Deadline sources say that Bettany is playing a completely different character than Williams was - http://deadline.com/2017/09/star-wa...l-bettany-joins-ron-howard-tweets-1202159877/
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Could be.
Even so, same role or not, firing a black guy and hiring a white guy isn't good optics.
What's all that? Looks like Darth Vader's bathroom.
Not every cast change needs to be examined politically. FFS. You have no idea what the roles are, their part in the story or why the changes were made. You have no idea about the availability of Williams even if they wanted to shift him into the new role. Lots of parts get cut. Sometimes entire storylines get cut. That is the nature of storytelling and film making.
This is like firing someone in management at the same time you make some hires in maintenance. There's no reason to think they have anything to do with each other except that the same people are signing their checks at the end of the week.
"Optics."
It's a decision that directly parallels an issue for which Hollywood as taken a lot of heat over the last few years.
There was no reason to do so and Disney will rightly take heat of their own over it when the film gets closer to release. No bullshit justification logic will change that.
This is actors playing fictional characters in a fictional universe. Their conceptual make-up is completely arbitrary, such that the number of reasons Bettany's to-be character had to be a white guy are insignificantly small and so specific that any script changes that would require it introduce a whole slew of other production problems.
In which case one can only wonder why the new character couldn't have just been adapted for Williams or, if he wasn't available to fit in the new shoot schedule, why they couldn't have found a different person of color.
In short the cast use to be:
Two black men, one black woman, and a bunch of white people.
Now it's one black man, one black woman, and a bigger bunch of white people.
That's a problem.
There was no reason to do so and Disney will rightly take heat of their own over it when the film gets closer to release. No bullshit justification logic will change that.
This is actors playing fictional characters in a fictional universe. Their conceptual make-up is completely arbitrary, such that the number of reasons Bettany's to-be character had to be a white guy are insignificantly small and so specific that any script changes that would require it introduce a whole slew of other production problems.
In which case one can only wonder why the new character couldn't have just been adapted for Williams or, if he wasn't available to fit in the new shoot schedule, why they couldn't have found a different person of color.
In short the cast use to be:
Two black men, one black woman, and a bunch of white people.
Now it's one black man, one black woman, and a bigger bunch of white people.
That's a problem.
If that's what happened, it would promote the issue from a problem of optics to a bona fide example of the disadvantage that minority groups have working in American film.
Yeah, it's more a symptom of white males being statistically more prominent and thus more likely to have such a solid and repeated working relationship with a director than a specific prejudice at work. I don't believe Howard did anything wrong here, least of all since these are hardly idea conditions to begin with.
Any chance they can fire Emilia Clarke for being a terrible actress?
