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With the Netflix discharge not so far aside , the director of the newDeath Noteadaptation blames the recent live - actionGhost in the Shellfilm for bringingthe whitewashing controversyto the head of the media ’s attention and buff word . Death Notewas in the beginning a Japanese Manga that was adapted into anime and a serial publication of live - action film bring out by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan . But the raw Netflix adaptation see the story of Light , a bookman who finds a supernatural notebook computer , take place in America .
WhenGhost in the Shellannounced that Scarlett Johansson would star in the pic as the Major , many criticized the casting of a lily-white wizard in the lead function of a with child production over an an Asian actress . While the actress has shown on multiple occasions that she ’s more than capable of leading her own motion-picture show ( we ’re still waiting for aBlack Widowmovie ) , it was an excellent - and missed - chance to inflate theatrical performance in Hollywood .
end Notedirector Adam Wingard spoke toVultureabout the pic being draw into the discussion of whitewashing , and howGhost in the Shellopened the floodgate for the topic to be discussed in the mainstream media . He also mentioned that it was n’t something they were wait :
" It ’s one of those thing where it ’s a respectable conversation to be hold , and it was n’t one we were really expect . It was n’t until the Ghost in the Shell cracked it open [ that ] it became a conversation . But by then , we had already cast all of that stuff … It ’s not just taking a theatrical role and trying to say a bloodless kid is a Nipponese kid . It is a whole unexampled matter . The characters are all very dissimilar and it is a different kind of experience all together .
[ It was ] about creating a novel experience out of it . This stuff has already been made into movie in Japan . The Zanzibar copal itself is an adjustment , and a lot of those things are on the nose , so this was a chance to reexplore the material in a Modern light . "
Ghost in the Shellhas been an excellent case of whatHollywood can do in the futureto avoid such controversy , and it ’s something thatDeath Notecould’ve taken on board . The director does say they were already in yield by the time the treatment had reach mainstream media , so recasting may have been hard . Death Noteseems to be arrange in America for a reason , and hopefully that reason is fully explore throughout the film . Unlike the ground return inGhost in the Shell , which bring thewhitewashing of the Johansson casting into the plot of land .
While Wingard maintains that his version ofDeath Noteisn’t part of the whitewashing problem in Hollywood , he does acknowledge that the conversation want to be had . Plus , it is deserving noting that the original creator of the serial , Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata , said they loved the film . We ’ll just have to expect until the loss of Wingard ’s adaptation to see whether his explanation holds up .
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rootage : Vulture
