Look -- up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a black superhero!
No, seriously.
Actually, there’s a slew of them primed to infiltrate Hollywood’s white comic-book movie universe, and their inclusion is overdue says Richard Douglas Jones, one of the co-hosts of the podcast Black Nerd Power.
“There’s definitely an excitement and very much the sentiment that it’s about time,” Jones says about recent casting decisions in new and upcoming comic-book films, including the less-than-fantastic Fantastic Four, which stars Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm aka the The Human Torch. “Seeing black superheroes, particularly in theMarvel universe, has been refreshing, but at the same time, it’s still not enough.”
But, it is a start.
Anthony Mackie makes a brief-but-important cameo in Ant-Man as Falcon, who's been in three Marvel films so far and appears next in Captain America: Civil War, along withDon Cheadle as War Machine and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Black Panther, slated for 2018, stars Chadwick Boseman (also co-starring in Civil War) as the title character, the king of an African nation. Alexandra Shipp takes on Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, scheduled for next spring. And, Will Smith, like Jordan, has taken on a traditionally white character with his role as Batman super-villain-turned-antihero Deadshot in DC Comics’ highly anticipated Suicide Squad, due next year
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