Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20160302221846/@comment-25926288-20160306033042

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: GothicNarcissus wrote: What's giving me hope is I don't think they're oblivious to the prospect of yet another pointless racial controversy spawning from The Lion King. ‘Cause sure as hell there would be people getting at each other's throats over whether they should or shouldn't have cast more POC for a retelling of the savanna-set retelling of a tragedy set in Denmark. Provided that personally I think it wouldn't matter, just like it didn't matter to me in the retelling of the originally England-based Arthurian myth (we had good actors, good actresses, and that's all that matters), I still know my interent and how people can't wait to go ballistic over that stuff. They could do Hamlet with the Lion King names and POC actors for the royal family. The problem with any of that logic is that as far as we know, the two brothers are the most important, but LK and Hamlet isn't about the two brothers whatsoever. Simba and Hamlet are the stars. That's like having Romeo and Juliet with no focus on Romeo and Juliet, but their parents.