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Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:12 pm to Two0Five
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Denzel's Man on Fire
Denzel’s Macbeth
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:21 pm to Freauxzen
Steve Martin in The Jerk
The character was born a poor black child
The character was born a poor black child
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:24 pm to cgrand
black Kingpin and black Nick Fury aren't too bad
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:25 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Donner was casting two white actors. The casting director pointed out that race wasn't mentioned in the script, and that Glover would be perfect.
That turned out to be a great decision. One of the GOAT buddy cop movies. They did a fantastic job with character development - we know Riggs and Murtaugh very well for someone we saw for less than 8 hours.
One theme I'm noticing is these changes work most often with the movie adaptation of a book.
And I just remembered another example: Bubba was white in the Forrest Gump book.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 2:54 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Donner was casting two white actors. The casting director pointed out that race wasn't mentioned in the script, and that Glover would be perfect.
So nothing was race swapped
Posted on 5/16/26 at 3:08 pm to Hester Carries
This one doesn't really count but the dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude deserves to be mentioned:
Posted on 5/16/26 at 5:23 pm to cgrand
Billy D Williams as Harvey Dent in Batman(1989). Many major cities were majority black by the 80’s, and had started having a good deal of black politicians, police chiefs, da’s etc. It would have seemed stranger if there weren’t some minority representation in local government.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 6:23 pm to cgrand
Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice.
It was written for Sammy Davis Jr
It was written for Sammy Davis Jr
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:02 pm to Brosef Stalin
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black Kingpin and black Nick Fury aren't too bad
Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin in the Daredevil movie was a great call. He's huge. He's physically imposing. He's calculated. And he looks like he could run New York on his own. MCD checked every box. Had no issue with his casting, at all. Movie wasn't good, but it wasn't his fault.
D'Onofrio has made it his character, but he's had far better source material with which to work.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 7:05 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:25 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Without Remorse
Are you fricking retarded or just didn’t read the book?
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:27 pm to Obtuse1
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Not the same, but the switch from XXL to snack-size Reacher in the movies worked, at least for me.
Agree. Because Cruise.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:30 pm to rebelrouser
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This one doesn't really count but the dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude deserves to be mentioned
That kinda turned everything upside down, and somehow didn’t get cancelled. It’s actually a great moment where things could still be funny and not snowflaky.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:34 pm to cgrand
Her panties are blazing for you!!!!
Posted on 5/16/26 at 7:53 pm to Kinderman
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Its crazy to think about how if this movie was coming out in 6 months, many posters here wouldn't even have given Morgan Freeman's Red a chance. Woulda bitched about how it "couldnt possibly be a faithful adaptation" of Red if the actor was black.
But back in the 90s, people waited to see how the character came across on screen before they started bitching about casting choices.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 8:10 pm to cgrand
I was against swapping Starbuck initially, but damn, Katie won me over. She should have been picked as Captain Marvel. She's got personality.
Others...
Nick Fury - Samuel L. Jackson.
Heimdall - Idris Elba
Perry White - Lawrence Fishburn
Eartha Kitt - Catwoman - it works.
Others...
Nick Fury - Samuel L. Jackson.
Heimdall - Idris Elba
Perry White - Lawrence Fishburn
Eartha Kitt - Catwoman - it works.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 8:30 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Clancy's John Clark.
Liev Schreiber was by far the best and closest version we'll likely get.
Clark was a former college swimmer, and Navy Seal. Midwestern as they came.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 8:49 pm to cgrand
Carl Anderson as black Judas
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 8:50 pm
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