Hey nerds.
BQB here.
Soo…OscarsSoWhite. That whole issue has led to people really paying attention to casting decisions lately.
A trailer is out for a moving coming out next year. Sort of an action horror fantasy movie. “The Great Wall” the idea being that the Great Wall of China was built to keep monsters from invading China.
So the hero’s an Asian guy, right?
Wrong. It’s Matt Damon.
I guess he had some time between filming the last Jason Bourne movie and the next Jason Bourne movie.
Hmmm…ok. So I assume the story explains how a white guy ended up as the hero but…maybe just maybe Good Ole Matt has a good run in Tinsel Town. Maybe just maybe there was an Asian guy who could have been the lead…in a movie…about China.
By the way – I’m not sure I blame Matt Damon. I mean, if Hollywood’s passing out big bucks to pretend to be a warrior in China, I’d take it. But, it is up to Hollywood to say, “Huh. Maybe a movie in Asia needs an Asian lead.”
What say you, 3.5 readers?
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