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taotrooper) wrote2010-05-07 03:22 pm
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...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*
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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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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.
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He has to have hair to bleach it! I was thinking more along the lines of a cheap wig;;;;
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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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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.
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I hope Mei makes it she's fairly important...
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The "live-action big-budget trilogy" thing makes me want to call "troll," though.
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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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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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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.
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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?
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Icon is a BAD example
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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?
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