SearchingLyoko wrote:No live action... please.
I just found out that Avatar: the last airbender is doing THREE live action moves... and I'm bawling my eyes out.
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Please, just stick to the animation! It's not that hard.
There's nothing inherently wrong with live-action adaptations. I personally dig the idea. I'm glad there are live-action ATLA movies coming, but then there's the huge hippo-elephant in the room about the casting. The vast majority of the actors are white as opposed to east Asian, like the characters in the show are. I personally think this didn't come about through malice but because it's a Nickelodeon pictures movie and they're assuming they'll be playing to a white teenybopper kind of audience. No excuse, of course, and the issue still bothers me. Besides, Dev Patel would have made a much better Sokka than Zuko, and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka... not fully sold on that. At least they'll have to keep Toph Asian in the second movie, for last-name-related reasons.