DC just dropped a bunch of trailers for upcoming movies (Batman, Black Adam, recut Justice League, new Suicide Squad). Kind of interesting to watch them and see the faces that pop out.
Amber Heard - Domestic abuser
Ezra Miller - Recently choke-slammed a girl
James Gunn - sketchy pedophilia comment history
I fully understand they can't cut Flash, and Gunn is a desperate, last-ditch effort to inject GotG style fun into their moribund universe. But surely in a movie that was being made specifically for recut scenes they could have ditched ones with the sociopathic abuser?
Maybe DC are just taking a "fuck cancel culture, we'll use anyone that we want" stance, in which case, more power to them, even if their choice is assholes. I'm not going to be too surprised though if it simply ends up with them being massive hypocrites.
I was going to edit the above post to say that at least 'The Batman' looks good but Catwoman and Gordon are both now black. 13% of the population doesn't need every other supporting character be made black. How many Asian characters are in the film, any DC film for that matter? Not that I'm saying there should be. People still buy new characters and being a minority is no barrier to popularity, e.g. 'Scalped' was a great comic series about an Amerindian cop (that would make a good tv show). If you want more minorities in play write better stories for them and adapt those.
They did a whole Catwoman movie with Halle Barry as Catwoman in 2004. Her race was mention, but I don't think anyone really cared. Our society's views on race has gone MASSIVELY backwards since then.