Yellowface strikes again. Ben Kingsley plays the Mandarin in the next Iron Man movie

[Zalatix]

Check out the weak ass excuse they gave:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35567

Iron Man 3 Day continues apace with EW unveiling the first look at Sir Ben Kingsley's Mandarin, the bad guy set to put Tony Stark through his paces over the course of the highly-anticipated threequel.

The character of The Mandarin was considered by many (including writer/director Shane Black) as too racially insensitive to be portrayed on screen, but Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige has explained how Sir Ben is going to play the originally Oriental baddie: by not actually being Chinese.

“It’s less about his specific ethnicity than the symbolism of various cultures and iconography that he perverts for his own end,” Feige told EW.

Bullshit. I would have believed them if they said they were afraid of offending China (see: the way they changed Red Dawn's antagonists from China to North Korea )...

actually, no I wouldn't have.

[DonCoquixote]

1. especially as

They had Jet Li ready to play him, and chow yun fat...Beijing does not mind having their actors do work.

[Zalatix]

2. But it's Ironman so we'll be expected to swallow that horse pucky.

Who in the world would want to miss an Iron Man movie out of anger over this???

[Up2Late]

3. They should get George Takei

He's Japanese, but I bet he could play Mandarin.

Btw, why the hell are they re making Red Dawn? The original 1984 film was good enough and it was against the Soviets.

[mjrr_595]

4. i'm with you on that.

though I think red dawn sucked