{"id":35586,"date":"2015-02-23T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35586"},"modified":"2015-02-23T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:07:36","slug":"could-sonys-spider-man-be-black-or-latino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/23\/could-sonys-spider-man-be-black-or-latino\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Sony’s SPIDER-MAN Be Black Or Latino?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ultimate_comics_spider-man_6_miles_morales2\"<\/a>If you got tired of the fanboy complainings after Michael B. Jordan was cast as the Human Torch<\/a>, just wait, because you have seen nothing yet.<\/p>\n

The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider told the Meet the Movie Press<\/a> podcast that his sources tell them that Sony is seriously considering making the new Spider-Man a non-white actor, going so much as to say that there is a 95% chance that the role will be portrayed by a black or Latino actor. Sneider then went on to clarify<\/a> that even though Marvel has a Black Hispanic Spider-Man named Miles Morales, seen above, that Sony might not be using that version of Spider-Man, instead recasting Peter Parker as a different ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Of course, this has thrown Spider-Man fans into a tizzy, and the have been vocal griping about the potential change.\u00a0 This inspired current writer of the Spider-Man comics, Dan Slott, to go on Twitter<\/a> to defend the casting of of a Black Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

I have no idea if this rumor is true or not–Sneider is usually a good source of information, but even he admits the rumor hasn’t been confirmed–so I am mostly taking a wait and see aspect on this. But I would hope that this will not turn out to be a superficial, cosmetic change and Sony decides to go deeper and hire a black or Latino writer and a black or Latino director to do an informed look at what it really would be like for a black or Latino teenager to get the Spider-Man powers.<\/p>\n

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The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider says he is 95% certain that Sony will pick an actor who is not white. <\/div>\n

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