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SNW Season 5 In Development

How is this any different from casting Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury? Or Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent?
Those aren't great examples, as Marvel clarified that Sam Jackson's counterpart in the MCU is actually Nick Fury Jr. and the Flash movie and its Batman comic tie-ins had the timeline with Billy Dee's Dent diverge before he turned into Tommy Lee Jones. That being said Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face, in that universe, probably still was supposed to look like Billy Dee before since those movies are still canon to Batman Forever even with the above.
 
Those aren't great examples, as Marvel clarified that Sam Jackson's counterpart in the MCU is actually Nick Fury Jr. and the Flash movie and its Batman comic tie-ins had the timeline with Billy Dee's Dent diverge before he turned into Tommy Lee Jones. That being said Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face, in that universe, probably still was supposed to look like Billy Dee before since those movies are still canon to Batman Forever even with the above.

Roles get recast all the time in Hollywood (How else do you explain Dick York playing Darrin in one season of Bewitched and Dick Sargent playing him in the next?)

It's really best not to overthink these things.
 
Roles get recast all the time in Hollywood (How else do you explain Dick York playing Darrin in one season of Bewitched and Dick Sargent playing him in the next?)

It's really best not to overthink these things.
As an Asian man myself the recasts make more sense if the ethnicity of the actors are the same, that's why I still don't consider SNW Kyle to be TOS Kyle.
 
As an Asian man myself the recasts make more sense if the ethnicity of the actors are the same, that's why I still don't consider SNW Kyle to be TOS Kyle.

Billy Dee Williams accepted the role of Harvey Dent knowing that he would eventually become Two-Face (the studio opted for Tommy Lee Jones instead in Batman Forever).
 
Billy Dee Williams accepted the role of Harvey Dent knowing that he would eventually become Two-Face (the studio opted for Tommy Lee Jones instead in Batman Forever).
Billy Dee Williams' Two-Face is in a different multiverse universe than comic Two-Face (which themselves are divided into Earth 2, Earth 1, Prime Earth and New Earth). The problem wasn't casting him in the role, the problem was casting Tommy Lee Jones after him instead of bringing Williams back or hiring another black actor.
 
April's first appearance was in a cartoon from the 1970's.

Yes, that is what I was referring to. Because TPTB currently consider TAS to be canon and in continuity with the prime universe of Star Trek.

How is this any different from casting Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury? Or Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent?

See above. All the previous iterations of those characters were not in the same continuity as Jackson’s and Williams’s take on those characters.

The message you seem to be getting is that African Americans can’t play characters that were played by Caucasians before. That is not remotely the point being made.
 
Meh. I have as little problem with Robert April switching ethnicities in canonical Star Trek as I had with Felix Leiter changing ethnicities in the James Bond movies.

I get your point and agree with you; however I do have to point out that Jeffrey Wright’s Leiter is from the rebooted Bond movies and not associated with the previous continuity.
 
See above. All the previous iterations of those characters were not in the same continuity as Jackson’s and Williams’s take on those characters.

The message you seem to be getting is that African Americans can’t play characters that were played by Caucasians before. That is not remotely the point being made.
Yep, that's basically what I'm trying to say and you articulated it better than I could.
 
Also, Robert April doesn’t go from being white to being black in real life.

I don't know. To put things in perspective:

April was white in exactly one episode of a Saturday morning cartoon that has drifted in and of "canon" over the decades, depending on who is in charge this week. And he wasn't even a regular on TAS. He was a one-shot guest-star.

Personally, that's not something I'm inclined to get too fundamentalist about. And I say that as somebody who wrote an entire novel about Diane Carey's version of April.

The animated version of April is basically a footnote at this point.
 
I don't know. To put things in perspective:

April was white in exactly one episode of a Saturday morning cartoon that has drifted in and of "canon" over the decades, depending on who is in charge this week. And he wasn't even a regular on TAS. He was a one-shot guest-star.

Personally, that's not something I'm inclined to get too fundamentalist about. And I say that as somebody who wrote an entire novel about Diane Carey's version of April.

The animated version of April is basically a footnote at this point.

Oh, absolutely agreed. TAS has always had that funky distinction of 'is it official? Yes! Then no. Then only parts of it are. Then all of it is. Then we're not really sure...'

I personally am not inclined to treat TAS as any kind of 'proof' or holy writ for anything. And I am 100% fine with April being African-American. That being said, I think the post I originally wrote about the SNW characters being different from their TOS counterparts took an unintended segue that really strays away from my original point.
 
Fair enough.

Although I can't resist jumping onto the Batman discussion and pointing out that, back in my day, Julie Newmar turned into Eartha Kitt on the very same BATMAN series and I'm not sure anybody complained that this "violated canon" or came up with elaborate fan theories explaining that they were actually half-sisters or whatever. :)
 
There's something to be said for not taking this stuff too literally.

See also the three different Marilyns on THE MUNSTERS.

I confess, as a kid, I never noticed when they switched Marilyns . . . because who cared about Marilyn? She wasn't even a monster or anything . . . . :)
 
See above. All the previous iterations of those characters were not in the same continuity as Jackson’s and Williams’s take on those characters.

The message you seem to be getting is that African Americans can’t play characters that were played by Caucasians before. That is not remotely the point being made.

I never said that. I would NEVER say that.
 
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