Let’s catch up with the Avatar, movie news
I know the sad part is that the series has been cancelled but the good news is that soon we will get to see a new Avatar movie. And now when that is the latest thing about this animation series, so let me upgrade you with what the movie will be about and what the directors of the movie are up to.
Almost all of us are aware of the fact that M. Night Shyamalan, has decided to make a live action movie on the hit animation series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. But most of us do not know that the director of the film has invited loads of trouble by casting white actors as the main characters in his big-screen take of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Wondering what the problem with that is, the problem is that the series features a decidedly Asian world with predominantly Asian characters, including Aang, the title character, the Chosen One who must unite four warring worlds; Sokka, Aang’s friend; and Katara, Sokka’s sister. Some of the vivid fans of the series have taken this quite literary and are calling Shyamalan, the writer, director and producer of the movie, a racist. For the movie, Shyamalan has decided to cast Noah Ringer, a karate champion from Texas, as Aang, Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone as Sokka and Nicola Peltz of Deck the Halls as Katara. Fans are actually quite disturbed by this change of cast in the movie. And they feel that this is like a slap in the face of those who are loyal to the show.
Mostly fans are upset by this casting of the movie and are writing in complaints. People have taken this issue far more seriously and gone to the extent of calling it ‘Orientalism’. I personally feel that this kind of thing could really affect the collection of the movie, once the movie is released. Do you think this kind of negative publicity and making the fans unhappy with the cast of the new movie will affect the collection of the movie? Share your thoughts with us by leaving comments.
