Scarlett Johansson to star in Just Cause again, but this time she’s an adult and also it’s a TV show
Scarlett Johansson is returning to one of her very first film roles, but now as the lead character
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It’s been almost 30 years since 10-year-old Scarlett Johansson played a little kid in the Sean Connery-starring crime thriller Just Cause (an adaptation of the John Katzenbach novel of the same name) and now she’s going to be replacing Connery in a new take on the original book. That comes from Deadline, which says this new adaptation will actually be a TV show from writer Christy Hall, with Amazon’s Prime Video giving it a straight-to-series order.
Johansson is going to star as Madison “Madi” Cowart, a reporter for a Florida newspaper who is asked to cover the final days of a murderer on death row who claims to be innocent. In the previous adaptation, the main character (Connery) was reconceived as a liberal law professor who was opposed to the death penalty, with Johansson—in only her second film role and her third acting role ever if you count an appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien—playing his daughter. The original Just Cause movie also starred Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris, and Kate Capshaw.
This will be Johansson’s first regular TV gig, having previously just popped up for a few voice acting roles on Robot Chicken and the six episodes of Saturday Night Live that she hosted. Sean Connery, by comparison, never did a voice on Robot Chicken, never appeared on SNL, and wasn’t even in The Avengers. (Let us have it in the comments, pedants! This is a gift to you!)
Finally, just because there is a minimum word count on news stories, we have to point out that this Just Cause has nothing to do with the video game series of the same name, so Johansson will not by jumping out of cars and using a grappling hook to fly over to other cars before crashing them into helicopters. Or maybe it will? They might have to pad it out for television.
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Scarjo’s on the cusp of aging out of femme fatal roles, and entering the teen drama mom phase of her career.
What does that have to do with this, which is neither of those things?
What a stupid, sexist comment.You are a disgusting and unoriginal thing. I wish you all you deserve.
I’m seeing double, here!Four dudebras!
People need to leave the troll in the grays.Better yet, it should be banned.
Take your meds and stop trying to bother the grownups.
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Scarlett Johansson to star in Just Cause Man if you think people vaguely aware of Ghost in the Shell were upset, just wait until Just Cause fans here about this casting.
NGL, I read the headline and immediately thought there was a Just Cause movie based on the game, and she was starring in it. I’m certainly more interested in that than I am in whatever this project is.
Does Just Cause have any female characters who aren’t like highly suspect middle-aged powerbrokers who make you do violent amoral stuff in exchange for motorcycles? The only characters I even remember TALKING to are your ex-boss and your brother in 3.
Funnily enough the only people mad about ScarJo being cast in Ghost in the Shell were Americans, like the Japanese straight up didn’t give a damn about her casting.
“Japanese people are also racist” isn’t quite the spirited defense you think it is.
Never said they were or wern’t racist, that the people you would expect to be offended, the country where Ghost in the Shell was created and based, didn’t care that ScarJo got the part. Look the Japanese do have quite the bad history with many things including race. They even did something similar with the live action Attack on Titan where all the main characters, except I belive one, are germanic based.
I just can’t keep up with all the rules. White actresses can’t play fictional Asian characters, but black actors can play fictional white characters.Likewise, it is apparently wrong for a straight person to play a gay role or a someone who is not trans to play a trans role. Yet at the same time it is never said that gay actors can only play gay characters and trans actors can only ever be trans characters.
Well I do kind of get when people who are playing a character are a different race than the character. But when the race, in this case Asian, don’t make a stink, and all the rage is coming from mostly white people it just seems strange.
The rage isn’t mostly coming from white people, its coming from Asian Americans, who have to deal with a different culture, history and power structure than Japanese folk in Japan.Japanese folk don’t have a hard time finding work in entertainment in Japan because they’re Japanese. Folks of Japanese descent DO have a hard time finding work in entertainment in America because they look Japanese.The only reason it would seem strange is if you divorce the discussion from all context. While I don’t think you’re doing so intentionally, trolls often do this willfully to make arguments in bad faith. Which can make sometimes reasonable questions like yours seem contentious because of the unfortunate company they keep.
That doesn’t make the double standards okay though. If white people can’t play Asians, then African Americans can’t play white people, etc.Otherwise it’s just racism. And I’m not trolling I’m dead serious: it’s racist as fuck to say “you can replace white characters with any race, but the reverse is wrong”.The solution is: instead of being so lazy and race or gender swapping a character, create a new one if the current crop of stories don’t boast enough representation.
Lets take your argument seriously, as if there is a “huge” problem with people of color “taking” roles from white people. Your argument, if taken seriously, is akin to a child screaming that just because their brother got a cast for a broken arm that they should get one too. When people are *underrepresented*, fixing that isn’t taking jobs away from people, its rectifying a situation where they shouldn’t have had certain jobs in the first place. The reverse isn’t “wrong”, but it is utterly unnecessary due to the reality and power dynamics of the situation, and it’s unnecessary-ness provokes questions about other reasons for why you want white people to take the roles of people of color so badly.That’s before noting that your argument ensures racist status quos. If most popular published stories in the past starred only white protagonists because white people wouldn’t accept protagonists of color, saying they can’t be a different race now for the pure sake of continuity (or white comfort) is lazy acceptance of a status quo that doesn’t harm you but harms others. Were I to not take your argument seriously: I’m sorry the scary Mexican man got salsa all over your Namor, and you needed to run to Ben Shapiro for your post hoc explanations to support your REEEEEEEEE.
and you needed to run to Ben Shapiro for your post hoc explanations to support your REEEEEEEEE. Yep. It is so, SO fucking funny to see these “DESTROY liberals in arguments” fuckos try to employ Shapiro tactics to do so. It’s pants-shittingly stupid.
Stay safe kid.
Your hypocrisy is noted.
Oh I’m not trolling at all. Just IIRC when her casting was announced I thought, or maybe it was just the loudest voices as is often the case, were anime fans and white folks in the US. And while I don’t think she was the right acrtress for the role, anime live action or animated is still a niche audience, though MUCH bigger than when I was growing up, and because of that you needed a familiar name to get non anime people to even consider seeing it. That said the movie wasn’t great the only positive thing I can say about it, is they did hit many of the big story bits from the anime, which itself is pretty different from the manga.
The thing is, Ghost In The Shell is the PERFECT setting to discuss the philosophical and cultural implications of a Japanese-born woman using technology to *choose* to have the skin of a Caucasian woman. That they didn’t shows how completely ignorant (or perhaps even callous) to these issues they were.
Your right, I mean the major IS a cyborg so she can look like anyone she wants. But the anime, and the manga itself didn’t delve into that. The main plot line was can AI be considered a living entity like any other human or cyborg with a “Ghost”. That said you are correct, as I mentioned in the anime she “appears” as white or caucasian more so than Asian, I made that point when the movie first came out and comeone who was either from Japan or Asian, said that to them and most Japanese people the Major appears Asian. And that could be an interesting thought line, since Japan is so homogenous as a nation compared to say the US, so it would by nature make her job/life much more difficult.
I just can’t keep up with the ever changing rules. Black people can play white characters and it’s fine, but the opposite is not true. Take the example of a black girl playing the little mermaid, this is seen as fine. If tomorrow Disney announced a live action princess and the frog with a white actress in the main role? It’d be called racist.Just like it’s wrong for straight actors to play gay characters, but gay actors can play straight characters.And then there are things like Avatar the airbender movie. Aang in the cartoon does NOT look Asian. He just doesn’t. He looks like a bald white kid. Yet people complained when they cast a white kid as Aang.
They even did something similar with the live action Attack on Titan where all the main characters, except I belive one, are germanic based.And the same thing in the live action Full Metal Alchemist, which is strange since both AoT and FMA have characters with clearly defined races, including the Asians.
It was racist making Johnny Storm black, right?
“It was racist making Johnny Storm black, right?”What a weird and wrong opinion for you to have.
So a white actress playing a fictional Japanese character is wrong.Black actor playing a fictional white character is okay.Your hypocrisy and racism are noted.
Look at you, putting words in other people’s mouths!How’s that working out for you?
I will admit when you called Japanese people racist it came off like you were saying they are racist if they dont care a white actor is playing a Japanese fictional character. Which by that logic would make anyone who doesn’t care that a black actor is playing a white fictional character also a racist.My bad if that is not what you were saying.
Nerds really made a a huge blunder when they decided to prioritize logic over common sense in their lives.
So using your own logic is wrong? Noted.
When you can’t apparently read, it sure is.
Yes or no were you calling Japanese people racist for not caring about the casting choice? Don’t be shy kiddo.
One of these days, you’re going to realize that your burning need to ask that question says a lot more about you than it does about me.Best of luck, boomer.
So you can’t answer? Just rely on stereotypical boomer shit? Oh son: sit this one out. You’re done here.
DEBATE MEEEEE
SUCH lil’ dicked Shapiro energy from the homie.
You keep mentioning Shapiro kiddo. You in love?
I accept your concession.
“Japanese people are also racist”Where was this argument made?
It’s a shame how we can’t make good racism in America any more.
I’m still pissed off they cast her as Black Widow. In real life she is NOT a russian assassin who was sterilized at a young age. She’s had kids and everything! This is unfair, could have hired a real sterilized Russian assassin.And I cant even count how many straight guys Neil Patrick Harris played, despite being gay.
You’d like us to bring up the adaptation of Avengers starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, wouldn’t you?
I’m thinking of vomiting already.
I’m still utterly baffled. It had Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as Steed and Peel. It had Sean Connery playing the villain. How could it have ended up such a disaster?
The lead wasn’t actually her first choice, but the show had already cast all their trees.
Excuse me, about SNL, I have a distinct memory of many masterful performances by Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy thank you very much!
Suck it, Trebek!
Turd Ferguson was the real Jeopardy star.
It’s a big hat. It’s funny!
Oh yeah, I remember the original, although for some reason I had it confused with Clear and Present Danger in my head.SPOILER for an almost 30 year old movie…. the supposedly wrongly accused black man was actually guilty! It was quite a jarring tonal shift.
I love the pedant trolling.Speaking of trolls, there is a bigoted goober that has copied my username and is posting ignorant comments under it. I would appreciate it if you would ban this loser.Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving, even fake dudebra. Unfortunately, by the low caliber of its comments, it appears to lead a mean and joyless existence and is incapable of anything happy.
This place has gotten increasingly trolly lately. I was wondering if Elon Musk bought GMG.
makes sense
No grappling hooks! What’s the point!
I want a series about ScarJo parachute climbing aimlessly for an hour each week. The plot doesn’t begin until she’s revealed 100% of the map.
Add Florence Pugh as her wisecracking kid sister and I am even more intrigued
man is that original movie bad in all kinds of ways. The only thing going for it is Lawrence Fishburne.
No, the entire cast of that goofball movie is great.
wasn’t even in The AvengersOf course he was! [You did that on purpose, Sam, and I thank you for it.]