>http://variety.com/2016/film/news/the-flash-kiersey-clemons-female-lead-1201810036/
>Sources tell Variety that Famuyiwa’s top choice for the female lead in “The Flash” is Kiersey Clemons, who also starred in Famuyiwa’s critically acclaimed dramedy “Dope.“
>While details are still vague on who the character may be, insiders say it is likely to be Iris West, the tough-as-nails journalist and friend of Barry Allen, the alter ego of the Flash.
They really are aping the TV show.
>>84352517
Famuyiwa's done primarily black slice-of-life films. Unsurprising he'd target a black actor/actress in a lead role. Since CW Iris is black as well, it won't be odd to general audience members.
she's a qt
>>84352488
God the flash is officially a black show now. Fucking americans and their pandering
>>84352684
>their
it's fucking they're you idiot
Lucy Boynton (The Blackcoat's Daughter, Sing Street) is also being considered.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/the_flash/dope-star-kiersey-clemons-eyed-for-iris-west-role-in-the-flash-movie-a143285
>>84352488
So fucking sick of this shit.
its __ when __ does it
Shes not as hot as Candice Patton but I'll take it.
Meh why would anybody be mad about this when it's been done in the TV show?
I halfass expected thie
>>84352488
Typical WB, having white man hero and black woman love interest. WHERE IS OUR BLACK HERO WITH WHITE FEMALE INTEREST, WB?
>>84352684
1. This is for the movie
2. A lot of America is black so I don't see anything wrong with pandering to them. Flash lives in a city not your little suburbia.
3. Cry more, racist.
>>84352684
This for the movie tho
>>84352809
Suicide squad is out next month
>>84352776
Help me out here, because there's a black director involved with this when many other examples had white directors
>>84352810
>>84352810
I can smell the self hate from here.
>>84352724
Kek
>>84352810
>A lot of America is black
Less than 14% with a lot being in jail so those numbers dont matter
WE
>>84352488
DROPPED
>a movie about a fast man
>not having black people in it
>>84352912
Take your hatred out of this board.
>>84352517
That always happens with franchises.
The sucesful stuff gets elevated into the general mythos.
Same with btas or hell most religions and myths.
The modern idea of hell is literally from fanfiction
>>84352727
She's who I'm hoping for.
>>84352488
I was looking forward to a qt Iris. Who gives a shit if shes black, that girl is ugly.
>>84352809
WM/BW are the superior interracial couple.
>>84352727
>everyone ignores this
It's spider-man homecoming all over again
i thought we were finally free of the black wally....cereal lord failed me
>>84352975
WM/AnyW is the superior interacial couple
>>84352979
But Clemons is the favorite, and she isn't doing anything noteworthy.
>>84352912
14% is a lot. It really depends where it's set; if they make Central City the equivalent of, say, Baltimore then you'd expect a lot of black characters; if it's Portland then there won't be very many.
>>84352488
Oh, it's for the movie. And here I dared let myself hope that Jenni would make an appearance.
>tfw Legion never ever
Sigh.
>>84352975
what about yellow and black? I'm pretty sure jew and black is a thing. Regardless of gender, I see a good number of that coupling
>>84352881
Here to stay my dude
>>84352888
>implying I'm white
>>84353060
Legion is very likely, though. Especially with Supergirl in the mix.
>>84353083
>Implying you aren't a self hating extreme liberal living in suburbia.
>>84352790
Another cute black girl getting WHITED? Sign me up sempai!
>>84352684
Somewhere, Dwayne McDuffie is smiling.
>>84353077
BM/AW is pretty common, but the elusive AM/BW is the patricjan's choice.
WHITED
>>84353116
Don't hate my self for race-related reasons, not an extreme liberal, not living in suburbia.
>Implying you're not a self hating racist who secretly jacks off to cuck porn
>>84352809
>Spider-man
>Possibly Wolverine
>Possibly Thor
>Possibly this
>Ironfist show
let the memes flow
>people still trying to make BLEACHED into a thing
>>84353178
Thor is confirmed.
Iron Fist is being paired with a white girl, though.
>>84353077
After all the Bendis chocolate fetish memes, I think this can become one too
>>84352724
Retard.
Previously leaked character breakdowns.
>IRIS WEST I Barry Allen's best friend. Christiane Amanpour’s brains and Carrie Bradshaw’s style. An overcaffinated doe. A reporter at The Central City Citizen.
>EOBARD THAWNE I Central City’s Bill Gates. The smartest man in the room. The CEO of Thawne Laboratories. He suffers from advanced degenerative and is confined to a wheelchair.
>FRED CHYRE I A gruff detective who first meets Barry at the scene of a crime. Now they’re colleagues and the closest thing Barry has to a friend. Chryre is investigating the unusual death of someone at Thawne Laboratories.
>LEN SNART I An ex-military who turns out to be working as an enforcer for Thawne.
>JAY GARRICK I A former Central City University professor who was fired for fringe science, and was working on the Speed Force program. Cameo role.
According to rumors Thawne is going to be in his mid-20's in this, roughly the same age as Barry.
>>84353106
I should damn well hope so. Really, DC dropped the ball hard when they didn't get working on a Legion movie after seeing how Guardians of the Galaxy made bank. Though GotG2 is on the way, so they might still be able to cash in on that delicious space money.
Though a Legion movie would be tricky. LOSH so obviously works better as a TV series.
Does this mean we will get a Joe in the film
Because Joe is the best part of the Flash TV
#KeepIrisBlack
>>84353374
>According to rumors Thawne is going to be in his mid-20's in this, roughly the same age as Barry.
Hot
>>84353474
No. Chyre will fill in for him.
>>84353374
>the closest thing Barry has to a friend
Why is Barry a friendless loser?
>>84353736
Because he's a geek and this is Hollywood.
>>84353197
>Iron Fist is being paired with a white girl, though.
well I guess I'm not watching
>>84352961
Not that anon but seriously shut the fuck up.
Nobody appreciates your faggotry. Go call people out on non-anonymous social media if you want to feel superior. It's a fucking shit show this week, you'll find plenty of targets.
>>84352488
Dope was terrible, though.
>>84352790
She's better with a spetacular ass
>>84352727
Semen demon
>white director
>rumors going around for white Iris's
>change to black director
>rumors change
Its clear the old guy wasnt willing to play diversity hard ball and he got the axe
I dont particular care what race Iris West is but my main concern is pulling a lot from the CW show. Because I swear to god if he has a STAR LABS cheer squad or a dozen people who know his identity Im going to fucking lose it
>>84352684
Why the fuck are you surprised that a show about the world's fastest man is a black show.
I'm gonna have to skip the movie. I am okay with the TV show, but not with the movie please.
I'm ready to drop the DCEU if they do too much raceswap.
>>84354200
I hope he does.
I guess having two white characters in a relationship is considered racist these days.
>>84354285
WHY?
>>84353736
Because Barry has always been a friendless loser.
They will make him more like a Peter Parker type of loser though.
How about genderswapping Iris, so that Barry can be gay.
Call him Oris West or Irish West.
Fuck you.
>>84354249
>I'm ready to drop the DCEU if they do too much raceswap.
Why SHOULDN'T they race swap, though? I mean, the core casts of most of DC's iconic Golden & Silver Age characters were created at a time when they literally couldn't put black characters of any note in comics, distributors wouldn't carry them if they did. Adapted "straight from the page", it would be so pasty that it would stand out even by Hollywood's anemic standards of representation. It's something they've been trying to correct in fits & spurts for decades. Why should holding onto that be aspired to? It was a skewed picture even then, today it's practically unconscionable.
>>84354249
>I'm gonna have to skip the movie.
>I'm ready to drop the DCEU if they do too much raceswap.
That's dumb. They race swapped Perry White. That's it. I mean, you could say Mercy Graves was a race swap, but Asian Mercy's been a thing since 2007 and is currently Asian in the comics as well.
>>84354364
To mock you.
>>84354482
>I cant identify with a character unless theyre the same race as me
Thats what you sound like. Im starting to think PC people irrationally focus on race just as much as racists at this point. Changing it now is just shameless pandering to make people feel better about themselves/pat themselves on the back for being "progressive" when in reality they could give a shit about racist issues
>>84354482
White is neutral for me. If you pick black it becomes political.
Beside visually I want to see something that at least looks like what I am fucking reading.
I do watch the TV series. I don't mind Iris and Joe. But everytime I see fucking Wally in a scene I skip to the next one.
What a piece of shit.
>director considers working with a star from his previous critically acclaimed film
>GOD DAMN JEW CONSPIRACIES
The only conspiracy here is the Blacks
>>84354590
I'm white as the driven snow, and I have no problem identifying with people of any race. But I understand that media reflects the society that creates it. When it somehow doesn't, it reflects a bias and a shortcoming within that society. The incredible whiteness of old comics, that was no accident, anymore than it was for Hollywood. That was deliberate exclusion of significant parts of the nation's population. It's not something that should endure.
>>84354709
>White is neutral for me.
And that sentiment, despite being quite widespread, is a problem. Because it's not neutral.
>>84355086
Not American, but as opposed to what country?
>>84355086
What the flying fuck?
>>84352488
Fuck yes make that money sista.
>>84355086
Well she's not lying.
>>84355086
Based
don't even care about Flash but Kiersey Clemons is fucking perfect in anything.
>>84355139
Wow you can just feel the pretentiousness from this post. Go outside, dont be such a sensitive faggot,and stop thinking you have the insight as to what other demographics want
>>84352810
We are only like 13% of the US and concentrated manly in the south.
>>84354200
He works from home. No star labs team.
>>84352488
As long as Wally isn't black I'm fine with it. It could be a mixed family and they can get extra progressive bux.
>>84355322
Mah perfect type
Holy shit my dick
>>84352727
Not that is a woman I'd unwittingly reveal my secret identity to because of sleep talking.
>>84353030
Central City is in Western Missouri.
The Flash turning into a "White guy surrounded by blacks" show is unironically great.
Barry likes chocolate now
>>84352912
why do people point out the overall percentage like that matters?
IF you have these books set up in major cities then things would look different. If these characters came from nowhere Wyoming then you'd have a point. But most of them don't.
>>84353077
WM/AW is god tier but rare as hell these days. Hell I'd even take AM/WW.
But apparently diversity = black.
Let's forget Asians and Native Americans.
>>84354388
>>84353736
Because Zoom.
>>84353374
>wheelchair thawne
>it isnt tom
Ew.
>>84358502
why don't you complain when white people take asian roles then?
fucking joke of a human being.
>>84358559
There aren't that many cases of it. There's uh...That Bald Chick replacing a racist Tibetan stereotype, and Mandarin I guess?
>>84355498
Also not many of us are into capeshit
>>84358085
In the comics yes, they could put it anywhere in the country for the film.
>>84358502
>But apparently diversity = black.
Recently I can't help but feel people, on either end of the discussion, respond differently to certain casting choices/ race changes. Anons were making and responding to threads for nearly every single black person cast and hardly any for the hispanic actors.
>>84358085
I thought Cental City was supposed to be like, conservative white people central, given Wally's dislike of blacks and Barry's clash with Ollie's "token black" state of mind,
>>84358675
Wally isn't from Central City, though. He's from smalltown Idaho.
>>84359460
Or, shit, maybe it's Nebraska.
Either way, Blue Valley is small town white ass midwest.
>>84358502
>Hell I'd even take AM/WW.
watch crazy ex-girlfriend
Didn't they already revealed that Iris gonna be white few months ago and they already got the casting? Did they scrapped that?
>>84359924
>believing random 4chan rumours
>>84359987
citation needed
>>84360029
The only official rumours concerning Iris was that she will be in Justice League. A few posts appeared on 4chan by anons claiming to have insight into DC films and said that Imogen Poots was under consideration. There was nothing to back that up. Some people consider the post to be true because one of the names mentioned was Willem Dafoe who was eventually cast in JL. Also this was before a new director came onboard Flash.
>>84352488
for god sake, why can't we get ginger shota wally? isn't ginger a part of diversity campaign too?
>>84360171
Thank you.
But then again, I'm sick of raceswapping. Let TV has black Iris and white Iris for the films.
>>84360266
well Lucy Boyton is also in the running. I think they are just considering a few people. >>84352727
>>84355086
>implying any country isnt built on murder, rape, and slavery
I knew it would turn into a black movie, just look at the director's previous work.
>>84352961
Typical libtard reply.
>>84353197
>Iron Fist is being paired with a white girl, though.
We don't know that. Joy is just a supporting character in the books. Danny/Misty will def happen somewhere down the line.
>>84355086
she's not wrong
>>84355328
he didnt even say anything about what other demographics want, he merely brought a historical view into the argument you dumb motherfucker.
>>84353883
Yo Dope was fucking dope
I like the director they got, Dope was pretty good. Plus the original script treatment was done by the Lego Movie guys. Might be good.
I don't really hate this idea because Kiersey is fucking beatiful, but i hate that it's the same shit as the TV series just like Thawne being a professor in a wheelchair
>>84362126
The ine article sprouting script details used an old script that the tv show was based on.
We dont know anything about the factually movie. Given that Cyborg is gonna cameo its vastly different to what the writer of the article said.
>>84353083
I hope a cop shoots you during a routine traffic stop
>>84355086
are you saying she's wrong?
nationalism is dumb anyways, not even /pol/tards believe in that
>>84361835
I get the historical context, and its valid, but changing it now is pointless
She's hot so I'm ok with it.
>>84362458
It's not the same script.
And given those are casting breakdowns sent to agencies, Cyborg's presence would be negible given he has already been cast for years.
Denial is one hell of a drug.
>>84352727
THIS
THIS
THIS
PLEASE
PLEASE
PLEASE
I'm so sick of black folk
Keke Palmer tweeted this and deleted it but
>>84364737
Instead saying it was a mistake she simply said this
>>84352810
>2. A lot of America is black
There are more Hispanics than there are black.
>>84364777
:3
>>84364777
>one black person casted
>giving up already
I thought you were tougher than that /pol/
>>84364847
Well if it's Iris, you can count on it being the Dad and Wally too. Probably Reverse Flash.
Like leave all this shit for the containment film. i.e. Cyborg.
>>84358591
And Avatar.
And 21.
And Ghost in the Shell.
And Edge of Tomorrow.
And Dragonball Evolution
There's plenty of cases. You just don't notice because you don't actually care.
>>84364978
Joe was crested for the show. And this Barry is a loner. Iris and Wally are probably gonna be the only Wests that we'll see. But at this point its just Iris.
>>84353883
It was good right up to the part where Malcolm had to sell the drugs.
>>84352727
>kiersey-clemons-eyed-for-iris-west-role-in-the-flash-movie-a143285
Hope they don't give the role to her. She is easily the weakest link in Flash tv.
>>84364777
>Chimps gonna chimp
I thought chimping out was another caliber entirely. Not considering whether or not to cast someone in a movie. If that's chimping out, then he's just as much of a chimp as the other directors.
>>84358591
What exactly makes it racist?
Justin Kroll pretty much confirmed Clemons has the role, and she'll already appear in Justice League.
>>84365137
Sorry, I meant it more like chimps gonna chimp sort of like a water is wet situation. They always do the same shit, y'know?
>>84359522
but she's really in love with the white guy
>>84365192
It seems like the same shit as any of the other white directors. At least they're considering hiring other actors. The fact he worked with her before is probably a huge factor too. Like Josh Trank, but that's probably not a good sign either.
We already have a black Iris you idiots.
>>84365458
The movie is looking a lot like it's going to be CW's The Flash: The Movie.
But without the season long arc to make you really appreciate Tom Cavanaugh's Wellsobard, so "Sinister Wheelchair Guy" will be a lot less fulfilling.
>>84365458
Now we have two
Whatever, just keep Wally ginger.
>>84352488
>picking actress from Dope
>picking the lesbian instead of the nympho druggie with the nice tits
lame
>>84368097
nuh uh uhhhhhhhhhh
