The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 2

[Mrs. Sawyer]

People flipped out over a Cheerio's commercial. And it wasnt just whites.

Not many people flipped out over that.

Youtube comments =/= a bunch people flipping out

 

[terry78]

Huh, thought y'all were all over the tube over there in England.

 

[chamber-music]

Huh, thought y'all were all over the tube over there in England.

It depends on the network and the show.

There are a lot of period drama shows so those are usually 99% white.

Public broadcasters like the BBC usually have minorities to because they have to which is why you had Homeland's David Harewood playing Friar Tuck in Robin Hood and black Genevieve on Merlin.

Channel 4 is pretty liberal so they have a number of minorities in shows.

I get the feeling the execs at Sky and ITV wouldn't make a ethnic minority the main lead in a show if they have had a gun held to their heads. There was a big scandal a few years ago about the producer behind 'old peoples Sunday afternoon murder mystery' show Midsummer Murders saying the show shouldn't have any minorities it. The guy was suspended and they upped the amount of Black and Asian people in the show.


British Black Comedian Stephen K.Amos used to joke that the BBC had a one in one out policy on giving black comedians their own show and that he had to wait for Lenny Henry to die before he got his own show. (Ironically Amos got his own show on the BBC and it flopped so he went off to Australia where Aussies find his hilarious apparently).

 

[RockSP]

I think the rumour was Denzel didn't want to hook up with White Women in movies because he didn't want to antagonize his black female audience.

The rumour came about from him refusing to kiss Julia Roberts in some movie back in the day. I don't know if it is true or not because Denzel has never acknowledged or denied it but he did have interracial relationship in his recent movie Flight with Kelly Reilly.

Actually he has denied it. He's said the romance that was in the book was not in the script.

Yeah, Flight and also in He Got Game he boinked the chick that stars in those crappy Resident Evil movies.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Not many people flipped out over that.

Youtube comments =/= a bunch people flipping out

Yeah the YT comments section is a sewer, they hate everything there.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Yeah, and for some reason the Huffington Post decide to springboard that into an angle for article over a "controversy" that didn't exist. They were pretty much spreading outrage in order to preach to the choir.

They do the same by sourcing twitter comments and it pisses me off every time they do it.

 

[DarkSentinel]

I still wanna know what the big deal with Newports is.

 

[Lencho01]

Basically interracial means white guy with *insert chick of darker shade here*. The occasionally do the white girl with non threatening Indian guy.

I remember reading somewhere that one of the unsaid reasons Sony wasn't cool with Donald Glover as Spider-Man was because of the interracial side of things.

 

[Anubis]

I wonder if Childish Gambino had gotten the part, would he be the one banging Emma Stone on the Reg....

 

[Sawyer]

I wonder if Childish Gambino had gotten the part, would he be the one banging Emma Stone on the Reg....

Nah.

Sally Field.

 

[Manic]

I remember reading somewhere that one of the unsaid reasons Sony wasn't cool with Donald Glover as Spider-Man was because of the interracial side of things.

Well, that one's just a rumor. Glover was never up for the part at all. Search Youtube for the phrases "Donald Glover" and "First Black Spiderman." It was pretty much just a joke that got out of hand.

 

[Lencho01]

Well, that one's just a rumor. Glover was never up for the part at all. Search Youtube for the phrases "Donald Glover" and "First Black Spiderman." It was pretty much just a joke that got out of hand.

Yeah, the point is that he was never up for it because he's Black, but he was cool with the idea. Sony isn't going to have Black Spider-Man, Peter or Miles (especially if the producers have their way).

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Ya know, once Garfield and Co.'s time is up, I actually wouldn't be surprised if the SONY people do try to put out either an Afro-American Peter or try to do an adaptation of Miles. They want to keep the film rights and an Afro-American Spider-Man would generate enough news and "buzz" that they'd benefit from all the controversy one way or the other.

 

[Lencho01]

Ya know, once Garfield and Co.'s time is up, I actually wouldn't be surprised if the SONY people do try to put out either an Afro-American Peter or try to do an adaptation of Miles. They want to keep the film rights and an Afro-American Spider-Man would generate enough news and "buzz" that they'd benefit from all the controversy one way or the other.

Nope. Avi Arad is going to make sure it's Peter Parker as long as he's producing...

Andrew Garfield Thinks Miles Morales Could Follow Him as Spider-Man; Producers Do Not

 

[chamber-music]

They could of cast Glover as Randy Robertson or something.

 

[Lencho01]

Glover would probably have no interest with the current Spider-Man films anyway.

 

[Manic]

It's a shame the producers have no interest in using Miles Morales, because I think there'd be a lot of potential in introducing a "little brother" supporting character for Peter to bond with. Will he become the next Spider-Man? Who knows! He'd still make for a nice addition to the cast.

 

[MadVillainy]

It's a shame the producers have no interest in using Miles Morales, because I think there'd be a lot of potential in introducing a "little brother" supporting character for Peter to bond with. Will he become the next Spider-Man? Who knows! He'd still make for a nice addition to the cast.

I feel like that will happen someday. Maybe in the next iteration depending on if Miles is still around.
Have him be like Falcon, War Machine, The Warriors 3, etc. Not there to take over, but still there

Im actually really glad that Glover didnt get Spider-Man.

 

[Silvermoth]

I would love for him to be introduced with the strong possibility of him taking over. It freshens things up and encourages the writers to take chances and explore unknown consequences

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I'm no huge fan of Miles or anything, but my answer to saying "Avi Arad aint' down with it so it will NEVER happen" is simply, "**** happens."

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Glover was never actually up for the Spider-Man role so the uproar about that in nerdland was so ****ing stupid.

 

[chamber-music]

I remember John Singleton said his starring Jamie Foxx Luke Cage film Avi Arad produced at Sony Columbia pictures didn't get made because of the studios outdated notion that a black superhero film wouldn't sell tickets despite Blade films doing well.

John Singleton has been attached to direct a film version of the comic book "Luke Cage" for years now, but even he does not know if it will ever happen. Despite all the comic book movies in production, Cage's studio, Columbia, hasn't fully embraced the black superhero, according to Singleton.

A fan of the Cage comic books, Singleton has high standards that any studio will have to accept to get him to direct it. "It's got to have a great script. We have a great script. We have a couple of great scripts. It's just a matter of some people have not got it yet. I'm not saying every studio on the board, some people haven't got it that multi-ethnic sells."

If they continue to not get it, Singleton will move on. "For me, the guy's a hero. I've been wanting to do the movie since I was a kid and I'm not going to do it unless it's right."

From an interview in 2007

What’s the holdup with ‘Luke Cage’? Is there even a script in place?

JS: There’s scripts on it. Hollywood has a very limiting view on what makes a pop culture picture. If you put a black face on it, they think it’s black thing; but yet we have all these movies that have come up and whenever they any black people in it, they make all this money. That’s the thing that’s holding ‘Luke Cage’ up. They think it’s a small superhero movie. It’s not going to be a small stupid movie like ‘Meteor Man’. I’m trying to make ‘Luke Cage’.

In the end it might of been for the best as I think the Netflix Luke Cage show will probably be better than Singleton's movie going by what he said his plans for the character were but still it sucks that studios are still so risk averse to Black superhero films.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Glover was never actually up for the Spider-Man role so the uproar about that in nerdland was so ****ing stupid.

Exactly. I was baffled by so many people freaking out about it. It was fake twitter campaign.

 

[chamber-music]

Donald Glover is voicing Miles Morales on an upcoming episode of the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.

 

[Lencho01]

Here's a clip...

Donald Glover Is The Perfect Miles Morales On Ultimate Spider-Man