Who will be the next Peter Parker?

If it was up to me I would cast Anton Yelchin A.K.A. Charlie Bartlett, A.K.A Kyle Resse from Terminator Salvation, A.K.A Chekov from The Star Trek reboot. I think this kid has some pretty good acting chops. Either way whoever they cast they have to remember they need to cast PETER PARKER not Spider-Man.

That's an awesome suggestion! I'm 100% onboard with that idea

Haha yes him... according to some moronic tweeters

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twitter-campaign-wants-community-actor-to-be-first-non-white-spider-man.html

Damn you Twitter, you ruin everything that's good in the world! lol

Lets make a biopic on Martin Luther King Jr. And lets make him white.

Take everything about Spider-Man. Without naming any physical appearances, name off things like his personality, his characteristics, his lifestyle, his backstory, etc.

Now tell me how any of those things = specific to any ethnicity
If Donald Glover fit the part, I see no logical reason why that couldn't happen.

And Dyz, Echinda, those Thor/Black Panther examples are so ridiculously naive and unrelatable to this topic that I'm not even going to go into it. Just take my challenge above and get back to me.

Spider-man is a multi-tiered character... Peter Parker's akward moments are only one small part of his character (which Donald Glover would nail).

However, when it comes to fighting villains, and creating a believable revenge storyline; I think that these things are beyond him.

I apologize, I was gonna type in a qualifier about it's not b/c he's black, but I decided to just not mention race altogether.

We live in a day when race is no longer a factor when it comes to casting.

However, there are some cases in which race play an integral part of the story. Like I said before a white lead wouldn't make any sense being the ruler of Wakanda (Black Panther). Or a black Norse God doesn't make much sense either.

Need I remind anyone of the stupidity that came from Will Smith's mouth? The stuff about making Captain America black? Just because he read Truth: Red, White, and Black, doesn't mean it should be made into a movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth:_Red,_White_%26_Black

Granted, its a good read. But the general audience wouldn't embrace it.

This is why the Will Smith's and Tyler Perry's of the world frustrate me

There's too much emphasis on him being black. It's like we have to have "our own" version of said superhero or whatever to identify with. When their race changes, so does most his personality. And that's what I hate when they flip races in most movies/shows/whatever. It's only meant to "blackify" or "whiteify" or "whatevergroupify" a character, dipping into old tropes, cliches, and stereotypes. And sometimes they even delve into finding some BS "reason" to justify why said character isn't this certain color and make it a big deal, usually leading to the rest of the total package lacking substance.

It's okay to make a badass who happens to be black.
It's okay to make a lone ranger who just happens to be Hispanic.
It's okay to make a power ring bearer that shoots out green magic stuff who just happens to be Asian.

Just make a cool likable character and everything will fall into place regardless of looks.

This all makes me wanna make a black Hitler movie. Lets see what they have to say about that.