🐱 DC Reportedly Casting BIPOC Constantine for New Series

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A new Constantine series is reportedly on the horizon for HBO Max, and the program could see a BIPOC performer take on the role of the Hellblazer

According to The Illumnerdi, HBO Max is partnering up with the J.J. Abrams studio Bad Robot Productions on a Constantine TV show. This incarnation of the character will have a dark tone with a heavy emphasis on horror rather than religious elements. Notably, the show is currently looking to secure a BIPOC performer in the mold of Riz Ahmed to take on the part of John Constantine.


Abrams is currently working on an HBO Max series based on Justice League Dark, a team that frequently employs Constantine among its ranks. However, it's unclear if this new Constantine show would be connected to that production.

John Constantine has been a staple of the DC Universe for decades, while his most prolific live-action incarnation came with a 2005 movie starring Keanu Reeves. The project took liberties with the source material but proved a decent box office hit with a $230.88 million worldwide gross and has garnered a cult following in the years since its release.

Constantine also previously headlined a series on NBC. Though it only lasted 13 episodes, Matt Ryan, the actor tasked with playing this version of Constantine, has gone on to reprise the role as a series regular on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
 
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Unassuming Local Guy said:
BIPOC doesn't even add any meaning. "People of color", as reprehensible and divisive a term as it is, at least has a meaning. It means "not white". BIPOC, then, means "not white, and also two other kinds of not white". It's like saying "canine dog". I really don't even know what the point is. Is it just a manifestation of the progressive movement's hatred of anything more than ten years old*? "POC" is too old and therefore racist, so let's create a new term that means the exact same thing?

*I originally wrote that without intending it to work as a pedophile joke, but that's what we call a happy little accident
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They keep changing the definitions so there will be a never-ending supply of people who didn't notice the change and are using the "hateful" old meaning, simple as that.

It's a way to generate more abusers so they can grind up the oppression tree faster and unlock more representation.
 
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With all the other options out there these days, why do companies like this keep making such dumbass decisions? Are they really this out of touch? Is there actually a huge market out there for things like buypox recastings and I'm the retard? What's going on?
 
NoReturn said:
, why do companies like this keep making such dumbass decisions? Are they really this out of touch?
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They bet it all on "woke" being the future, they literally cannot go back now because they don't' have the money to rebuild the working system they threw out in the false belief that that new an improved miracle one the traveling SJW salesmen sold them would make millions overnight.... it's Sunk Costs Fallacy and the fact they just don't have the liquidity for another internal retool after they pretty much wholesale fired the "classic" artists and writers and hired a bunch of dangerhair kids out of college who think Superman should ignore the bank robbers and mad scientists and go after Trump supporters, or soy bugmen living in Manhattan apartments with overbearing girlfriends who are SURE they know how male superheroes should act...

They're desperately trying to justify all the retooling of the factory floor and the millions spent on those shiny machines, despite the fact it produces defective product nobody wants. They'd rather go out of business and blame "the market" than look in a mirror.

At this point, they're probably aware the industry is dead, and they're just positioning themselves to fall upwards to some other media by virtue signaling to all future employers: "I turned more white heroes black than the next guy during my tenure, hire me!"
 
I do like Riz Ahmed as an actor, but even as BIPOC he doesn't fit the design. I have less of a problem with altering characters as long as they fit the design intended. Ahmed is way to spindly. Like people were saying, Michael Clark Duncan was PERFECT as Kingpin. He would have been amazing in the Netflix series too. Get Rami Malik. He's got that crazy intensity that I think you would need. Though people think he's white he's actually Egyptian lolz.
 
Standardized Profile said:
BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color

Constantine is English. White people are indigenous to England.
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are you sure there's an "and"? i thought bipoc ( Black - Indigenous People Of Color = descendent of black slaves) exists to exclude latino and asians because they're progressive stack competitors with B and I.
 
murdered meat bag said:
are you sure there's an "and"? i thought bipoc ( Black - Indigenous People Of Color = descendent of black slaves) exists to exclude latino and asians because they're progressive stack competitors with B and I.
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I think so. You have to have non-black, non-indigenous POCs if you want to include refugees and migrants from Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. I don't think they would intentionally be left out. I think BIPOC is just a euphemism for non-white, a way of excluding white people without actually naming them. But I could be wrong, this stuff is all nonsense anyway.
 
They can Blackwash all the characters they want. It does not change facts:
GenericYuserName1997 said:
Please DC, don’t turn John Constantine into a sandnigger.Salah prayer airplane
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GenericYuserName1997 said:
Please DC, don’t turn John Constantine into a sandnigger.
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Why are you trying to save them? I say they go for it and also show the glorious Muslim culture:
Just have Adhan five times throughout the film, I am sure the critics will love it.
 
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Unassuming Local Guy said:
BIPOC doesn't even add any meaning. "People of color", as reprehensible and divisive a term as it is, at least has a meaning. It means "not white". BIPOC, then, means "not white, and also two other kinds of not white". It's like saying "canine dog". I really don't even know what the point is. Is it just a manifestation of the progressive movement's hatred of anything more than ten years old*? "POC" is too old and therefore racist, so let's create a new term that means the exact same thing?

*I originally wrote that without intending it to work as a pedophile joke, but that's what we call a happy little accident
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BIPOC actually means "specifically black or indigenous people of color".

It's a new term because the left hates Asians now.
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
BIPOC actually means "specifically black or indigenous people of color".

It's a new term because the left hates Asians now.
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Oh, I was told it meant "black, indigenous, and people of color". That actually makes sense, because the second BLM started burning shit the left kicked Latinos right off the totem pole (unless they're illegal immigrants). Asians were never really on it.
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
BIPOC actually means "specifically black or indigenous people of color".

It's a new term because the left hates Asians now.
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It also means that they can include or disclude Latinos based on convenience, since most Latinos have significant amounts of indigenous blood but are part of a thoroughly hispanicized culture.
 
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ArthuriusMartyrius said:
To be fair, aside from the skin color, Michael C. Duncan was spot-on casting for Kingpin.
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Except that the skin color is basically the entire point of the character. He's supposed to represent the power of old money corruption and the entrenched white power structure. A black kingpin misses the mark entirely. Vincent D'Onofrio was really good in the part, imo.
 
Spoonge said:
The show was a flop but the guy they got to play John was fantastic. Absolutely nailed it.
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Didn't they have Chas as a zombie or something. I was hella stoked for that show but it stuffed up everything.
 
There's a trope of magic being used by non-whites. It's really fascinating, I think it comes from a racist undertone of thinking non-whites are more primitive. It's like the black god(s) trope. From the ancient world. So they cast black people. Magic which has been lost through the ages, so cast a black character.

I'm not that familiar with Constantine, but this trope fits yeah?
 
Troonos said:
This "BIPOC" bullshit just seems like an evolution of their tactics to make it "everyone vs white people". What a bunch of exclusionary racist bigots.
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Its more than that.

Its a hierarchy that places Black/Indigenous over other non-whites. They're expanding the progressive stack thinking into mainstream politics and going beyond just white vs non-white.
 
Unassuming Local Guy said:
Oh, I was told it meant "black, indigenous, and people of color". That actually makes sense, because the second BLM started burning shit the left kicked Latinos right off the totem pole (unless they're illegal immigrants). Asians were never really on it.
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HumanHive said:
Even “Asian” is becoming “Middle Eastern or Indian only”.
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I will admit to the smallest bit of enjoyment watching East Asians slowly realizing they're not in the special club. I've been seeing a lot more people online posting things like "Are we not considered minorities?" and "Why is no one talking about what's happening in San Francisco?"
 
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