The only character I'd care about casting would be Rukia. She can be played by
Kristin Kruek, who's half white/asian and thus bypasses the whole racial casting boundary.
I would agree with you True but Kruek is a horrible actress. For some bizzare reason I could see Summer Glau doing it.
I'm worried that American film directors and producers could possibly hurt our relationship with Japan by possibly giving some of their anime and games bad rep (upcoming Bleach and Ghost in the shell as well as how bad Resident Evil got screwed up) I pray and hope this doesn't affect our relationship with Japan.
Uzumakikage, I seriously doubt we're in danger of doing that. With the amount of revenue Japan pulls in from the American market, I think Japan really couldn't give two flying ****s what we do with their products. As long as we pay for the rights to do it.
Just another point I'd like to make. You realize that any movie that is made from lets say an anime show or whatever, is almost like a homage to the original works. So regardless of how retarded the finished product might be, it still gives props to the creaters.
Not to mention when something like an American movie comes out, the sales from the original work goes up anyway. I mean when Michael Bay's Transformers movie came out, I'm sure you can imagine how many fanboys when out to buy the dvds of the original series so they could relive some of those moments from their childhood. So in fact the original creators get money from the movie that way as well.
So lets say they do go through with making this red-headed stepchild of a Bleach movie. I can guarantee after the fanboys leave the theater, they'll spend a day crying on the web, then go out and buy the series manga or dvd so they can see what the Bleach experience
should have been like.
So in closing Japan's relationship with America will more than survive whatever idiot film will be shot out from Hollywood. At the most, they'll just sit back and giggle they're damn heads off at our attempts before riding over to the bank, to get their last payment down on that yacht they had been looking at for years.
Edited by No WhereMan, 22 March 2010 - 11:49 PM.