I think the reason why Avatar The Last Air bender property have been treated with such disrespect from Hollywood execs is because it's a non-white story.

Brother in christ. Hundreds of White leading shows also gets butchered each year. That's just how hollywood goes lmao

Jesus f****** christ...

Not true. But make up more bullshit.

Or maybe executives make stupid decisions and not every little thing is about race. Plenty of Asian culture is hot right now worldwide.

Is there anything you can point to of it actually being a race issue?

I do think most execs are money minded than racist. Once the content formula for Asian markets is clearly established I can’t imagine they won’t go for it. But objectively speaking at this point beyond the original series there is already a Netflix series, a movie which both didn’t do well. And now another movie? I’m actually not even sure how that got green lit given how hard it is to get a movie made unless there were actual fans involved in the decision making system.

Kpop Demon hunters was huge and won mainstream awards. Mario Bros is doing well too. I don’t remember a time when music, movies or tv from Asia was more popular in the west.

I genuinely don't think most of the board members are making choices about it know aang or toph are Asian to be honest. I think it's probably more because Paramount doesn't treat their animation department well outside of like 3 brands and that's been especially true the last decade.

Disrespect, damn I wish I had this level of disrespect from Hollywood.

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Not buying your racist theory. Money talks, everything else is BS.

This sub can't handle your point, even though you're absolutely correct.

It's definitely part of it. Look what they tried to do with the live action movie.

Absolutely! Just say it straight, Hollywood/American government does not want Chinese-esque ideology to be glorified and accepted on the big screen. The representation of Asian can only be in unattractive/non protagonistic way, especially the men of Asian decent. (Mulan's general becoming a whiny non glorifying role) Here we have Aang, strong righteous funny, and the Taga strong muscular hot. The story is awe-inspiring. It's definitely supposed to make atleast 400million in the theaters and probably more and start a new wave of Asian influence on the younger/new generation. But no, the cultural silencer (you know who you are) must sabotage this, even if it costs the company's some dozens of millions. But think of it, to keep the culture of Asia/China-esque away from the west gives monopoly over the entire west's audience and drives unity against Asia. This value is magnitudes more than just few dozens of millions. The artists/writers give their heart but they don't know they signed up against politics. Chinese-esque ideology (especially strong attractive empathetic likeable male protagonist) will Never be glorified in the west in the current political agenda. Leaking the film is more about controlling the public opinion, keeping the west under the current blanket view of Asia as much as possible, cutting all sprouting seeds of "hey Asian cultural is relatable and cool too". Now we're only left with an Indian female avatar in the future, not male, and farther from Chinese-esque. The film themes of culture is irony to how it is being culturally silenced. Money talks, on the larger scale, country-country scale of influence, which far outweight just short term less profit of a film. How is west different from east?... hypocritical control, there's no free speech when the basis of our understanding is already led biased against the other. I recommend letting the film go to the theaters, I'd pay twice or thrice. Maybe add one more min of footage to overcome the leaked mindset. I'm sure the cultural silencer will come down vote this or argue this and that. But Chinese-esque cultural (especially male) can not be glorified. Glorified, key word.