I've never watched "Avatar: the Last AirBender," but I know a bunch of someones that have. Many of which are over the age of 21, so I'm safe in assuming that Avatar has a strong adult/cult following. Well, M. Knight Shyamalan is making a live-action version of the Nickelodeon animated series and apparently, there is a huge protest against the film's casting decisions. To my limited understanding, most of the characters in Avatar are Asian, the actors playing the roles are mostly white.
The Post printed an article on Monday about the whole thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030102088.html
Speaking of which, in the wake of Slumdog Millionaire's Oscar-nabbing, I just had a conversation about Tinseltown's compulsion to cast caucasian actors in ethnic roles (Check out the upcoming Prince of Persia movie, the Prince is played by Jake Gyllenhaal) or use caucasian characters to tell the stories of people of color (Edward Zwick is eternally on my $hit-list for that reason). It just proves that Slumdog's Oscar win, with it's all-Indian cast, does not mean that Hollywood is becoming forward thinking (Damn ---You think I would've retained that lesson after Denzel and Halle won their Oscar's back to back). They'd sooner insult an entire culture, not to mention it's already solid fanbase, in an attempt to perpetuate a norrow-minded worldview:
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