This brings up the issue with the Human Torch in Fantastic Four movies - the character was always white, and was cast twice with white actors, then, inexplicably he was cast with a black actor. apparently for pure pandering to woke demographics.
And it wasn't a case of a black actor playing a white character (such as in Hamilton), but the character was now supposed to be black as his father in the movie was, but his white sister (always his biological sibling) was now adopted!
(Whew! The hoops they have to jump thru for the sake of tokenism)!
But now, rumor has it that the next recasting of the Human Torch in the next FF movie will be with a white actor? Wha-wha-wha?
But I thought he was now black? (And yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the explanation is these are all different yet concurrent, alternate continuities - the entire concept of which itself has irrevocably hurt both comics and movies... There's hardly any such thing anymore as a unique, one-and-only, iconic, definitive character when they can all be replaced by counter-continuity doppelgangers!)
P.S. I apologize in advance for posting this here as I know there is an entire alternate, concurrent thread devoted just to this subject.
And it wasn't a case of a black actor playing a white character (such as in Hamilton), but the character was now supposed to be black as his father in the movie was, but his white sister (always his biological sibling) was now adopted!
(Whew! The hoops they have to jump thru for the sake of tokenism)!
But now, rumor has it that the next recasting of the Human Torch in the next FF movie will be with a white actor? Wha-wha-wha?
But I thought he was now black? (And yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the explanation is these are all different yet concurrent, alternate continuities - the entire concept of which itself has irrevocably hurt both comics and movies... There's hardly any such thing anymore as a unique, one-and-only, iconic, definitive character when they can all be replaced by counter-continuity doppelgangers!)
P.S. I apologize in advance for posting this here as I know there is an entire alternate, concurrent thread devoted just to this subject.