[Actually Kotaku] Operation Coon City
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It's not that he's black
It's that his name could have been Donnie McFarlane or Chance Smithmason or some other new and interesting character. But they didn't. They appropriated an existing character to save themselves the labor of creativity, and made him black because it's trendy
This. I love that actor, but just make a new character. He’s not Wesker. It’s not because he’s black it’s because his personality and mannerisms and everything else aren’t at all like Wesker. Just make a new fucking character.
And also, because he's black and Wesker is white. Stop excusing this crap.
Ah yes, I see great similarity in the hair.
Not my wesker
Someone made a horrible joke that made me chuckle a bit.. that is wesker after we RPGed him into a volcano. Gg...
Since I do not browse Netflix, is this a diversity formula required for all Netflix shows?
Netflix has the following rules:
The show must not reflect the source material except in the most superficial ways.
You must replace (not make new, replace) one white character with a checkbox casting.
The less sense the checkbox role is, the better your chances of being greenlit.
The show must be "based on" source material that is popular, in the same way that many horror movies are "based on" a true story.
Your staff must have more hair colors than people over 100IQ.
The casting couch still applies, and can override any prior rule on a couch by couch basis.
Actually... yeah.
I can't think of one American-made production for Netflix that isn't steeped in token degeneracy.
He's a good actor, but a terrible Wesker.
Bonus points: he was just criminally misunderstood because it was an evil white man behind the scenes making him do evil things instead.
Resident Internalized White Supremacy
Man, an actual adaptation of that book would be a cool take on the zombie apocalypse genre. Too bad the average movie goer can't seem to enjoy a movie without an action scene every twenty minutes.
How would the average movie goer know? It's either constant action movie or The Shape of Water.
There's nothing in between John Wick and Arthouse drivel.
Mandy?
I don't know how you feel about Nicholas Cage, but Nicholas Cage in a chainsaw fight is something I didn't know I needed in my life.
Joker did very well, and while it had brief action scenes, there wasn't that many of them. Very accessible arthouse cinema.
I dunno man. I think they are definitely dumb enough to undermine their own message by keeping him a villain
It sounds like the main protagonist is his daughter. Which is weird, because Wesker doesn't really seem like a family man.
This is what really pissed me off about the Without Remorse fiasco.
It's obvious the whole intention was to make John Kelly black, and everything else revolved around that.
The original inciting incident in the novel is a damaged guy meets a damaged woman, gets her out of drugs and prostitution, and then loses her to the gang and goes on a revenge rampage.
Can't have a black woman being a drug-addled prostitute, even one who gets redeemed, so obviously it now has to be a wife.
The re protag has been female several times. That wouldn't be abnormal.
Worst part of all this SocJus nonsense is how this annoys me now. I played RE games with female protags as a kid without a care in the world. Now a female protag gets under my skin as soon as I hear about it.