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'The Rocketeer' Reboot in the works, and it might upset some people
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:30 am
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:30 am
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The project, in the early development stages, is being looked at as a sequel-reboot and will be headlined by a black female character.
The Rocketeer is ready to blast off once again.
Walt Disney Studios is developing a reboot of the 1991 action adventure movie, hiring Max Winkler and Matt Spicer to pen the script for the project, which is being titled The Rocketeers.
The project, in the early development stages, is being looked at as a sequel-reboot and in a modern-day twist, will be headlined by a black female character.
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Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:32 am to RLDSC FAN
Why? frick. No.
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 11:33 am
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:32 am to RLDSC FAN
frick this gay Earth.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:35 am to RLDSC FAN
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will be headlined by a black female character.
Of course it will.
How much will it take before some of you realize that pop culture is anti-straight white male?
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:37 am to RLDSC FAN
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'The Rocketeer' Reboot in the works
kinda want
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will be headlined by a black female character.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:38 am to RLDSC FAN
Ugh. Can we please just go ahead and cast nothing but black people and women in every role for the next 3 years and call it even after that? I'm tired of this but at least that way there'll be an end in sight to thd Hollywood White Apology.
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 11:39 am
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:40 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:40 am to RLDSC FAN
It's not exactly a "reboot" as much as it is a sequel that apparently takes place 6 years later:
I could potentially be on board with this if she's maybe a member of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots that featured a diverse group and ran non-combat missions during WWII that put them in significant danger flying over enemy lines). And if it's well written and well acted.
If it's fricking Leslie Jones as a high flying farm girl, it's no dice at all.
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The new take keeps the story in a period setting and offers a fresh view on the characters. Set six years after the original Rocketeer and after Secord has vanished while fighting the Nazis, an unlikely new hero emerges: a young African–American female pilot, who takes up the mantle of Rocketeer in an attempt to stop an ambitious and corrupt rocket scientist from stealing jetpack technology in what could prove to be a turning point in the Cold War.
I could potentially be on board with this if she's maybe a member of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots that featured a diverse group and ran non-combat missions during WWII that put them in significant danger flying over enemy lines). And if it's well written and well acted.
If it's fricking Leslie Jones as a high flying farm girl, it's no dice at all.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:43 am to LoveThatMoney
They just don't get that bastardizing and shitting on established aspects of "white culture" is not an effective way to offset the inability of black culture to mature in its own right.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:44 am to BluegrassBelle
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if she's maybe a member of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots that featured a diverse group and ran non-combat missions during WWII that put them in significant danger flying over enemy lines). And if it's well written and well acted.
this would be a good why
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 11:45 am
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:44 am to RLDSC FAN
It's a sequel. They aren't recasting the main character. And the movie is a afterthought, it's not like Hollywood is making Indiana Jones a transsexual engaged in polymorphous marriage.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:48 am to Antonio Moss
When you haven't even penned a script or casted characters, it's just naked pandering and tokenism when you come out and make an announcement like this.l
Posted on 7/28/16 at 11:59 am to RLDSC FAN
Should've just went with "The Rocketqueer". You know they thought about it..
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:04 pm to BluegrassBelle
I'm ok with a new Rocketeer. It will bring much deserved attention to the original. Jennifer Connelly looked amazing in this movie.
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If it's fricking Leslie Jones as a high flying farm girl, it's no dice at all.
This post was edited on 7/28/16 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:06 pm to SnoopALoop
I suspect that whenever someone goes into a Hollywood creative meeting and they haven't come up with anything original, they just blurt out "Remake movie X, but change the races/genders!" Then everyone in the meeting is afraid of being un-PC, so they all just nod and agree with the plan.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:06 pm to RLDSC FAN
Rabble x4
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:10 pm to LucasP
Well, the He Man Woman Haters Club is still alive and well.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:15 pm to timbo
Shut up, you don't understand what it's like to have your childhood raped.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:16 pm to RLDSC FAN
When will the black girl Iron Man be released?
Posted on 7/28/16 at 12:17 pm to THRILLHO
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I suspect that whenever someone goes into a Hollywood creative meeting and they haven't come up with anything original, they just blurt out "Remake movie X, but change the races/genders!" Then everyone in the meeting is afraid of being un-PC, so they all just nod and agree with the plan.
Sounds like a South Park episode, perfect for Randy to show up of course. This shite really is out of hand though.
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