What's funny is the Kingpin one ended up with one of the best castings possible, someone with both the correct body and presence to portray the character that few could, even if it was the wrong color. It was a case where the standard "best for the job" excuse could be valid.
But as is usually the case, they did it so often and so hard that it got lumped in with the poisoned well and now its part of an inexcusable trend that can have no exceptions made for it. For however many "true believers" are in their ranks, they contributed to making racism worse in their attempts to do the opposite.
That only happened because when Marvel wrote/drew the 1610 Ultimate universe comics Fury was drawn looking like Samuel L Jackson without permission, so he had them over a barrel legally and more or less gave himself the MCU job rather than sue Marvel.
My only issue with Jackson Fury is he has now completely dominated the character, meaning literally any Nick Fury we see anymore will be his version and no other. And not dominated in the "well why would you want a lesser other version" but simply become the culturally expected version to a point where if you used his decades old original version people would complain.
And I liked the older one much more than "I'm black and I'm angry" that makes up his entire version (and acting career).
What's funny is the Kingpin one ended up with one of the best castings possible, someone with both the correct body and presence to portray the character that few could, even if it was the wrong color. It was a case where the standard "best for the job" excuse could be valid.
But as is usually the case, they did it so often and so hard that it got lumped in with the poisoned well and now its part of an inexcusable trend that can have no exceptions made for it. For however many "true believers" are in their ranks, they contributed to making racism worse in their attempts to do the opposite.
Jackson as Fury was also great, it wasn't until the script quality dropped so low in later phases that he couldn't overcome it.
That only happened because when Marvel wrote/drew the 1610 Ultimate universe comics Fury was drawn looking like Samuel L Jackson without permission, so he had them over a barrel legally and more or less gave himself the MCU job rather than sue Marvel.
My only issue with Jackson Fury is he has now completely dominated the character, meaning literally any Nick Fury we see anymore will be his version and no other. And not dominated in the "well why would you want a lesser other version" but simply become the culturally expected version to a point where if you used his decades old original version people would complain.
And I liked the older one much more than "I'm black and I'm angry" that makes up his entire version (and acting career).