- It will be a man.
- He will likely be in his 30s.
- Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.
- “Whiteness is not a given”.
Not exactly a massive revaluation but I hope they’re bold enough to be different.
Not a huge amount of room to be different, but not sure I’d expect much more either.
I’m not sure it makes much sense to gender swap, feels like it would be hard without changing the character significantly. Happy to be proven wrong though.
A new character in the same universe would be easier. It’s a shame they never spun off Hallie Berry’s character, that could have been interesting.
The Jinx film almost happened. There was a script, a director in Stephen Frears but apparently MGM got cold feet spending $80m on the film.
Berry said,
“It was very disappointing. It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”
