Why couldn't she play Matoko in GITS?
She's got that Japanese look and it would appease the whitewashers? She not that bad of an actress either.
>>69268684
casting Japanese actress in a movie that you want to make $$$? are you stuck in the 1980s or something when Japan mattered? the jap girl in Pacific Rim added nothing to its box office because Japanese doesnt give a shit about live-action movies / it bombed there.
the reality of 2016 is that China is a behemoth in the movie industry and if you were to cast an Asian actress, she would most likely be Chinese.
>>69268684
>Matoko in GITS
What the fuck do these words mean?
>>69268936
they mean muh dick
>>69268895
Why not just pull a superman the movie and cast an unknown as the lead and have a stacked side cast like they did with gene hackman and marlon brando
>>69268936
Play the main character in ghost in the shell
>>69268684
>She not that bad of an actress either.
Did you actually watch Pacific Rim? Like, with the sound on?
Gooks, chinks, and all other manner of slants can't act for shit
Kurosawa even thought so.
>>69269446
Yes.
this isn't about artistic integrity or even maintaining the heart of the stories, it's about making money. slopes don't sell. get over it.
>>69268684
Physically, Johansson looks closer to Motoko (why you fucking idiots keep on bitching she's not "Makoto" just shows me you're just in on for the bandwagon) than the OP.
Hell, I'm even quite confident SJ is the best possible actress to play the role, all things considered. She's got the looks, the name, and can play deadpan/dry with no effort.
>>69269449
Not even Toshiro? ):
because GITS won't be a big name movie here so they're going to sell the actor's name rather than the movie. They're banking people will go see it to see scarjo in leather doing flips and shit, not because GITS is a good series.
Please no Japanese smokers. Smokers are bad enough. We have one already playing the lead as it is.
Japs hate this girl too.
>>69268936
MATOKO PANUKEIKU!
>>69268684
yeah but she barely speaks any english.
>>69268895
>Japanese doesnt give a shit about live-action movies
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/yearly/?yr=2015&p=.htm
>>69269449
This is a meme. I've noticed that suddenly everyone is repeating this on /tv/. But if Asian actors had always been bad then why are people only now constantly saying so (and only on /tv/)?
She would be good, might not have the English for our market though.
>>69270834
This.
I think she's qt but you need an actor who can annunciate the target language.
Also it's not like it's a period piece, it's sci-fi.
>>69268684
Because white people these days are so sensitive that they can't stand to even see minorities in film who arent doing the modern day equivalent of a minstrel show.
They are exotic in the way that makes white characters want to fuck them
They are comic relief
Or they are the side-kick to the white protag
beyond that white people get triggered at the idea that the hero could be anything but white.
Mainstream white audiences feel the same way about minorities that tumblr does about cis-straight white people.
She literally cannot speak clear English.
She's also the antithesis of sexy, like most Asian girls.
Jesus this thread's already a fucking train wreck.
>>69268684
Other then the fact that they clearly wanted to cast a white person as their lead regardless of logic, IIRC she's filming another movie right now.
>>69271936
It isn't "a white person", they want to cast a well known hot actor for the role. Don't be such a bigot just because racism is a convenient fact to back it up with.
She's pregnant so probably not doing anything right now.
MEW was so fucking racist in that movie
