New Spiderman is gonna be Black

[Sacred Jellybean]

Sure. So why stop at Spider Man? Let's recast every iconic American hero and role as different races. A black Clint Eastwood?

You mean, like, Clint Eastwood in blackface? Eastwood is an actor, not a character. :)

A Vietnamese John Wayne, maybe? (After all, why can't we have black cowboys? A la Will Smith?)

Same principal, but to give you a serious answer, if you're trying to make the stories historically accurate, it would be difficult, but maybe with the right backstory a minority cowboy could be interesting.

And Darth Vader will be Hispanic!

Darth Vader is mostly just a mask, not human, with a monotonic, robotic voice. I guess you could give him a hispanic accent, but considering that your example is from an iconic movie series (rather than a comic book mythos that has existed for decades and been explored many different times in many different ways), it'd be a little jarring, since we only have one example to compare it to (and because I can't seem to imagine it without an over-the-top flamboyant Don Quixote voice, but maybe I just lack imagination).

Of course, Star Wars is almost certainly set to be remade some day, so maybe in another 50 years, if Hispanic folks become the majority, this will be likely. :)

Indiana Jones is half Philipino--didn't you know?

As long as he has the right masculine physique and can balance badass with intelligent professor, I don't see why not. Also, having only seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, once, as an adult, I suspect that I don't have the same attachment to the series as you, so maybe I can't relate.

My point is that these are established and beloved franchises and I for one DONT like them being rebooted at all... let alone changing the ethnicity of the main star.

Lib'ral hollywood came'n TOOK MAH FRANCHISES!! *shakes fist*

To cite examples, I H A T E the latest reboot of Bond... I loathed the woeful Star Trek reboot... and I never watched the newer Battlestar Galactica, but when I heard that they recast roles not just to different races, but from gender to gender...?

I don't know anything about any of these and am not really qualified to add to the discussion.

They're NOT being original or creative here, they're JUST BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT for FUCK'S SAKE!

Isn't it more creative to divert from the source material? :) It doesn't necessarily have to be a mindless P.C. affront to come over and rape your church and burn your wife, it could be an artistic decision. Questioning the motive for such a decision, I guess, would have to go to the guy who brought it up, a writer for some noname scifi site I've never heard of. But I wouldn't be against it, and I like the idea of Don Glover.

Peter Parker has been established in a plethora of media forms as a white guy. If he had been established as a black guy, then LEAVE HIM BLACK. But he was not. Don't go back and change a hundred years of canon because it suits the prevailing liberal Hollywood winds!

Go watch/read the plethory of other media forms, then. A new interpretation won't make them turn to ash. Just ignore it and move on, especially since you already have a recent enough movie series to draw from. I don't see the problem.