Behind Warner Bros.’ Search for a Black Superman

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | MAY 5, 2021 | Tatiana Siegel, Borys Kit

[Magnum44]

[Flick Lives]

Audiences don’t particularly cares about the character’s outside, they care about the character’s inside.

[longtermmemmory]

this is about destroying the original.

This “author” is a disaster and just an downright bad writer.

Jar Jar (cut and paste) Abrams destroys yet ANOTHER franchise

[Myrddin]

Hollywood has no original thinkers. Everything is a rehash of the old except with changed genders or races to rewrite the narrative. The consequence is that I have purchased few movies in the last 20 years. I purchased a copy of Equalizer 2 on the merits of my appreciation for Denzel Washington's other movies. I liked it enough to purchase the first one. Dwayne Johnson, Liam Neeson and Gerard Butler have earned purchases for the same reason.

[BiteYourSelf]

Yup there he is.🤔

[Myrddin]

Jar Jar (cut and paste) Abrams destroys yet ANOTHER franchise

Agree. I picked up a copy of Cloverfield from the $5 bin. The shaky camera crap made me nauseous in the first 10 minutes. I turned it off and never watched it again.

[Zathras]

Make it a Tranny.
That will really help the brand name. /LOL

[brownsfan]

Hey, it worked for “Hamilton”.
There are hoards of idiots thirsting for a way to show their virtue.

[Trinity5]

Yes Shaq already did this... Steel. It was based on the four story lines that emerged after the death of Superman.

https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Reign_of_the_Supermen

[dware]

All superheroes now come from Wakanda.

[bgill]

Right, you are. Those black Little Orphan Annies and Hamiltons were soooo not woke. At least The Wiz starred Jackson who was confused on both gender, race and failed at adulting.

[PapaBear3625]

Why does there need to be black Superman?

Bigger question: why would Superman, a member of an alien race, look even remotely like an earth human?

[CTyank]

The last movie I saw in the theater was ‘Black Mass’ - and only because my wife grew up in Quincy(pronounced Quinzee), MA.

[be-baw]

“They are already producing a backstory movie just about Cyborg.”

I don’t think that will happen. Ray Fisher, the guy that played him, seems to be persona non grata with Warner Bros. now. He has done a lot of public bellyaching about how some of the creators treated him. Racism, ya know. WB investigated his complaints and concluded they was no substance to his complaints.

[Sirius Lee]

He has done a lot of public bellyaching about how some of the creators treated him. Racism, ya know.

Then they should make a Cyborg movie and cast a white guy in the role. That would be awesome.

[KC_Lion]

Why not just keep him white?

[sphinx]

I think this calls for a trilogy: a black Superman, an Asian Black Panther, and the Rock playing Supergirl.

[Midwesterner53]

How about a man trapped in the body of a lesbian?

[Scrambler Bob]

Well, it is obvious:

Serena Williams

[Scrambler Bob]

Comic Books Always Racist?

= = =

Of course.

Printed on White paper.

Using ‘Colored’ ink for a profit.

And about that ‘printed’; should have been ‘eboniced’.