affecting and hurting people with their racism. -
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pie_or_death also sent me this CNN article about recent whitewashing in movies, which includes white, white Angelina Jolie cast as Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic...you know, the Egyptian queen of Mediterranean descent who science has determined had an African mother. Totally white ( Read more... ) -
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I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO DO THIS FOR ABOUT A FORTNIGHT BUT REAL LIFE WAS IN THE WAY ( Read more... )