Matt Damon's character is not intended to be Asian in the movie, which does set the situation apart from something like Scarlett Johansson being cast in Ghost in the Shell. Director Zhang Yimou has stated that he feels it is the opposite of what people are suggesting, given that it is a high budget movie tackling Chinese culture with a massive Chinese cast. Actress Constance Wu and others took to social media to voice their distaste for the choices made in the movie. Whitewashing has been a sensitive subject in Hollywood as of late, and given that Matt Damon, a white man, was cast in the lead of a movie based in China, many people were not happy about it.
There has been some controversy surrounding the movie ever since the first trailer landed online a couple of months ago. The movie centers on the construction of the historical landmark, but poses that it was built to help protect against very scary lizard monsters, who we saw brief glimpses of in the first trailer. It is appropriately being helmed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, best known for his work on the critically acclaimed Hero and The House of Flying Daggers. Granted, a historically accurate movie about The Great Wall of China would be interesting, but this movie has monsters in it. The Great Wall is not at all an attempt at historical accuracy. As waves of massive beasts attack the wall, a huge army of elite warriors attempt to confront this seemingly unstoppable force. In The Great Wall, Matt Damon is leading humanity's fight for survival in the movie from Legendary and Universal Pictures. Luckily they didn't make us wait too long before dropping the trailer online. Legendary Pictures brought a presentation for the movie to New York Comic Con this weekend, and they just so happened to bring a new trailer along with them as well. Given the movie's February release, this is looking like it could be the first big blockbuster of 2017.
Legendary pictures have just released the latest trailer for their upcoming period action-adventure movie The Great Wall, which is a fictional take on the reasoning for the construction of The Great Wall of China. Matt Damon is back in action, but this time around he is doing construction and fighting monsters.
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