Scarlet Spider
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If Wolverine needs to be in this, use Dafne Keen. Especially if the focus is a younger cast.
you guys would believe anything you read on twitter
that source has a very bad track record. There is a whole Redit post about his old tweets and.... yeah.
Obviously he didn't say too much about X-Men 97, because of all the DeMayo mess.The BTS controversy aside, the fact that Feige publicly said NOTHING about '97 Season 1 when it got Emmy nominations and consistently trended at #1 on Twitter last year on multiple occasions and all the acclaim it got from the fans and critics just goes to show how he'll handle X-Men.
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I really don't see the Wolverine taking centerstage in X-Men movies, while Cyclops and Storm merely act as supporting characters.I've already accepted the fact that we're basically going to get live action Wolverine & The X-Men. AGAIN, but with accurate costumes this time.
Prepare yourselves.
You know, I could swear we'd have race changed characters. Cyclops, Xavier and Erik, but also Jean, Rogue, Gambit and a few others possibly too. I felt there was no way the Avengers would be more diverse than the X-Men.
I don't know why you'd expect them to racebend those characters. Everybody who has been exposed to the X-Men comics, videogames, cartoons, toys/action fiures and movies are aware that Xavier, Cyclops, Jean, Gambit, Rogue and Magneto are caucasians. There's nothing wrong about staying true to their visual identity from the comics which have been adapted across many platforms. You wouldn't have a Cyclops profile picture, in the first place if you are so against about Cyclops' visual identity.You know, I could swear we'd have race changed characters. Cyclops, Xavier and Erik, but also Jean, Rogue, Gambit and a few others possibly too. I felt there was no way the Avengers would be more diverse than the X-Men.
When I look at the rumoured cast now...
But yay, comic accuracy!
I don't know why you'd expect them to racebend those characters. Everybody who has been exposed to the X-Men comics, videogames, cartoons, toys/action fiures and movies are aware that Xavier, Cyclops, Jean, Gambit, Rogue and Magneto are caucasians. There's nothing wrong about staying true to their visual identity from the comics which have been adapted across many platforms. You wouldn't have a Cyclops profile picture, in the first place if you are so against about Cyclops' visual identity.
Instead of racebending those characters (which is just going to attract negative buzz, it definitely will), just use characters like Cecilia Reyes, Jubilee, Sunfire, Bishop, Storm, Forge (to name a few) in the reboot or later on... three of those are rumoured for the movie reboot.
[threatens to post the white savior trailer again]
Part of it is looking beyond a character's skin to get a good actor. I challenge anyone to object to Jacob Anderson as Gambit, and not because of his skin color. And there is importance to look at the character, their origins, and their story in the movie, and determine if a change could help improve that. You have to understand, that "white" is such a basic starting line, such a standard, that being white is rarely important to these characters, especially when they were created. And it does work in the other way. If you have Beast with his comic accurate powers and appearance, you cannot cast a black man for the role if he isn't always blue. There is a historical reason you cannot have a black Hank McCoy with his pre-blue powers.
Ironically, you will be arguing for asian Betsy Braddock, though luckily, Marvel has indicated that is never going to happen again.
A good X-men, an X-men true to the core metaphor, would upset those people anyway. So you know what, **** them.
As for negativity around the MCU X-men, well, hard to be positive at a time when the X-Men metaphor is as relevant as ever, the parent company is caving to the bigots. It was bad enough when I just had to worry about CCP approval.
See, I didn't even mention Psylocke in the other post... and I most especially not advocating to cast a black actor for Beast.[threatens to post the white savior trailer again]
Part of it is looking beyond a character's skin to get a good actor. I challenge anyone to object to Jacob Anderson as Gambit, and not because of his skin color. And there is importance to look at the character, their origins, and their story in the movie, and determine if a change could help improve that. You have to understand, that "white" is such a basic starting line, such a standard, that being white is rarely important to these characters, especially when they were created. And it does work in the other way. If you have Beast with his comic accurate powers and appearance, you cannot cast a black man for the role if he isn't always blue. There is a historical reason you cannot have a black Hank McCoy with his pre-blue powers.
Ironically, you will be arguing for asian Betsy Braddock, though luckily, Marvel has indicated that is never going to happen again.
A good X-men, an X-men true to the core metaphor, would upset those people anyway. So you know what, **** them.
As for negativity around the MCU X-men, well, hard to be positive at a time when the X-Men metaphor is as relevant as ever, the parent company is caving to the bigots. It was bad enough when I just had to worry about CCP approval.
It amazes me how hard people will fight to preserve the whiteness of a character as opposed to the character's soul.See, I didn't even mention Psylocke in the other post... and I most especially not advocating to cast a black actor for Beast.
If race bending famous X-Men is really that of a deal breaker after 6 to 7 decades of X-Men content, then you, @Lip and @Shinobi Shaw shouldn't be bothering about the X-Men in the first place.
People want to see the X-Men look like their comic book counterparts and you shouldn't crucify people for that preference. Folks like me don't need to be told to get it. The X-Men's metaphor ranges from different marginalized groups.