Board Thread:Television/@comment-24416813-20140115063611/@comment-1894786-20171007035906

Gemnist 2.0 wrote: @Edward If you were to make Marc Spector Egyptian, you're still going to piss people off for comic inaccuracy; diversity IS pretty much what all the DC fans are now trying to use against Marvel. Plus, Iron Fist was not a white savior narrative, since he was fighting in New York; a white savior narrative involves a story featuring tons of ethnic characters in their own land with a Caucasian as the protagonist, such as The Great Wall. It doesn't have any race problems period; it was just a bad series. I would also argue that Moon Knight's powers can be translated to Americans - not to mention getting a renowned and stocky Egyptian actor is going to be HARD (the only two Egyptian actors I can name off the top of my head are Rami Malek and Mena Massoud, neither of whom fit the part). What they could possibly do is have the series set predominantly on Long Island (where Spector Mansion is), as I will admit always taking place in Manhattan gets redundant when you could easily use the other Burroughs (namely the Bronx and Staten Island).

@KalKent As for the British heroes, they should be British, but I think all of them are just better suited for movies instead of TV (except maybe Blade, who I think could be played by Mekhi Phifer). Like, how about a Captain Britain movie with Spider-Woman and Union Jack as supporting characters, then have a Black Knight movie with Faiza Hussian and Bloodstone as supporting characters? Oh, and I like Domnhall, but we need a better-built actor for Braddock, unless Domnhall can put on a good deal of muscle. Who said anything about a renowned Egyptian actor playing an Egyptian-American Marc Spector? And yes, Egyptian-American, 'cause I don't believe Spector is an Egyptian last name. (Or Egyptian-British. Even better, gives us more foreign heroes.)

Most of our heroes were relative unknowns before their roles. Chris Hemsworth, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Olsen, Chloe Bennet, the list goes on and on.