Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Brotherhood

[arus2001]

I dunno, giving Japan a pass because they're less racially diverse than the US reeks a bit of hypocrisy. Some might even argue it worse given the country's fame for xenophobia, too. Logistically, yes, it's understandable, but once you get past that, the question then becomes, "Aren't there white and brown actors that are fluent enough in Japanese to land the roles there?" My answer would probably be a mix of yes with casting not trying hard enough.

I follow a few anime VOs on Twitter (Todd Haberkorn, Kaiji Tang, and Stephanie Sheh) and occasionally they gripe about the difficulty of landing onscreen roles here. Todd actually did Ling for FMA here and also had a role in Syfy B-Movie recently, but I know Kaiji (Archer in UBW) gets some shit because he's not the typical polite asian and Steph (Orihime in Bleach) funnily got turned down by CBS because they thought she was too female, whatever the fuck that means. Either way, I only joking referenced the GitS movie even if I do feel it can get away with some technicalities due to the prevalence of cyborgs. FMA or even AoT doesn't have that luxury, the latter so in that asians are supposedly pretty rare in that world.

[Dantrag]

But I think thats fine because the majority of their audience is going to be Japanese people. Films cater to their audiences.

Not disagreeing but doesn't mean that it would be better if they brought in more people from different nationalities to play the other characters. I mean.... who are they going to get to play Armstrong? <_>;

[Tyrath]

I'm not giving Japan a pass. I think with the same token GITS being white in the US is fine too. I don't speak for all the idiot SJWs

[dasva]

Basically not using any nationality for any of their races. Basically turning it all to white people. Where as FMA is mostly white people instead of Asians. So basically they're race bending the movies just because of where they're being shot.

That's not true. The bad guys were still ethnically diverse

[Dantrag]

That's not true. The bad guys were still ethnically diverse

lol the only ones... figures right?

[dasva]

Usually I'm not going to care too much because they should be casting for someone's ability to play the part first and foremost and you have to deal with things like budgets and realistically available talent pool. So you even if you could technically chalk together everyone of the "correct" race it might not in practice be possible and even if it was it's not necessarily a good idea. Like Samuel doesn't look a thing like Nick Fury even if he was white but I can't think of anyone better for the role. On the other hand in Avatar it's clear none of the good guys were picked for acting ability let alone how well they fit the role.

[Deadgye]

It's going to be bad. Why? The same reason they use a mostly all Japanese cast for most of their movies: budget. We're spoiled to hell by Hollywood. The correct response to any live-action movie adaptation of anything anime is to pretend it doesn't exist.

[kuronosan]

FMA takes place in Europe. Amestris has never been Japan. It's been a western setting forever. Even Scar's people were supposed to be "Middle Eastern".

[Dantrag]

It's going to be bad. Why? The same reason they use a mostly all Japanese cast for most of their movies: budget. We're spoiled to hell by Hollywood. The correct response to any live-action movie adaptation of anything anime is to pretend it doesn't exist.

How are we spoiled by hollywood... they just cast white people for everything.

[Tyrath]

He said because budget lol

[Zealot]

The country in FMA is pretty clearly Germany.

That said I'd rather have a good movie than one with the "right" races.

[Deadgye]

Even ignoring that I was talking about budget problems mainly, saying Hollywood just casts 'white people' for everything is very silly. Ignoring, again, that they don't, 'white' is a color that covers many different ethnicities.

[Bombur]

Sneak Peak at the live action version of Fullmetal Alchemist.

[Boyiee]

man he's ugly

[Hitoshura]

[Dantrag]

You know, it's just good to know that we're not the only ones that completely shit up live movies :D That's the only good take away from any of this.

[Zetanio]

I caught this trailer from a buddy.

Looks awful. Leave anime alone please.

[Vaspinne]

They did a live action Attack on Titan, I'm not surprised they're doing a live action FMA. Live Action Kenshin was actually not too shabby, albeit, the final fight in the last movie was super lame. This looks like it has a pretty big budget though, considering the CGI and the locals in the trailer. You would think they'd be able to afford a better looking blonde wig for the guy playing Edward.

I dunno, some live action anime movies work and some really miss. But I find most have been pretty "meh" that I've seen. Chihayafuru, Ore Monogatari, Kenshin 1 was good, 2 and 3 were meh. Bakuman was pretty decent, Daily Lives of Highschool Boys was fucking awful, Usagi Drop was pretty nice.

I'm sure I've seen others, but those are the only ones I can think of at the moment

[Zetanio]

Attack on Titan live action was fucking terrible.

[Vaspinne]

I never saw it but I'm not surprised at all lol