[News] Film Remakes with more BAME representation

Pierre the Painter

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We've already had in the past few months announcements of remakes of films with BAME actors taking the place of roles previously played by whites. Peter Pan, Little Mermaid and Planes, Trains and Automobiles to name but 3, and this trend is set to snowball in the coming months and years. So which films from the past you may have vowed as classics but by today's standards were racist would you like to see remade with more BAME representation, and furthermore which BAMEs would you like to play said roles??

My starter for 10 is Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Maya JAMA playing Jessica Rabbit. Over to you....

 

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Bold Seagull

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Bear Pit by 15th post?

 

GT49er

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The Dambusters ................










..... but with a dog called Whitey ..............

 

Grombleton

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This thread isn't going to end well is it

 

Bold Seagull

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Rocky played by The Rock, Apollo Creed played by Chris Hemsley.

I'd also like The Hulk in the next film to be purple.

 

Eeyore

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Bold Seagull said:

Bear Pit by 15th post?

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Great film, although I can't see there being a remake with BAME representation.

 

happypig

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Mississippi Burning with all the KKK played by black actors.

 

Uh_huh_him

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Sorry this has passed me by.

Has there been a move to specifically cast BAME actors because the role was incorrectly cast with white actors.
Or are we just seeing a continuation of casting directors becoming less narrow minded in their selections?

BAME actors playing roles previously made famous by white actors is nothing new.
Odd that you see it as a recent development set to "snowball".

 

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Planet of the Apes?

 

zefarelly

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Brighton Lines said:

Great film, although I can't see there being a remake with BAME representation.

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Polar bears and Brown bears, not black bears?

 

RossyG

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zefarelly said:

Planet of the Apes?

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Really?

 

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Gwylan

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Bold Seagull said:

Bear Pit by 15th post?

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Don't know it. Is it a gay porn film?

 

Eeyore

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Gwylan said:

Don't know it. Is it a gay porn film?

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Yes, a favourite in the Pretty Pink Pit.

 

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Zulu, relocated to Swindon, with a gospel choir from Croydon defending the 'Magic Roundabout' against the inhabitants of the local council estate.

 

Tyrone Biggums

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I'd rather see zero remakes. Lazy film making.

Just write and create new movies.

 

Boys 9d

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Khartoum and Othello with Laurence Olivier "blackened up". Apace which stared Burt Lancaster. The Conqueror with John Wayne as Genghis Kahn.
I am sure there are many others.

 

RossyG

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I usually hate yellow face in films. I couldn't care less if it's racist; it just looks ridiculous most of the time and spoils the film. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's is a prime example.

I can think of one occasion when it worked: Joel Grey in Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins (aka Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous).

Christopher Lee came close with the Fu Manchu films and Terror of the Tongs, but that's about it.

 

Curious Orange

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Blazing Saddles

 

Tom Bombadil

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Gwylan said:

Don't know it. Is it a gay porn film?

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Nice try, we all know you're an El Presidente level afficionado of gay porn