I'm very familiar with Ultimate Fury and his resemblance to Sam Jackson. I still think his inclusion into the movie-verse was for racial diversity. Deodato draws Norman Osborn identical to Tommy Lee Jones and Land's Tony Stark is pretty much Sawyer from Lost. I'm not expecting those 2 actors to show up as those roles.
Why is Hollywood so opposed to casting unknowns as comic book characters? I'm sure there's a tall, strong, fat, white dude who could have pulled off the role. Affleck, Farrell, and Garner, were more than enough star power for that movie...which ended up being garbage anyway.
Perhaps I haven't read enough Thor comics, b/c I don't think Heimdall has a strong enough personality to warrant such casting deliberation. He sits at the edge of the Bifrost bridge, has visions, and wields a badass sword. Elba did a fantastic job, but he looked so out of place on Asgard to me. As somebody who's often the token black guy at gatherings, I can relate
I totally agree. But rather than go racebending to shoehorn in some minorities into the movies, the movie and comic people should get together and create new villains and heroes of their desired race. It's not like a novel where you have to use your imagination to bring the character to life. Artists have been showing us pictures of these characters as a specific race for 20+ years.
I'm a big fan of Foxx's acting work and I'm sure this movie will be awesome; it's only 1 movie in and I prefer it to Toby's trilogy. But heck yes, I'd have wanted that ridiculous mask IF this were an adaptation of the 616 universe. But like I have to keep reminding myself, these movies are some other universe where directors can do whatever they want, like the Catwoman movie.
This is where I'm confused. Who do you poll to find out which characters are major or minor and can have their races changed w/o causing too much disruption? They made Alicia Masters black in the F4 movies and nobody flinched, why is Mary Jane safe. Then again, they did cast Alba as Sue Storm.