Why all the Elba hate?

I'm a huge fan myself of the Dark Tower novels AND I'm a big fan of Idris Elba, because I think is a brilliant actor.
I don't want to think that all the hate is racism-generated. I think that most of the rage is because this casting speaks alone about the major changes that we surely gonna see in the movie.

The way I see it Clint Eastwood 40 years ago would be the best casting ever for this role.

Said that Idris Elba has all the talent and the instincts to play an AMAZING Roland.
As much as I am preoccupied about this movie (or maybe saga), I know that mr.Elba here will touch the right spots of the character.

Other than that I think this already tell us much about the rewriting of the story. It doesn't feel right to me knowing that the writers are gonna take liberties with the novels and Akiva Goldsman is the man I fear the most...

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He's getting hate because he's black. Pure and simple. It's racists trying to hide behind their idea of a pure adaptation of a fictional character.

Let's be bad guys.

Why all the Elba hate?

It's really simple if you are a Dark Tower fan.

It would be like reading the book Roots and then have someone cast Ben Stiller in the role of Kunta Kinte.

It's changing probably the most revered character that Stephen King ever wrote for absolutely no reason.

It's the liberal director/ casting agent/ producer/ author giving a huge middle finger to all of the fans who have been reading the book series, and loving all of the characters over the past 20 years.

Basically there is absolutely no reason to make Roland black, it's won't improve the story at all, at the end of the 7th book he'll still start all over again.

I'm sure Stephen King will really care but I'm not wasting my time on these movies, I'll just keep the memories alive through the books (Like they were meant to be.)

So, why all the Elba hate? Simple, I never had anything against him before but that scumbag is going to ruin my favorite book series over some political protest then I hate him. Simple.

Because Roland was written to be Clint Eastwood like. Which Elba just isn't. While Sony is the main company that makes diverse version of Annie just because they can. Which wind up sucking.
They're also involved with the new Ghostbusters which made them women for the hell of it and an unnecessary reboot of Jumanji starring the Rock and Kevin Hart.
I don't know. I think Sony should just write better roles for women and black actors.

The problem with Sony is that they change how we're used to how a character was written. Then tells us we're sexist or racist if we don't like it. You can't just 20 yrs later say the Gunslinger is nothing like Clint Eastwood and is Elba or that the Ghostbusters are now women. If you don't like it...tough.
It's not that we don't like women or Elba. We just are tired of bad casting forced on us.

Personally, I have no hate for Elba, he's a good actor, and I'm sure he makes a great cowboy/gunslinger as he does have the eyes for it, but the problem is that this is the first ever (big screen) adaptation of the DT series, and for them to immediately deviate radically from the books is where the shoe pinches for me.

I was already disappointed that they decided to go for the movie format, rather than the much more suitable big budget cable TV format, and then this change just added to that.

It would be fine if this were done after a first to-the-letter adaptation, for then people would be familiar with the source material and its concepts, and you could perhaps claim that the black Roland is a parallel universe idea, but now to deviate from the get-go is just a rape of the source material as well as insulting to the fans.

Hello nfiz, thanks for the thread.

I think the hate is being misunderstood. It's not so much a racial issue as it is a terrible miscasting of a character. Would Ben Affleck be a good choice for Ali? No, that wouldn't make sense.

As a person who has read the Dark Tower series twice over, I am more bummed than angry. We have been waiting for this to happen and most of us envisioned a Clint Eastwood type character. At least a Roland that looked something like Eastwood did in his old westerns. That is huge, being the main character. Changes a lot, because the story dictates race and racial interaction. It's part of the story!

How is the relationship between characters going to work, according to King's story? Is there a Detta Walker? Does she and Roland have the same racial interactions, as the original story? What else is compromised?

No hate, just disappointment.


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