Posted on 12/27/2021 12:38:13 PM PST by C19fan
A new adaptation of Jules Verne classic Around The World In 80 Days has been dismissed as 'woke nonsense' by furious BBC license payers.
The eight-part adaptation starring David Tennant as globetrotting Phileas Fogg launched on Boxing Day, but a series of socially conscious tweaks to the legendary tale left viewers choking on their turkey sandwiches.
Two notable departures from Verne's original 1872 text sees Passepartout, Fogg's loyal valet, played by a black actor - French star Ibrahim Koma - while Detective Fix also gets a modern-day makeover.
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Won’t be watching that woke garbage.
Jane Bond. Black lesbian.
It’s quite sad to see that the studios won’t pay writers for scripts with new material but instead rehash movies that were already done. The studios really have nothing to offer.
Aroumd, around, around go the satellites.
Asiatic flu is winning the fight.
Like Around the World in 80 Days too,
I've got the satellite fever and the Asiatic flu!
“Two notable departures from Verne’s original 1872 text sees Passepartout, Fogg’s loyal valet, played by a black actor...”
They couldn’t resist making the servant a black man. Racist bastards.
“why take an established storyline and set of characters, and change things just to be politically correct?”
I think you just answered your own question my friend.
A little off topic but when Gene Wilder was asked what he thought about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie being remade he had a one word reply.....”why?”.
I tend to agree with that.
The David Niven film had the Mexican comedic actor Cantiflas as Passportou
They ruin everything they touch. Face it, liberals are unimaginative losers.
I was pleasantly surprised with season 3 or the Lost in Space remake. Must be the only clean show on Netflix.
Better yet: Let’s re-do the movie “RBG” about Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a man.
Better yet, cast her as a transsexual.
I’ve heard that Netflix is very, very woke. My 35 y/o son says there’s little worth watching on it.
neither was Orphan Annie or
any of the Wizard of Oz or
Yul Brynner(The Magnificent 7) or
Amos & Andy, or
Karate Kid or
Cinderella with Whitney Houston, Whoopi and an Asian Prince or
Steel Magnolias or
12 Angry Men or
Death at a Funeral or
About Last Night or
Joy Reid with straight soft curly blond hair
and enough of the movie “White Chicks”.
I’ll definitely pass.
The original series can’t be touched.
The plot was beyond absurd.
Imagine if the movie SHAFT would have been remade with say, Bruce Wilis in the lead role.......I’m sure you would’ve been able to hear the howls of racism from outside the earth’s atmosphere.
Ghostbusters (2016) Budget $144 million Box office $229.1 million
Charlie’s Angels (2019) Budget $48–55 million Box office $73.3 millio
Captain Marvel (2019) Budget $152–175 million Box office $1.128 billion
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Budget $200 million Box office $166.5 million
West Side Story 1961 (2021) Budget $100 million Box office $36.6 million
There’s nothing woke cannot ruin.
There is no reason it won't be a woke crapfest. Carter will probably be a dyke lesbian and Daniel(le) Jackson will a transgender female. I'll let others decide what the rest of the cast will be.
Ralph and Norton would be a mixed race gay couple. Alice and Trixie would be the lesbian transgender neighbors.
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