Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14434

Here's the news about the new Ghost in the Shell Blu-Ray from July. It should be out by the end of this month.

Dumb.

Ah, iconic Asian actress Scarlett Johansson.

Meh.

I mean I get where people are coming from. There should be a bigger presence of non-white actors in movies especially when the source material uses non-white characters (The Last Airbender, Big Hero 6).

But at the same I see where the studio is coming from. There aren't any Asian actress that are "bankable" enough for them to market the movie on. So they either get a known bankable entity, ScarJo, or they change the narrative of the movie (or at least the marketing) to focus on a male actor they can get the average person to recognize.

It's a crap problem. There are no huge Asian stars because they don't make movies with them, but there's no movies with them because there are no Asian stars. It's that "Entry Level Position: Need 2 Years Experience" crap.

In the end, I hope for the best but I'll expect the worst.

Scarlett Johansson is a goddess.

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I bought all the japanese BD released of GITS:Arise, so I guess I need to add the new animated film on my to-buylist as well. ~this is not really healthy.

Probably won't be seeing this live action movie.

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The petition accuses DreamWorks of "whitewashing."

I wonder if someone out there has the numbers on how many petitions on sites like these actually work. I betting not many.

ScarJo gets naked like the major did then count me.

(i know she got naked in some other movie)

i'm expecting this to be a generic PG13 scifi romp that just cashes in on the name more than being an adaptation... Aeon Flux comes to mind.

Wow, that's legitimately awesome casting news.

The stupid decisions regarding race in this movie make we wander how many other stupid decisions have been made in production.