>>> By miss casting the title role the movie is sure to be a box office flop.
I have no particular opinion about the actor playing the title role, but the title role is not Heimdall. If they want a black Heimdall, why not?
For what it’s worth, I similarly was initially against the black actor being cast in the Spiderman movie as the Kingpin. Kingpin wasn’t black. After a couple minutes I let it go, recognizing the Green Mile actor other then for his skin color was actually an excellent choice.
Heimdall is a son of Odin and is the watchmen of the gods at Bifrost, the bridge that links Asgard and Midgard. He will sound the Gjallarhorn to call the gods to Ragnarok when the Frost Giants attack.
However he is also the son of nine maidens, who are also sisters. What these maidens were is the subject of conjecture. Some say they were the waves of the sea, some that they were giantesses or even valkyries. Their names, though, have been recorded: Gjalp, Greip, Eistla, Eyrgiafa, Ulfun, Angeyja, Imdr, Atla and Jarnsaxa.
As Rig he is the father of mankind. With his sons, Thrall, Karl and Jarl.
So actually, if you consider it there is no reason why you can’t have a black Aesir. Odin was a man about town. “It’s good to be da king”.
Just what we need, another God-like being with no birth certificate, LOL
Heimdall is known as “the father of mankind” because among his children were slaves, freemen and princes. His sons were not named Thrall Karl and Jarl; Thrall means slave, Karl means freeman, and Jarl means lord or prince.
Odin was indeed famous for wandering, and who knows where he picked up those nine sisters!
Hopefully, like Kingpin in Daredevil (not Spiderman), the actor in the roll will transcend his skin color and play a good character.