[SeekAndFind]

it makes absolutely no sense to cast an African as the woman who was widely perceived across the known Greek world as the defining model of beauty. Nyong'o is beautiful, of course, but not in the style of classical Greece with its paragons of different characteristics. It would be a decision so absurd that it could only be made as a conscious effort to take a sledgehammer to the edifice of truth and Western culture, and to also rub a thumb in the eye of the American audiences who are tired of all this nonsense.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“The face that? launched a thousand ships” is going to sink Christopher’s next movie.

[dfwgator]

Seems Helen of Troy has found a new face, again.

[microgood]

That decision will cost some serious box office. Snow White revisited.

[xp38]

For a movie to work one has to suspend disbelief and be drawn into the story. Woke absurdity prevents that and all you have left is mocking amusement but that wears thin pretty quickly and you question why one is wasting time on such crap.

[Organic Panic]

Why is everyone replaced with a black African? Why not someone oriental? Or Mongolian? Always black.

[Organic Panic]

We wuz helenz

[TigersEye]

The 2004 Helen appears to be Norwegian or Swedish.
Now in 2026 they intend to make Helen an African.

Someday someone will have the novel idea of hiring a Greek actress to play Helen.

[stanne]

Chris Nolan is just not woke Hollywood. Go from there

[ArcadeQuarters]

Yes they will. Easy question.

(Answer also applies to all other White or light skinned historical figures.)

[T.B. Yoits]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I think she would be better cast as Prissy in Gone With The Wind.

[dznutz]

[FreedomCalls]

What's next? Casting a black woman to play Anne Boleyn? Even Hollywood isn't that stupid.

[Bernard]

That girl who sank the Disney remake of Snow Mocha will be in charge of public relations, and Bad Bunny will be doing the soundtrack.

[Rocco DiPippo]

It's a shame that this leftist Hollywood scumbag didn't write Helen of Troy as a screeching, ugly, murderous tranny, complete with crazily smeared lipstick like Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet." I'd have paid to see that. At least it would have been hilarious.

Instead, now we're going to get, "Yo Marc Antonious L.Shaniqua -Y U B disrespectin' mah azz! Ima lunch a thousin ship on yo' azz m*uthaf*cka!" Twerk! Twerk! Screech! Screech! Screech! Grunt! Grunt!

[Tom Tetroxide]

Helen of Troy? More like Helen of Detroit!

[Tom Tetroxide]

[Penelope Dreadful]

The Face That Launched A Couple of Baby Daddies???

[Nateman]

Racism did not exist in the ancient world. The concept of race is a fairly recent one. At the time they attributed skin color to where you were born. Helen of Troy would not look like Hell-No of Detroit.

[Candor7]

In Japan they had to tolerate a fabricated revisionist history of a Black Samurai.

Really ?

Its all like claiming that Zulu Chief Shaka was a White Man !

We need to do a movie portraying Shaka Zulu as a white man !

Shaka was actually a stranded Viking who married into the Shaka lineage ad was elevated to the Chiefship due to his having over 50 wives !