Twitter is re-casting our favorite movies with diversity in mind and we NEED to see these versions
If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite movie would be like without any straight white male actors, now is your chance! Journalist, movie fan, and Twitter user Brian J. White, asked his followers to recast famous movies without straight, white male actors. So basically picture The Notebook but replace Ryan Gosling with Dev Patel. Or How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days but replace McConaughey with John Boyega. Do I have your attention?
When White tweeted his idea, he received hundreds of retweets (and counting!) He even encouraged gender flipping! false
He led with his own example, casting a diverse and well thought out group of actors.
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Clearly White is like us, a John Boyega fan. (And who can blame him?)
Swiftly after his tweet, other Twitter users started to chime in with their own casting ideas.
.@talkwordy Back to The Future: Jaden Smith as Marty McFly, Kate McKinnon as 'Doc' Brown.
— Pablo Defendini (@pablod) April 16, 2017
This choice is so genius we want to write to whoever is in charge and have this movie re-made! Jaden’s tweets are already super futuristic, and he comes from solid acting stock so…all-around, a brilliant idea.
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real
— Jaden (@jaden) May 2, 2013
Super love the idea of Cher being in anything.
Maverick: Felicity Jones
Goose: Kate McKinnon
Iceman: Zoe Saldana
Viper: Cher
Guy who says "rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong": Ian McKellen https://t.co/yfh5ZoNPVS— Ty Schalter (@tyschalter) April 16, 2017
Um…YES PLEASE.
Grace Jones is the goblin queen and she has stolen Blue Ivy from her big bro Alfred Enoch https://t.co/s82fCoksQ1
— SarahTheRebel (@SarahTheRebel) April 16, 2017
Harry Potter reboot? Clearly they’re all adults in this version, but OK!
Harry: Dev Patel
Ron: John Boyega
Hermione: Cherrelle Skeete
Ginny: Lindsey Morgan
Neville: Hayden Szeto
Luna: Alisha Boe https://t.co/a3FWjAf99U— Britt Rivera (@kindamoviesnob) April 16, 2017
Who wouldn’t love to see Hogwarts recast? Although it was cute to watch Daniel Radcliffe as Harry we would LOVE to see Dev Patel play the boy who lived and Cherrelle Skeete would undoubtedly blow our minds as Hermione.
Who would you recast without standard straight, white male actors? The possibilities are beautiful.
