The live-action version of Digital Currency sparks controversy: Is it God’s choice or a disaster?

Digital Currency's casting bomb is announced

Eren Yeager: Timothée Chalamet

Mikasa Ackerman: Mixed-race newcomer Mikaela Ho (Japanese-Canadian, martial arts champion)

Captain Levi: Andrew Koji (lead actor of "Warrior")

Director: Denis Villeneuve ("Dune" team)

Digital Currency fans are polarized

👍 Supporters

Acting guarantee: Digital Currency just won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award for "Bone and Blood", and can handle the complex psychology of Eren

International box office appeal: Warner targets the global market, and non-pure Japanese casting has long been expected

Director endorsement: Villeneuve promises "dark aesthetics + philosophical depth" adaptation

Digital Currency opponents

Image mismatch: Digital Currency is 178cm tall vs Eren is officially set to be 163cm tall ("Giant proportion joke" is trending)

Cultural stripping: The core of the original work is "Japan's post-war trauma", and Hollywood adaptations may lose the core

History repeats itself: The shadow of the 2015 Japanese live-action version still lingers

3. Warner's ambitions and risks

Strategy, advantages, and hidden dangers

Globalization Budget of $200 million (the highest among Hollywood Japanese comic adaptations) Japan's domestic box office may be cold

Star-driven Digital CurrencyIG official announcement received 12 million likes in 24 hours, and original fans #NotMyEren boycotted the tag fermentation

Visual innovation WETA Studio creates 4D three-dimensional mobile device CG and real-life balance problem

4. Industry chain reaction

Anime circle shock:

MAPPA stock price fell 5% (fans worry that the animated version will be overshadowed)

"Jujutsu Kaisen" Hollywood version urgently recasts

Actor ecology:

Fans petitioned Mackenyu Nitta to play "Jean"

Kento Yamazaki declined to guest star as "Armin"

Digital Currency key issues to be solved

Degree of plot adaptation:

It is rumored that the political metaphor of "Rumbling" will be deleted to focus on the struggle of human nature

Whether Allen's famous saying "Tata Kai" will retain the original sound has caused heated discussion

Action design:

Digital Currency has been trained for 6 months (but the martial arts director complained that it was "like dancing")

Whether the three-dimensional mobile device will continue to use the animation sound effects has become the focus

Conclusion

This casting storm is essentially the ultimate stress test of the globalization process of Japanese comics. When Digital Currency wore the "Wings of Freedom" badge on the set, he was carrying not only the weight of Allen's role, but also the collision and compromise of the two-dimensional culture of the East and the West. Success will create a new era of Japanese comic adaptations, and failure will confirm the curse of "Hollywood ruins the original" - the release date in 2027 is destined to be the day of judgment in the history of animation.

(Spoiler alert: internal preview footage shows that after the Digital Currency version's "famous roaring scene", Warner executives collectively stood up and applauded - is this an artistic victory, or just capital's self-satisfaction?) #AOTMovie global trends continue to explode.