The only way this could not be completely awful is if it were an exact recreation of the original story but gender swapped, because that would tell us some interesting things about how we perceive violence and gender. Anything else is going to be a stereotyped mess.

Mostly, I’m very happy with this news. Because I miss both those actors, and now maybe they’ll both find shows to be on that I can enjoy watching. Put them both in that new Star Trek thing. Oh wait that’s CBS too isn’t it? Or Westworld! Westworld is expanding into Samurai World next season, they could probably use a…

congrats

This was bullying plain and simple. Sad day when GROWN ass adult get their kicks and giggles from picking on people who can’t retaliate or defend themselves.

“We rely on our community to help us guide everything we do.”

It’s crazy. It’s as if non-white people like to see themselves in movies and will pay to see such productions.

That’s a pretty basic bitch way of looking at how markets work and how market participants look at the factors of movie success.

I mean, I’m not surprised that they’d ignore data that didn’t confirm to their world views, but it’s so fucking depressing.

It’s an especially silly thought when we consider for even like a millisecond that more diverse films have been shown to make more money. http://time.com/money/4237685/movies-diversity-casts-money/

Ghost in the Shell came out five weeks ago. This announcement happened today, about a movie that has not been made yet. That means they had five weeks to consider if publicly announcing this casting decision was a good idea or not. A lesson is on offer, and the producers of this new movie have not learned it.

So one movie cratered, and now we need another movie to crater worse? If this movie craters, will we see a proposed remake of Yojimbo with Leonardo DiCaprio as the samurai, and will we say “well if this craters a third time, maybe Hollywood will learn!” It’s going to take years of things cratering for Hollywood to…

LOL @ the Market.

I’m tired of “the market” driving every fucking awful decision. It’s a lame excuse. There are more high profile polynesian actors than ever these days if the studios are scared at making a new star, but there really also ought to be room for more.

If moviegoers shun this movie so it craters worse than Johansson’s Ghost in the Shell, maybe, just maybe Hollywood suits will learn their lesson.

False equivalence. Any mainstream religion, including various Islamic denominations, cannot be compared to a cult. They are free to attend, even by non-adherents. I can walk into a mosque, a Catholic Church, a synagogue, any number of protestant churches, a Buddist temple, as someone not part of those faiths, and take…

See, that sounds a lot like: “If you can’t accept this crazy cult that only is counted as a religion for tax purposes and locks dissenters in the basement then you also can’t accept this religion that, while some people might misinterpret/prevent it for the negative, is in reality supportive of creative and individual…

Scientology is a cult. That fact that you’re unable to make the distinction between a religion and a cult pretty much destroys the credibility of your argument.

Scientology is really not comparable to Islam, or any other established faith with centuries of history and millions upon millions of followers.