I don't actually believe this . It can't be happening. Its not true.
Purely from a business point of view this is any inconcievably bad choice to have made. They have just reduced the potential Box Office of a Lando movie by possibly hundreds of millions,even if they get the go ahead to make it.
The success of Marvels "Black Panther" is due in no small part to the huge popularity of the way the characters are written. That very public support for this film to have been a black superhero movie has translated into a massive profit and goodwill as well as being well recieved by fans and critics alike . I doubt very much if it would have been half as successful if suddenly the new KIng of Wakanda announced he wanted to roger Captain America.
Lando was always held in high regard by similar fans and friends of mine because he represented a very strong role model for them within SW and sci fi universe . With a stroke of the pen Lucasfilm have probably destroyed much of the admiration and pride they had in his character.
Its all very well to try and promote tolerance and acceptance but this isn't the way to do it. Its going to upset alot of people.And you cannot call them biggots or haters when you take a character and dramatically alter a quality about them that they have been admired for four decades. Who would be stupid enough to do that and not expect a backlash?
I can't understand how anybody in charge of a franchise that directly depends on the powerful popularity of their characters with the general public and fandom to see the movies they are in think this is going to translate into a strong cinema performance.
I admire many of the films Kathleen Kennedy has produced and influenced , but it seems to me she truely doesn't understand the need for strong and popular male role models AS WELL as female ones. Or shes going outright to destroy them because shes incapable of controlling her own bias.
This however, is likely going to cost her, depending on just how accurate this rumour is. Its almost trolling.
Peter "Starlord" Quill can **** aliens and nobody will blink an eye. But hes a new guy. SW fandom is generations old and less forgiving of people treating them like idiots. How does this please anybody?
But I guess in terms of SW mythology it does explain Landos fondness for capes and why he wore Hans clothes at the end of TESB.
God help us.
I have zero interest being involved in this conversation but CutThumb I’m not sure you understood what was said by Kasdan. I would refer you back to Westies post, he very well expressed what Kasdan said and why it was entirely appropriate. Short version, there is no change to the Lando character in the film in regards to this topic, it was simply a writer having an internal monologue about additional character attributes Lando “might” have.
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