Gods of Egypt Director & Lionsgate Apologize for White-Washed Cast

[Uncle Kendrick]

After the Sony leaks we should all know what the deal is with these types of movies. At those cacs in Sony thinking Denzel clout can't reach oversees audience

 

[EndDomination]

I don't know what's cornier, the cast of this flick (even if the cast was darker the movie would still be trash) , or this apology that nobody asked for. This outrage and apologize for everything culture is ridiculous. The general sentiment that I have and am pretty sure most others have is not of outrage over the cast, but rather its more like this is what we expect from them. This is what they do. Cacs gonna Cac. That's what it is. The funny thing is from what I can tell, more white people in the form of online journalism and blogs called them out than did Black people. It's similar to the Paula Deen fiasco where it was noticeable that more white people wanted her gone than did Black people who largely shrugged their shoulders in disbelief that some people found it shocking that a southern white woman made racist remarks. It's like liberal white people have appropriated Black outrage or something, it's strange.

No.
It was mostly Black people who complained about this.

 

[Deluuxe]

Is this the movie where they put the blacks as slaves? Thats the only think I would've been offended about. IDGAF about Egypt.

 

[George's Dilemma]

No.
It was mostly Black people who complained about this.

Not from what I can tell. Even so I'd have to disagree with you on calling it "complaining". There's a difference between laughing at it cynically, or pointing it out as something being more of the same that we're used to. To label it complaining really wouldn't do it justice.

 

[EndDomination]

Not from what I can tell. Even so I'd have to disagree with you on calling it "complaining". There's a difference between laughing at it cynically, or pointing it out as something being more of the same that we're used to. To label it complaining really wouldn't do it justice.

Go on Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, Instagram, check out the signers of the online petition, etc.
And there were active complaints, alongside the pseudo-intellectual "this is always what happens with White people *laughs*" banter than you're describing.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

thanks?

 

[Gutzman]

yea i tried to watch the exodus movie and just couldnt cuz of the white actors. just couldnt take it seriously.

 

[ORDER_66]

Whoever casted this movie needs to be called out SERIOUSLY..... Assign blame where the shyt lays breh... no tiptoeing around the bullshyt anymore... The people involved knew this was coming the minute exodus started flopping and was BANNED over there as blasphemy...

 

[Anno Domini]

Really tho no one thought of Michael J White or Idris Elba, Lupita etc?

They probably did, but none of them nikkas wanted to be associated with this trash. Only reason Chadwick Boseman was in it, was because he needs to eat before that Black Panther movie come out.

 

[StickStickly]

GTFO @ his name

 

[King Crimson]

Token black god...

And his name is thot.

 

[Big Boss]

Too late

 

[Mr Bubbles]

They aren't sincere in this apology. It's just a way to seem politically correct. Next Ancient Egypt movie will be the same old same old unless this flops like Exodus.