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The Runaways (Marvel/Hulu)

Yeah, it does look very accurate, right down to Molly's hat and Gert's hair. Apparently, this Molly, who is older than her comics counterpart, will be "Molly Hernandez" rather than "Molly Hayes".

Obviously she'd be a CGI character and the rendering is probably far from complete at this point, but where's Old Lace? I wanna see her now!
 
Press release said that it will be coming to Hulu "this winter", so we're still more than half a year away.
 
That was pretty good. I've actually read the first trade, so I was able to recognize quite a bit of the stuff we saw there.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Yeah, it does look very accurate, right down to Molly's hat and Gert's hair. Apparently, this Molly, who is older than her comics counterpart, will be "Molly Hernandez" rather than "Molly Hayes".

Obviously she'd be a CGI character and the rendering is probably far from complete at this point, but where's Old Lace? I wanna see her now!
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I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they pull a Game of Thrones and avoid using the animal companion as much as possible. Dinosaurs are easier to pull off than wolves, but still a costly addition to have hanging out in every other scene.
 
The Runaways twitter account tweeted a poster of the cast and dropped a pretty heavy hint that we can expect to see Old Lace in the show.

https://www.twitter.com/runaways/status/859878444817141760/photo/1

So, further echoing those of us above who said that teaser looked to have some scenes taken straight out of the comics, here's a photo that's as close to a comic cover as you're ever going to get:

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The original artwork from Marvel:

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I know they're echoing the cover for the comic's first volume TPB, but does anyone else find it a little odd that in a cast that is two thirds female, it's the two male characters who are quite literally front and centre? I'm not sure that's sending a very good message and that's hardly the only group image they could have chosen to recreate. Indeed, I rather think this one may have made more of an impact. Because: dinosaur.
 
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I know they're echoing the cover for the comic's first volume TPB, but does anyone else find it a little odd that in a cast that is two thirds female, it's the two male characters who are quite literally front and centre? I'm not sure that's sending a very good message and that's hardly the only group image they could have chosen to recreate.
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I see your point, but from a compositional standpoint, it makes sense to put the tallest members of the group in the middle. Note how, in both versions, you can draw pretty much straight diagonal lines connecting the tops of their heads -- and the bottoms of their feet in the comics image. It's like they collectively form two arrows pointing outward from the center. I think that actually directs the eye toward the girls on the outside, rather than away from them. Additionally, in the live-action image, the two outermost girls are wearing the brightest colors, which also makes them stand out compared to the rest, as does the second girl from the left, thanks to her distinctive hairstyle and the backlit halo it creates.

And it doesn't hurt that the most front-and-center cast member is nonwhite. That in itself is refreshing.
 
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The teaser trailer was interesting. I was going to give this a pass, but I might take a look at it now.
 
The height thing only matters if you choose that particular arrangement, so it's a bit of a circular argument, no?
If they went with something like that other cover I linked above, relative heights become utterly irrelevant.
But yes, the ethnic balance is pretty good here, but that's more to the credit of the source material than the casting. The best we can say is that they pretty much stuck to the characters as-is.
 
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The height thing only matters if you choose that particular arrangement, so it's a bit of a circular argument, no?
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No, it's a converging-lines argument. ;) It's a good composition, and I think it was chosen for that reason -- to put the tallest cast members in the middle, which happened to mean putting the male cast members in the middle. I don't think it was done to suggest that the male characters were more important. It just looked good that way.

For that matter, the other comic you linked to is also arranged by height -- the men are in the back of the two-row arrangement because they're taller, so it wouldn't make sense to put them in the front where they could get in the way of the shorter people behind them. And the tallest guy is equally central in both covers, for the same reason in both cases -- because it's good composition.
 
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But yes, the ethnic balance is pretty good here, but that's more to the credit of the source material than the casting. The best we can say is that they pretty much stuck to the characters as-is.
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I'd say at a time when whitewashing is such an issue, it's noteworthy to see an adaptation with such a mixed race cast, actually cast non-white actors for all of the non-white characters.
 
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I'd say at a time when whitewashing is such an issue, it's noteworthy to see an adaptation with such a mixed race cast, actually cast non-white actors for all of the non-white characters.
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I think in TV today, it's more common to get nonwhite actors cast as traditionally white characters -- e.g. Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen, or Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge (among others in all those shows). There aren't many examples in recent TV of originally nonwhite characters being played by white actors. There was Tigh in Battlestar Galactica, and a few minor characters on Arrow including Sin and Brick, and there was a character in the pilot of The Expanse who was Nigerian in the book but a Nordic blonde in the show. But usually these days it's the other way around.

The place where whitewashing is still a major problem is in feature films, especially with Asian lead characters; the recent Ghost in the Shell is an egregious example. Just one of the many ways that modern TV is superior to modern feature films in every respect except budget and spectacle.
 
I didn't realize that, but I guess you're right. The controversy over Ghost in the Shell was actually what I was thinking of when I wrote the post.
 
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I'd say at a time when whitewashing is such an issue, it's noteworthy to see an adaptation with such a mixed race cast, actually cast non-white actors for all of the non-white characters.
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Doing the bare minimum in regards to respect for the source material (to say nothing of decency) should not in itself be a praiseworthy thing, no matter what everyone else is doing. But then I suppose we live in indecent times.
 
Well, it looks better then Inhumans or Cloak & Dagger (in that it at least somewhat resembles the property its supposedly adapting). I can't really tell much more then that based on a 30 second trailer.
 
Looks good to me. It looks a lot closer to the comics than I was expecting.
 
Damn, I completely forgot this is going to be on Hulu, I was thinking it was going to be on Freeform with Cloak & Dagger.
 
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