whitewashing

Who knows how John Wick or The Matrix turn out without the influence of Woo and Yuen Woo-Ping? Even one of the most respected filmmakers in American history Martin Scorcese owes his Best Director Oscar honors he won for The Departed (2007) to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Korean-based Infernal Affairs (2002) films. Problems Still Faced[...]

When it comes to pioneers of Hollywood, one of the most overlooked until recently was Anna May Wong. She earned the distinction of being the first Chinese American Hollywood film star. Making the best of the opportunities the business presented her, she took the roles and performed to critical acclaim. The Cultural Struggle for Acceptance […]

Directed by Sacha Gervasi with a screenplay by Gervasi and story by Gervasi & Sean Macaulay, the film unfolds over one night in Los Angeles and tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between Villechaize and journalist Danny Tate(Jamie Dornan) — a friendship that had life-changing consequences for both men.In a rare interview (“I only talk about projects[...]

In a baffling turn, a Black Panther collectible pin sold at Walt Disney World looks to show a light-skinned bearer of the mask, if the tone of the skin around the eyes is anything to go by. The Disney Pins Blog — yes, there is a blog dedicated only to Disney souvenir pins — has captured […]

Yeah, I'd probably want to take it a bit back more towards the books." Whitewashing has been a hot topic in Hollywood lately, and ultimately contributed to the box office bombing of Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson Waititi doesn't plan to make the same mistake (if he directs the movie, of course, which he's[...]

When Ed Skrein resigned from his role in the upcoming Hellboy reboot after learning that he was cast in the role of a Japanese-American character, no one was happier than Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet, who wrote on Instagram: "DAMN, that's a man. Thank you @edskrein for standing up against hollywoods continuous insensitivity and flippant behavior […]

Casting Skrein, a British actor of Jewish Austrian and English descent, in the role of a Japanese-American character, prompted complaints of whitewashing, as we've seen with several high-profile projects in recent memory.However, Skrein took an unusual approach to dealing with the criticism: he agreed with it and resigned from the film, using the opportunity to[...]

When Ed Skrein was cast as Ben Daimio in Neil Marshall's R-Rated Hellboy reboot, it was a happy day for Skrein, who posted to Twitter announcing his excitement and praising Hellboy creator Mike Mignola:https://twitter.com/edskrein/status/899759515033362433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2017%2F08%2Fhellboy-rise-of-the-blood-queen-ed-skrein-ben-daimio-mike-mignola-whitewashing-backlash-asian-american-hollywood-1202155153%2FBut it was not a happy day for many who pointed out another instance of Hollywood casting Asian or Asian-American characters with white[...]

I have been "Making Mine Marvel" for the last three years solely through the Marvel Unlimited Plus program. While only reading Marvel comics this way means I'm generally six months behind the current storyline, it also means I get all the weekly comics (again, six months late) and a large portion of the Marvel catalogue […]

Throughout the day, Marvel has been "changing the comic book industry" by releasing a series of mostly innocuous teasers revealing homage covers for most of their previously existing series, with a couple of new things thrown in here and there. We haven't seen any information on creative teams, or really anything all that exciting. We […]

Joining the chorus of voices of people calling out for better representation in Hollywood, Chris Pratt weighed in on the movie industry's diversity crisis via an interview in Fitness Magazine. "I don't see personal stories that necessarily resonate with me, because they're not my stories," said Pratt in the interview, excerpted on People.com. "I think there's […]

There has been considerable complaints regarding the recent Marvel Netflix version of Iron Fist, for casting a white man in the lead, of a show that focuses on East Asian imagery, spirituality and concepts. It has been criticised for cultural appropriation – but that has also been criticised because Danny Rand, Iron Fist, was and […]

However, to get into the issue of whitewashing in Ghost in the Shell we need to spoil a major twist in the plotline If you’d like to remain unspoiled for this movie then please come back and take a look at this article at another time For everyone else, let’s look at how a studio[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on Iron Fist actor Finn Jones' quitting Twitter after a failed attempt to whitesplain whitewashing to Geeks of Color Creative Director Asyiqin Haron, who was, by the way, inundated with harassment following the incident But getting back to the real victim here, Jones issued a statement about his departure to schedule-themed[...]

Since the very first poster for The Great Wall starring Matt Damon was first released, the film has been criticized as yet another example of "whitewashing," the process of casting white actors in non-white roles Other recent examples of the practice include Marvel casting Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange, though some reports claimed that[...]

What doesn't make sense is that whitewashing the characters was the best possible solution to that The cheapest, easiest solution? That seems more likely But certainly not the only one Bleeding Cool's commenters, bless their souls, were ready to battle Slott on this matter for comment section supremacy:But Slott wasn't giving up that easily:It doesn't[...]