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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2010-05-07 03:22 pm

...remind me NOT to read comments in posts at ANN

It's *NOT* going to be the end for FMA.

I will bet to you that Hollywood producers are in negotiations for the rights to adapt the Manga and i'll bet we will get at least a live action big budget trilogy before there will be no more of FMA. And you know what? I have nothing against it. I actually think they could take the story to some interesting places. And beside, it will introduce FMA to most of the mainstream American audience..

Also.. The setting of the show/Manga is an alternative Germany, so that mean no race problem if they won't cast Asians for the roles..


...Stupid "alternative Germany" thing aside?

THERE ARE ASIAN CHARACTERS IN FMA. HELLO?

But mostly, I'd be more scared about them casting Scar as a white guy than the Xinguese. After racebending fail, I wouldn't be surprised if they would completely miss the point of the Ishval war by getting some tanned action actor. Gag!

ETA: not getting notifications *pokes eljay*

[identity profile] lacunarity.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't be too worried about Scar. If there's one thing movies consistently do, it's make sure the terrorists have dark skin. -_-
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
...I hadn't thought about that *facepalm* So damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[identity profile] lacunarity.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Now, making that character sympathetic and understanding that his actions come from years of oppression and violence from the white invaders? Probably not so much.

Though it would be really cool if they decided to switch it up and modeled Scar etc after the Ainu culture, which is apparently what inspired their creation. Wouldn't happen, but it would be very neat.

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[identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
If they miss the point about one series dealing with genocide, why should they not miss the point about another series dealing with genocide, indeed. And you'll have people go on about how it's not necessary to portray the right ethnicity in order to tell the story, because the story is, like, totally not about things like racism and xenophobia. And people joking about how they should get an albinos if they wanted to fit the anime so they'd have red eyes. Because that's clearly the most important thing about the Ishvalans.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. It's not like there's no recent precedent or anything. Oh, but the two main characters ARE Caucasian this time, there's no race problem! WTF.

I hadn't thought about blackfacing an albino with makeup, and that's even sillier than my original image of Vin Diesel with bleached hair and red contacts. Augh.

[identity profile] wodhaund.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Vin Diesel with bleached hair

He has to have hair to bleach it! I was thinking more along the lines of a cheap wig;;;;

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[identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
hahahaha, Vin Diesel, well at least he's not all that white XD

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[identity profile] hamsterfactor.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
LMAO FOREVER @ THE WHOLE THING.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I should learn to laugh it off, but it's just so scary and unfunny that someone wants a Hollywood movie of this. I just. What.

[identity profile] lacunarity.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair, I think it would make a rather awesome liveaction Hollywood blockbuster. Explosions, war, intrigue, all that good stuff. And if they wanted to do an endarkening of an animated story with a majority white cast, it fits better with this than Avatar.

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[identity profile] hamsterfactor.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I will eat my hat if there's ever a live action FMA movie. No, seriously. God forbid
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[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
... yeah, what [livejournal.com profile] etrangere said.

[identity profile] jupiterk.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
lmfao what. failure.


I think Scar will be fine, it's Ling&Ran Fan we have to worry about, if they even have them in the movies.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Lan Fan would probably be background noise in a Hollywood flick. A lot of promotional photos of HEY LOOK, ACTION NINJA GIRL, but then her arm subplot is cut off (n-no pun intended XD) and she's always just there standing behind Ling or something.

Ling would worry me a lot, yeah, but he has the squinty eyes going on so maybe he'll get casted with a random martial artist Asian guy after all. Would Mei make it at all? Xiao Mei sure wouldn't, needs CGI animation. Fu is old so they wouldn't care either.

[identity profile] jupiterk.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah seriously. and I bet for her and fu they'll just have their masks on most of the time to overlook the whole WOOPS THEY DON'T LOOK AZN OUR BAD thing.

I hope Mei makes it she's fairly important...

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[identity profile] wodhaund.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
When you say her subplot will get cut off, what you mean is she'll get stuffed in a refrigerator so Ling can have REAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT this will provide the impetus for him to hack into the Matrix and link up with Greed.

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[identity profile] outou.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, what stood out to me was the "alternative Germany" as opposed to "alternate Germany." What, there's a choice about what Germany we get to have?

The "live-action big-budget trilogy" thing makes me want to call "troll," though.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
As in the first anime writers chose WWII Germany over the alternative of WWI Germany because... LOL NAZI AU ENDING? I have no idea XD

Considering no one has batted an eyelash at the comment in that forum, if it's a troll it was quite unsuccessful. Not less headdesk worthy, but eh.

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[identity profile] kirarakim.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL ANN posters proving their stupidity once again. But I am stupid too because I always read those boards so I shouldn't be talking

Anyways I highly doubt there will ever be an FMA live action Hollywood movie. Thankfully the franchise is really not all that big here. Not in the way DBZ or Pokemon was at least.

edit: I saw who said it...he's not a troll just someone who lacks a lot of sense.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
More than a lot of sense, really!

But hmmm, considering that none of the other anime-to-real-action Hollywood projects/rumors aren't either DBZ-level even though they're still as fairly popular as FMA (namely Akira (arguably, though), Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, etcetera), it's not exactly impossible that a big studio would consider to butcher FMA. It doesn't mean this commenter isn't full of bull, of course, but it's not safe because of relative obscurity.

[identity profile] la-vie-noire.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh pfft.

The setting of the show/Manga is an alternative Germany, so that mean no race problem if they won't cast Asians for the roles

BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS CAST ASIANS FOR ANIME ROLES. ALWAYS. And pfft, at the "It's Germany!!", so no problem if they are all white people like it's always supposed to be!

Anyway, besides the obvious, Izumi?

[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I bet they think everyone is blond and blue-eyed in Germany, and it's not like there are a lot of Turkish people there or anything.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I've always liked the fan theory that Roy is of mixed race or another race altogether, myself. I think an actor of Asian descend would look fitting for the part.

But considering people in Hollywood seem to think Aang is white just because Air Bender skin is lighter than Water Tribe's (and they still casted Water Tribe leads as white kids ngg), I wouldn't be surprised it wouldn't even occur to them that Izumi could be non-Caucasian, Japanese* name aside. (And same with Roy, who also has a very English name to top that, but then again he is adopted so he could be almost anything.)

P-plus, there are black people on Amestris! Just like, you know, in any Western country in the real world, Germany and United Kingdom (which are the main bases for Amestris) included!

* Well, they do mention an island in the East when Breda is playing shogi, so just like Xing is their "China", there could be a "Japan"? And Izumi's family is from there?

[identity profile] ayasugi-san.livejournal.com 2010-05-07 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The only amusing thing I could think of is if they used an all-black cast and the uproar that would cause, so we could throw TLA back in their faces.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... but they wouldn't. Ever. For any movie of this kind.

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