Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, May 25, 2018) Movie • Page 16

What's wrong with what they did?

 

they replaced a black person with a white person

 

How are the creators so out of touch? C'mon Opie, we ain't in Mayberry anymore

 

They had to reshoot stuff and he wasn't available, so they had to go with someone else.

 

Yep. No other black actors exist or would have loved to be in the Han Solo movie. Had to be a white guy. Just had to.

 

Boiling it down to black vs white is stupid. Bettany is a good actor. Maybe there wasn't anyone else available on that level.

Would people be upset if he was recast with a Mexican actor? Or Asian?

 

Not as upset. But a character cast initially as black being replaced by a white guy fucking sucks. There are a million great black actors. This is Star Wars. They don't need fucking Paul Bettany. He's not the draw to this movie, so I don't know why they needed someone "on his level".

 

Plus, Williams was playing a motion capture alien.

The Han Solo Movie Casts Paul Bettany

They wanted to do reshoots, Williams wasn't available to do more, so they changed the character completely and hired Bettany.

This isn't an issue.

 

Can we just ban this fronkensteen guy and call it a day? We don't need this conversation.

 

Fuck that shit. There isn't anything wrong with what they did.

Discuss the situation instead of being a crybaby.

 

Do you think that it is, at the very least, unfortunate that a person of color was replaced with a white guy, regardless of whether or not they were a motion captured character? You can see how that at least looks bad, right?

 

I don't need much of a push for that one.

I should trust my instincts more. Usually the worst posters stay the worst posters.

 

It probably was not intentional, but it looks really bad to replace a black character with a white one. Regarding the motion capture thing, that seems to be a trend in these movies. They took that girl from 12 Years a Slave, who was at the height of her career, and made her some random alien with ten minutes of screen time.

I am more interested in what has to happen for people to refuse to see this movie. Between replacing the directors and this, it seems like more people would back away, but of course it does not come out for a long time.

 

Ahhh... This thread feels less dickish already. Good job haha

 

Ron just wanted to cast his buddy, which is shitty and selfish.

 

It is really shitty how often black actors are cast as CGI or fantasy creatures in sci fi and fantasy. Zoe Saldana in Avatar, Rihanna in Valeryian, most of the orcs in Lord of the Rings, orcs in Warcraft, Lupita Nyong'o in the Force Awakens, Jar Jar Binks and the Gungans in the prequels, Idris Elba in Star Trek: Beyond, etc etc.

 

Ahh, I see they dropped the Han.

 

Two directors -> two words.
One director -> one word.

 

Does this mean it's coming out seven months earlier than originally thought

 

pretty excited about this honestly. the cast has me hyped up.

 

Always had that date, it's just the rare Star Wars movie that didn't get pushed back to December like VIII/IX did.

 

Rogue One was always December wasn’t it?

It’s weird that the movies that, at least publicly, had the most drama somehow stay on schedule.

 

I honestly prefer December dates for Star Wars. It has a nice feel to it every year. They can be their own thing with zero competition for a month or so.

 

I like may bc it’s sooner than december