With original movie work, I kind of agree. But with adaptations of books, I disagree. If the main character in the book is white, it would be silly to make a black person play that character. And vice versa.

Then we should do this for hispanic, latinos, and asian people too... usually, if you're NOT white, you get stuck in the same kind of roles. I bet that when you think of a latino in a movie, you think about the role of an illegal immigrant, the housemaid, the gang member, someone poor, uneducated, someone who doesn't speak English... right?

No, I'm surprised because the fictional character were not black. Mongolians should do this to all Tyler Perry movie covers. It would make just as much sense. Yeah, you know how those black people have been shut out of the entertainment industry for the last few decades. Just ask Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Octavia Spenser, Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx, Sam Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle, Whoopie Goldberg, Forest Whitiker, Halle Berry, Michael B Jordan, Oprah Winfrey etc etc about how hard it is to get screen time *sigh*. This is about as dumb as when Janet Jackson's album tanked so she blamed racism, then went crying all the way back to her mansion.

That Doctor is AWESOME! I definitely would love her as The Doctor. All of these "alternative posters" are actually quite good, the team behind them cared to "cast" the models so they really fit the characters. Four thumbs up!

Silly thing to do. Try putting a white face on the poster for "Ali" or "The Colour Purple" or any Spike Lee Joint. Or is this just racist because the didn't include Asians or Latinos ? Can we please stop making everything into a race-issue ?

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Except for Harry Potter and Titanic, the posters were really nice and I wasn't surprised at all. But maybe for HP and Titanic, the actors' expressions weren't able to invoke the emotions fans would usually feel for those movies which is why I would still prefer the original poster. But I still appreciate the idea of this article. We should be more inclusive of minorities, at least in media since it gets the most attention.

Well, I think that this isn't only blacks, it's latinos and asians, and really anyone who is discriminated against. However, at least we can celebrate that we've gotten a lot better at this over the years while we work on getting even better.

Moving to countries of white people and having problems that most of movies, books and paintings is about white people.

won't they got legal-copyright-thingamajik problem? *just asking*

The fact they are black people does not surprise me. What surprised me was to see different faces on familiar posters. Put a white guy that's not Daniel Radcliff for Harry Potter and I'd be surprised too. Similarly, put a white guy for Blade or black panther and I'd be surprised ...

Titanic is not a good choice for this given that the male lead and the main supporting actor are both of mediterranean decent - lol - Likewise Harry Potter with its English boarding school setting, upper-class prejudice and themes of racial supremacy is a terrible choice of film to randomly make all the protagonists a racial minority. Yes, I think we probably need more non-white major roles in the media but Castaway, John Wick, The Martian, The Revanent etc are all movies better suited to this sort of project.

i think we should replace black actors with white. you know, for awareness...

The skins one should have token Asian in it.

I think the UK put this to convince people to not be surprised if someone with color is playing a major role in a movie so, guys don't get so worked up.

:)

If black characters were replaced with white characters there would be outrage, but for some reason it seams perfectly fine when its black people replacing white people.

If I'm surprised it's because those people weren't in that movie.

The question is, would it be a total hit?

I understand what they're trying to convey, but I don't think this is the way to go about it. With these posters we're looking back and see the lack of great black actors (or other colours) in major movies, but by adapting them in this manner is like we have to change the past. We can't change the past, that is what it is. We can, however, learn from the past and change our future. Perhaps the film industry should consider adapting works by Maya Angelou or other iconic writers to have more diversity.

Actually, in Harry Potter, in the books it never specified Hermione’s race.

I am happy to see that,.

I'm surprised, bc these are wellknown movie posters, which look different than i'm used to... not bc there are too less black major roles

I bet if you change all the actors to White in Straight Outta Of Compton, blacks would riot.

what a load of rubbish.

Spot on.

There are more white actors simply because there happens to be more whites in the United States, and therefore whites are more likely to appear in auditions. 12.3% of the US is black. This is not discrimination against blacks at all. They are not refusing to give roles to blacks. Also, I heard once that someone was making a Martin Luther King play in which a white guy played MLK. Um....what?? How does that even make sense?? Just keep it real, no matter the race.

legallyblack keeping racism alive.