Demographics

To those bitching about Black Out vs White Out, both sides are ignorant of the fact that Hollywood's a business and it's business is attracting and expanding audiences. When they first started out their audiences where rural and urban white americans so a majority of their movies were cast with white people even if the subject matter was taking place in Africa, Asia, or Oz.

Now that we're in a global economy and more than a 3rd of North America is non-white/mixed race Hollywood needs to appeal to as much eyeballs as it possibly can.

My objection is over rebooting an original movie that stands on its own merits and is considered a cult classic. Even if they recast the movie with white actors it's still going to suck because the idea behind the movie isn't the movie itself but rather the unabashed cash grab by the studio.

A better approach would be hiring a writer/director who would take the original story and give it their own spin/vision and produce something unique.