Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to play John Stewart?

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God I fukking hope not. No offense to The Rock but he's been playing the "racially Ambiguous" card his entire career, can we not get a REAL African American for these black superhero roles?



"First Vin Diesel uses social media to slowly leak what his Marvel Studios role was, and now we have Dwayne Johnson seemingly doing the same thing for his DC Entertainment — or was he simply expressing a fanboy opinion?

On Instagram yesterday, Johnson shared a picture of himself with producer Hiram Garcia, with a caption that read, "Known this beast since he was 15. I was on the football field playing for Miami, he was leading the Hurricanes marching band as Drum Major. He spent years of working on my WWE story lines & Rock monologues. Then years of being on every movie set with me learning the film business from top to bottom. Today, he's one of the best and most sought after producers in Hollywood. Brilliant, relentless and one big motherf*cker! Proud of you brother & thank you for all the hard work."

STORY: Coming in 2014: DC Entertainment, The Rock Team Up
So far, so … well, so Dwayne Johnson. Except that the image had the following hashtags: "#ProducerHiram #TeamRock #JohnStewartCanStillWhupSupermansAss" If you thought that last hashtag seemed out of place, you're not alone — and when the subject was brought up on Twitter, Johnson doubled down:"



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Idris Elba would actually make a perfect John Stewart but Marvel's got him locked up playing 4th fiddle in the Thor franchise....
Who gives a fukk. Reynolds was Deadpool and Green Lantern. Marsden was a dude in Superman Returns with as much relevance as Elba in Thor while also being Cyke. fukk it. I doubt there's something in his contract tellin him he cant.
 
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Who gives a fukk. Reynolds was Deadpool and Green Lantern. Marsden was a dude in Superman Returns with as much relevance as Elba in Thor while also being Cyke. fukk it. I doubt there's something in his contract tellin him he cant.


Naw they killed Cyclops off in Last Stand BECAUSE Mardsen went over with Singer to do Super-lame Returns and Reynolds did Green Lantern only AFTER he couldn't get the solo Deadpool movie off the ground. I'm sure nowadays with so much competition amongst the studios they would heavily frown upon having someone recognizable like Idris playing a LEAD in a competing tentpole
 

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God I fukking hope not. No offense to The Rock but he's been playing the "racially Ambiguous" card his entire career, can we not get a REAL African American for these black superhero roles?




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But, but, but, but...he played Roadblock in GI Joe!!! :troll:

Totally feeling what you are saying though.

Hollywood is giving him black roles for one, he is a box-office draw, and two, he is light enough for AmeriKKKan audiences but Black enough for general black fans too.

As far as action stars go, only Will and Denzel can be considered the better selling black lead actors right now, who has proven to carry a movie. Dwayne is getting their.

But first and foremost, since those two ain't signing to a superhero movie anytime soon, might as well go for the smiling light-skin brotha, who is not all the way black, but who can bring a box office crowd immediately. THey have been using this formula when he made it to movies, now he's playing black roles since he's more establish like Roadblock.
 

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Idris Elba would actually make a perfect John Stewart but Marvel's got him locked up playing 4th fiddle in the Thor franchise....
Lol, Idris would make a perfect anything, the man can act. I would reserve him for Black Panther, a top tier black superhero.
 

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Does it really matter?

He's half black
And doesn't look it half the time. Hes not like Halle who has played black roles throughout her career.

Johnson started out playing racially ambiguous roles like Scorpion King. Now Hollywood want him to be the go to guy for black roles since he is immensely popular and not "as black" looking like the rest of "black" Hollywood.
 
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And doesn't look it half the time. Hes not like Halle who has played black roles throughout her career.

Johnson started out playing racially ambiguous roles like Scorpion King. Now Hollywood want him to be the go to guy for black roles since he is immensely popular and not "as black" looking like the rest of "black" Hollywood.
He played an Egyptian in Scorpion king...

The Rock has been taking these roles since the beginning of his acting career.
 
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