Marvel’s Doctor Strange faced similar backlash with the casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One.
In the comics, The Ancient One is an Tibetan man, so fans were gobsmacked to see the role was changed to a Celtic woman.
And while folks seemed to find the same issues with this casting, Doctor Strange wasn’t DOA the way that Ghost in the Shell seemed to be.
But Doctor Strange also fared better with critics, although Paramount’s Kyle Davies seems to imply that Ghost’s reviews were poor due to the controversy, rather than the film itself.