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Post by politicidal on Sept 16, 2019 23:16:01 GMT
Even one of the Democratic presidential candidates is getting involved.
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Ever since Disney brought the character rights for the X-Men back into the Marvel Studios fold, fans have wondered what Marvel's X-Men will look like as well as when they will ultimately make their MCU debut. Marvel has been tight-lipped about their plans for the Children of the Atom, but a recent rumor indicated that Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige has a plan to recast the roles of Professor X and Magneto with African-American actors. This would be a big change for those characters, as they've traditionally been caucasian both in the comics and in Fox's previous movie franchise, but during a recent conversation with TMZ, Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg thinks that kind of change is what makes comic books and movies based on them work so well.
"I don't think there's anything about the role that makes it white," Buttigieg said. "Look, certainly the actors that have portrayed Magneto and Professor X in the past were brilliant, but it's not because they were white and it doesn't have to be them forever. Look, one of the beauties of making comic books into movies is that you can reimagine them constantly, and there's nothing intrinsically white about any of those character roles."
For Buttigieg, it ultimately comes down to whether the movie and the actors in that movie are good, whether you're talking about superhero films or some other franchise, and luckily Marvel Studios has a pretty good track record in that regard.
"I think whether we're talking about James Bond or whether we're talking about comic books, it makes sense for the portrayal of these characters to reflect the amazing cultural diversity of the country, our country, producing the films," Buttigieg said. "And you know, I just care about whether it's going to be good, and I believe they're up to that in producing a new film and I would love to see that kind of diversity."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 23:48:51 GMT
I'm all for it. As great as Stewart, Mckellen, McCoy, Fasbender were the MCU needs to do something to differentiate themselves from Fox. I think Magneto needs an update to his backstory since it's hard to have a holocaust survivor in this century without some stupid time travel or slow aging thing. I suggested before Mahershala Ali as Magneto and being a survivor of the Rowanda genocide (which was the most recent one that came to mind only for another helpful poster I forget who to mention a ton of others like Serbia).
In short, I'm for it. Just get a good actor for the role.
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Post by ThatGuy on Sept 17, 2019 1:18:20 GMT
That's good and all, but Wanda...
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 17, 2019 1:33:08 GMT
As long as they make Storm a Nordic woman to balance it out.
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Post by DarkManX on Sept 17, 2019 1:50:12 GMT
Marvel scared of angry e-mails and kissing SJW ass. Nothing new.
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Post by thenolan on Sept 17, 2019 4:01:20 GMT
Terrible idea. Unfortunately MCU will try to milk the race card again. Remember black panther? Bad film but we got attacked for saying it is. The same will happen here.
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Post by thenolan on Sept 17, 2019 4:03:37 GMT
That's good and all, but Wanda... Its a bad idea. its only a good idea for people that can't craft anything great and need to use the race card , remember black panther?
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Post by thenolan on Sept 17, 2019 4:05:57 GMT
Marvel scared of angry e-mails and kissing SJW ass. Nothing new. SJWs are the people with bad movies. Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Ghostbusters.
They need to stan this shit as they can't base any of these movies on the quality.
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Post by ThatGuy on Sept 17, 2019 16:06:04 GMT
That's good and all, but Wanda... Its a bad idea. its only a good idea for people that can't craft anything great and need to use the race card , remember black panther? It's not pulling the race card. It's trying to find a reason. Magneto can't be attached to WW2 because he would be too old. Also, all mutants don't have a healing factor! Even still, it only said persons of color. Doesn't mean they will be black. Just not white.
Funny you call out Black Panther, but Aquaman.
Not gonna reply to you after this. Invalid...
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Post by blockbusted on Sept 18, 2019 16:57:27 GMT
I'm all for it. As great as Stewart, Mckellen, McCoy, Fasbender were the MCU needs to do something to differentiate themselves from Fox. I think Magneto needs an update to his backstory since it's hard to have a holocaust survivor in this century without some stupid time travel or slow aging thing. I suggested before Mahershala Ali as Magneto and being a survivor of the Rowanda genocide (which was the most recent one that came to mind only for another helpful poster I forget who to mention a ton of others like Serbia). In short, I'm for it. Just get a good actor for the role. I think Apartheid would be a better option. |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 18, 2019 17:00:10 GMT
I'm all for it. As great as Stewart, Mckellen, McCoy, Fasbender were the MCU needs to do something to differentiate themselves from Fox. I think Magneto needs an update to his backstory since it's hard to have a holocaust survivor in this century without some stupid time travel or slow aging thing. I suggested before Mahershala Ali as Magneto and being a survivor of the Rowanda genocide (which was the most recent one that came to mind only for another helpful poster I forget who to mention a ton of others like Serbia). In short, I'm for it. Just get a good actor for the role. I think Apartheid would be a better option. Or he moved to Rwanda because of Apartheid and still wasn't safe. Worst of both worlds to hone in man's inhumanity to man.
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Post by ThatGuy on Sept 18, 2019 22:06:25 GMT
I don't think he should be attached to a real world event. It should be something personal. Like in X-men Apocalypse. Except make it something racist to him being a mutant instead of cops coming to arrest a confirmed terrorist and accidentally killing his family.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 19, 2019 0:09:10 GMT
I don't think he should be attached to a real world event. It should be something personal. Like in X-men Apocalypse. Except make it something racist to him being a mutant instead of cops coming to arrest a confirmed terrorist and accidentally killing his family. How about making him a native of Genosha and he was raised under their anti-mutant regime?
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Post by Vassaggo on Sept 19, 2019 9:10:02 GMT
I was hoping they would use the Bosnian Genocide in lieu of Holocaust. It happened in 1991 and if Eric was a teenager when it happened he would be roughly the right age. I also hoped they made Mutants really really rare and the snap (mostly Gama) activates the X-gene. Historically, the Romani was one of the peoples that were ethnically cleansed.
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Post by dazz on Sept 19, 2019 11:59:23 GMT
I think they could get away with Charles if he is young enough, he kind of fits like Batman in doesn't he come from old money hence all the shit they have? if so you cant really have a 50yr old black guy come from this wealthy family due to just how shit used to be, if they are 30ish or younger it works better unless you plan to introduce another huge thing to Charles where he now mirros Magneto in having grown up being persecuted for his race, which kind of takes away from Magneto, or you make Charles Asian so he comes from old money but not white money, and he's like 1st gen Asian American or something, but one thing to me that makes Magneto more sympathetic is his history that Charles doesn't have, Charles can preach all he wants but he's never been persecuted and hated like Magneto was and stuff, Charles passes for human and is treated as such, he doesn't "know" true persecution like Magneto, to have them both grow up persecuted and hated makes Magneto's stance less sympathetic imo next to Charles we can have peace ideals.
Magneto could be as black as the night sky the key to him isn't the Nazi's it's the persecution and hate he was exposed to so young, you can do this easily with other genocides which we sadly have far too many to count from, one thing the Nazi's do give is a easily identifiable reason for Magneto's rage, we all know the Nazi's 99.9% of us hate them, the rest of you get help, but they are easily understood as a catalyst for Magneto's story and to sympathise with him, they could get the same results with a new backstory and event but it would require more effort, in X1 all it took was the opening scene and a glance at his arm as an old man, and that line he gives to the senator or whoever he was meant so much, doesn't work quite so well without the context and the movie didn't need to provide it really as we all know who the Nazi's were and what they did.
I think it could work but probably best to keep Charles white but Magneto could be anything, I would stay away from black though and go latino honestly, I think it's less obvious but it can carry the same weight with some effort.
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Post by ThatGuy on Sept 19, 2019 18:39:57 GMT
I don't think he should be attached to a real world event. It should be something personal. Like in X-men Apocalypse. Except make it something racist to him being a mutant instead of cops coming to arrest a confirmed terrorist and accidentally killing his family. How about making him a native of Genosha and he was raised under their anti-mutant regime? I'd be down with that. It could lead to an adaption of X-Tinction Agenda.
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