Surprised I didnt see any crying here about Commissioner Gordon being black now in the Matt Reeves Batman or something, for someone to be that salty over the Leon actor.
I would imagine it's partially because Leon has a much bigger fanbase than Jim Gordon does.
That, and after the Snyder version of Batman, I would imagine a lot of people will tolerate Gordon being changed if it means getting a decent Batman movie.
There’s that, plus I also don’t care much for Batman, nor his team and friends. Where as Leon was the first character I played with when I was first introduced into the RE series.
But what annoys me more, are people that are mad that a Black person refuses to except existing white characters being turned into minorities to appeal to me. I mean, that’s straight up Bizarro world.
Would it not be far better to create actually minority characters instead?
Imagine the anger if Disney/Marvel where to make the new Black Panther Chinese just to appease to the Chinese market?
Also, Barbara is a red head, how is that going to play if she’s ever introduced
Avan (the guy picked as Leon) probably would've been easier to see as Carlos or someone, but if he's got the range to pull off Leon well, then don't really care. It's your hill to die on if this film's ruined for you just off of one guy's ethnicity.
Range has noting to do with this. What annoys me is the blatant insult minorities are given. Hollywood/Comics industry are saying, you minorities monies are good, so we’ll pander to you by taking a character with years of stories that happens to be white and turned them Black or whatever.
Yeah, this still looks better than the Alice films or Mortal Kombat 2021. I get why people aren't quite sold on it though. Some of the casting which the trailer didn't make me feel better about, looking like they'll rush plot points between RE 1 and 2, the Lisa Trevor thing, and such. But still curious enough to check out.
Live Action Resident Evil movies will never work and not be taken seriously because the games ideas were just a mishmash of John Carpenters The Thing, George A. Romero's Zombie movies and even the Fox Alien movies.
I enjoyed the trailer, at least when compared to the other largely terrible movies, it looks good and as long as the script isn't overly stupid (big ask I know) it might be fun.
Are people really complaining about Leon being race swapped? It's not like the actor playing him is Yaphet Kotto ffs, he'll probably just look like a tanned white guy TBH.
However the race swapping will be noticeable when Leon gives that great speech from the game about being white, the scenes where he discovers his white heritage will be a problem too.
__________________ Then lets head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch
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