Posted on 05/20/2026 8:52:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alright, who had Betty Boop for Hollywood's next skin-color swap?
This is reportedly a live-action film, by the way, and Brunson will play Betty Boop as herself.
From Variety:
The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer, examining the relationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own.
You just know this is gonna be super woke 😂
(I can't wait to learn how Betty Boop was actually a Marxist struggle icon in the fight against white Christofascism!)
I jest, but don't discount the rewriting of history that could happen here. Fleischer is on record telling his artists that he wanted a caricature of flapper-girl Helen Kane, who was known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" routine.
I'll link the Wikipedia source here before the woke editors inevitably change history:
One day [in 1930], Dave Fleischer handed Grim a photograph of singer, Helen Kane and asked him to design a caricature. Fleischer had found a sound-alike, and planned to use her in the upcoming Talkartoon, 'Dizzy Dishes'. Grim exaggerated Kane's wide eyes and rosebud mouth, creating a slightly coarse, but strikingly original design.
An excerpt from film magazine Photoplay in April 1932 compared the two. One month later, Kane sued Fleischer for more than $6 million in today's currency for using her likeness.
Despite this, you will see wokies and black revisionists in the comments painting an entirely different picture:
Factoring into the production of this film for the illusive modern audience is a thing called the Third Generation Curse, where the grandkids of notable public figures ruin the legacy/inheritance of their forebears. Fleischer's grandson is involved in the production of the film:
The 'Abbott Elementary' creator and Emmy winner will develop and star as Betty Boop in a feature film adaptation of the nearly century-old animated icon, Variety has learned exclusively. Brunson's company, Fifth Chance Productions, has partnered with Mark Fleischer, grandson of Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer, and Fleischer Studios on the project, which is currently in development and overseen by Fifth Chance's head of creative affairs, Erin Wehrenberg.
I have to include the Redditors making fun of the critics (you and me), because it made me laugh 😂👇
As we like to say around these parts, it's not just about swapping skin colors or genitals. It's about the purposeful Marxist strategy of hijacking and destroying the stories that unite us as a culture and as a nation.
Anyway, that's your Hollywood update for the day!
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I hope for their sake they can produce it for, like, thirty grand or thereabouts so they break even at the box office. LOL
Can’t wait to see Ryan Gosling as Martin Luther King
Betty Boop was also not bovine.
This is bound to be a huge smash hit movie.
Box office 💣
In the first Fleischer cartoons ...Betty Boop was a canine.
I thought it was common knowledge that Betty Boop’s singing style and signature catchphrase were directly inspired by a Black jazz singer named Esther Jones while her visual appearance and look after popular white flappers of the era, primarily singer Helen Kane.
In 1932, Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios and Paramount Publix Corporation for $250,000. She claimed they had stolen her likeness and her famous, baby-voiced “boop-oop-a-doop” singing style. But this backfired on Kane during the New York Supreme Court trial. Fleischer’s defense team proved that Kane did not invent the baby-voiced scatting style. Instead, Kane had stolen it from a young Black child performer named Esther Jones, known on stage as “Baby Esther”
Baby Esther was famous for dancing, making funny faces, and interpolating childlike scat sounds like “boo-boo-boo” and “doo-doo-doo” into her jazz routines
The upcoming Betty Boop feature film will focus on the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer.
So I think this isn’t race swapping as much as exploring the comingling of races in the jazzy twenties
We wuz Betty Boopz n sheeeeeeeeeeit.
A “live action” Betty Boop?
Seriously - that is not needed, necessary, etc. regardless of the race swap issue - which just makes it all the more bizarre.
Helen Mirren as Harriet Tubman.
If this is to be a historical docudrama and not a live action version of a Betty Boop cartoon, then it will do well.
I hope it is better than that other live-action Max Fleischer project POPEYE film starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duval from 1980............
I’m just waiting for a live action version of Fat Albert, starring John Goodman.
I’m just waiting for a live action version of Fat Albert, starring John Goodman.
Louis Anderson would have made a perfect Fat Albert.
He’s not fat any more.................
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True. He was the best I could come up with at the time.
Which are people familiar with?
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