For reasons I can't properly articulate, this doesn't strike me as an Avatar: The Last Airbender situation, which wasn't translating shit, just whitening the characters in place.
I think it's because of this:
You take a movie, you translate it into your culture, and you retell it.
If the movie was set in Japan, but starring white people, that would be a problem. Remaking a Japanese movie as an American movie may be a bad idea, but it doesn't seem like the same kind of whitewashing. Like you said, probably a different kind of whitewashing, but still.
Remaking a Japanese movie as an American movie may be a bad idea, but it doesn't seem like the same kind of whitewashing.
At the time they were made, I doubt it was brought up, but I do have to wonder if "A Fist Full of Dollars" and "The Magnificent Seven" were made today, if they would trigger the same kind of discussion that the Akira remake has.
Yeah, I'm glad, at least, that they're moving the setting since they're casting as they are.
That being said - I wonder what a Japanese movie of it would look like.
What about The Departed/Infernal Affairs? I think it's bacause even so many Americans think Akira is a masterpiece, no?
Didn't as many think Infernal Affairs is a masterpiece? Maybe it's because you're crossing media lines? So they want one medium to be true to the previous? Whereas it would be dumb for an American to make a Japanese adaptation of a Japanese movie.
I actually have no idea, really.
Oh! Saw Harold and Kumar 3. Admittedly, I missed 2, and, duh, I just worked out which one is Daneel Ackles. I am the worst Supernatural fan EVER. It was so way beyond wrong, and really stupid, which was what I needed to see, and quite funny. The 3D is all pretty obvious--there's not a subtle thing about the movie, but that's not why you go see Harold or Kumar, is it?
Jordan Hinson is in this, and I am totally freaked out at the idea of Colin's TV daughter in a stoner comedy. Then again, if I knew the triplets that played...Ava? I'd be even more traumatised.
Infernal Affairs is totally a better movie.
You take a movie, you translate it into your culture, and you retell it. So, yeah, it turns out to have the racial demographics of your culture.
What are the characters' names? What will their backstory be?
They haven't announced their names. But they will be from New York. That's all we know so far. Helena Bonham Carter has also been cast.
