In the past year the issue of colorblind casting has come up, or just the issue of changing the race of some major, or minor characters. When the new reboot of Spider-Man was announced some person jokingly said that Donald Glover, and actor from Community and a former writer of 30 Rock should play Spider Man. The idea spread around the Internet and some people were all for it, and vocally supported the idea. But many people also were very against it since Donald Glover is African American and they claimed that changing the race of Peter Parker would fundamentally change the character and that it would ruin the movie for them.
Then more recently some people have gotten incredibly upset about the casting of Idris Elba, also a black man, in the new Thor movie, he will be playing the Norse god Heimdal. Now it should be noted that this is a Marvel movie, and in the Marvel universe the gods are actually aliens.
But anyway, do you think that established characters should should be cast as another race, would this change too much about them?
Jenny Huot, post 3
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