If you can't find the time to get an actor who is good for the part and actually looks like the character, it doesn't exactly bode well for the film.
Also it's because I'm a huge racist.
I think they said that at the time the only white guys they could come up with who looked remotely like the Kingpin were random pro-wrestlers. All things considered, I'm OK with him being black and Michael Clarke Duncan.
It's not like the Kingpin was just a dude with a certain color hair; he was a sophisticated, bald, illegitimate businessman who happened to be toting around like 500 pounds. There isn't a huge pool of actors who can just jump into that. (Although after Tropic Thunder, maybe they can have Tom Cruise be Kingpin when they reboot Daredevil).
The other two good ones are Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin and CJ in San Andreas for watching nerds splutter about trying not to sound racist when their view essentially boils down to "fuck black people!"
I don't see how one is comparable to the other. CJ wasn't an established character of a popular intellectual property. The Kingpin was. Yeah, I hate it when they needlessly change the ethnicity for characters of established IPs. I don't see how it is any different from hating that they completely changed a character's costume or hairstyle.
you can't have a white guy as huge and imposing as michael clarke duncan is
he is absolutely perfect for the role of kingpin and if they reboot daredevil I want him to be cast in the role again
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Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
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Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
Marvel 1602 style - woo!
I'm sure there are large white guys in Hollywood. I think there are significantly less of them with acting chops like Michael Clarke Duncan.
Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
collective monocle pop?
tube, you are a wordsmith
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This is going to cause so much nerdrage
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Riots in the streets. Special Police dressed like Frank shooting the protesters in the streets. Robert Khoo on TV as the Information Minister claiming nothing is wrong and the infidels are being killed at the gates of Pennies Arcades Headquarters.
Ugh
This is going to cause so much nerdrage
All getting their neckbeards in a twist
Typing furiously, "Where's my vote?"
Wearing silver armbands
Riots in the streets. Special Police dressed like Frank shooting the protesters in the streets. Robert Khoo on TV as the Information Minister claiming nothing is wrong and the infidels are being killed at the gates of Pennies Arcades Headquarters.
Claiming the whole uprising is obviously being secretly backed by Scott Kurtz.
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I would love to see an avatar movie starring Morgan Freeman.
I know nothing about avatar.
It's just that it's a movie starring Morgan Freeman with the possibility of flying and kung fu.
Mint.
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Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
To be fair here, 300 had basically nothing to do with real-world Sparta. I mean, "those dudes ain't Greek" gets trumped by them fighting armies of ninjas and troll-men and dwarves riding on freakmonsters and whatever else. Like zero percent of that story was accurate except the highest-level plot summary.
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Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
To be fair here, 300 had basically nothing to do with real-world Sparta. I mean, "those dudes ain't Greek" gets trumped by them fighting armies of ninjas and troll-men and dwarves riding on freakmonsters and whatever else. Like zero percent of that story was accurate except the highest-level plot summary.
also the rampant homophobia, even though the homosexual relationships were a major part of the entire culture
The other two good ones are Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin and CJ in San Andreas for watching nerds splutter about trying not to sound racist when their view essentially boils down to "fuck black people!"
Hey, I didn't think Michael Clarke Duncan did a bad job or anything. I just don't buy the idea that there are no large white men in Hollywood. I'm wondering how you people would have reacted to a black Sulu or a native American Captain America.
That last example would actually be kind of cool.
But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
To be fair here, 300 had basically nothing to do with real-world Sparta. I mean, "those dudes ain't Greek" gets trumped by them fighting armies of ninjas and troll-men and dwarves riding on freakmonsters and whatever else. Like zero percent of that story was accurate except the highest-level plot summary.
also the rampant homophobia, even though the homosexual relationships were a major part of the entire culture
And yet the film was so incredibly homoerotic pretty much all the way through.
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I think they said that at the time the only white guys they could come up with who looked remotely like the Kingpin were random pro-wrestlers. All things considered, I'm OK with him being black and Michael Clarke Duncan.
It's not like the Kingpin was just a dude with a certain color hair; he was a sophisticated, bald, illegitimate businessman who happened to be toting around like 500 pounds. There isn't a huge pool of actors who can just jump into that. (Although after Tropic Thunder, maybe they can have Tom Cruise be Kingpin when they reboot Daredevil).
you can't have a white guy as huge and imposing as michael clarke duncan is
he is absolutely perfect for the role of kingpin and if they reboot daredevil I want him to be cast in the role again
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That last example would actually be kind of cool.
Marvel 1602 style - woo!
I'm sure there are large white guys in Hollywood. I think there are significantly less of them with acting chops like Michael Clarke Duncan.
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But Sulu's race has an actual function in the setting. The Kingpin's doesn't. There has literally never been a prominent plotline in the marvel universe in which the Kingpin's race played a prominent part. It's an irrelevance. It's interesting that no one gave a shit that the Spartans in 300 were manifestly not of mediteranean origin but there is a collective monocle pop over a black guy being so uppity as to think he can play the Kingpin. Which he did very well.
Everybody wins!
They seemed pretty excited about it
And then they're gonna do Automata
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no they're going to do Berk's Automata Lookouts obviously
collective monocle pop?
tube, you are a wordsmith
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Lookouts isn't available for purchase as a print.
If not, I hope it becomes available soon.
This is going to cause so much nerdrage
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Automata next month and Lookouts in August
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I know nothing about avatar.
It's just that it's a movie starring Morgan Freeman with the possibility of flying and kung fu.
Mint.
To be fair here, 300 had basically nothing to do with real-world Sparta. I mean, "those dudes ain't Greek" gets trumped by them fighting armies of ninjas and troll-men and dwarves riding on freakmonsters and whatever else. Like zero percent of that story was accurate except the highest-level plot summary.
also the rampant homophobia, even though the homosexual relationships were a major part of the entire culture
he's the best giant black man
Tony Lister Jr. is a close second
good lord I love you
what about James Earl Jones
Fuckin' Sandlot man
And yet the film was so incredibly homoerotic pretty much all the way through.