One of the first curious details about Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot came when actor Ed Skrein was cast as Ben Daimio. In the Hellboy comics, Daimio’s always been Japanese-American. Skrein, notably, has always been quite white, and so the question on everyone’s minds at the time was what, exactly, was Lionsgate…
Source: io9 – Hellboy’s Producer Discusses the Thinking Behind That Ben Daimio Whitewashing ‘Mistake’