Nigel P
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It looks good and I like his origin story. I hope they are holding back on some of the more psychedelic stuff.
I don't know that I'd say that Marvel's casts are diverse because they cast a white guy as the lead and then generally, they get one or maybe two black guys in supporting roles and one or two white women and after that, not too many other types of people get significant roles. I do agree that it's more indicative of the audience than Hollywood though. Studios have basically worked out the equation that having one or two black guys & a white woman in their movies will keep them out of trouble on social media but simultaneously not scare off alot of white people.Unfortunately, this came at a time when there is a lot of "whitewashing" in Hollywood, particularly with giving Asian female parts to white actresses. I'm not sure that's what happened in Marvel's case here. Their casts are pretty diverse, so I don't think they are protecting their box office by casting a white actor (except, of course, they are protecting their Chinese box office by not making the character Tibetan). It has always seemed to me that Hollywood's perceived racism has as much to do with the racism of broadest movie-going public (the lowest common denominator, if you will) as it does with the cowardice of Hollywood executives.
I don't know that I'd say that Marvel's casts are diverse because they cast a white guy as the lead and then generally, they get one or maybe two black guys in supporting roles and one or two white women and after that, not too many other types of people get significant roles. I do agree that it's more indicative of the audience than Hollywood though. Studios have basically worked out the equation that having one or two black guys & a white woman in their movies will keep them out of trouble on social media but simultaneously not scare off alot of white people.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/doctor-strange-enlists-dan-harmon-922236
When Marvel Studios needed a writer to whip up some additional last-minute scenes for its latest comic book movie, Doctor Strange, it called on one writer in Hollywood you would least expect: Dan Harmon, co-creator of Community, the beloved but ratings-anemic sitcom about a bunch of community college misfits that was canceled by NBC in 2013 (but came back to life on Yahoo last year).