Can I just point out that it seems to me the only people suggesting spidey should be black are the people behind the twitter campaign, and the actor himself (after he heard about the campaign). There isn't actually any indication from the producers that they are seriously considering this, and considering his box office CV I would say the guy is a long-shot for the job at best.....
How-evver, whilst I hate political correctness with a passion, I don't have a problem with Spidey being black - as another poster said, its down to the character, not the looks. Where is the law that says the film has to be faithful to the original source material? It actually has to appeal to viewers beyond the hard-core fanbase and in doing that it needs to take as much or as little inspriation from the original as it feels the need to. There was quite a fuss about Daniel Craig's 'blond bond' and whilst opinion is still probably divided they breathed fresh life into a moribund franchise by going in a different direction. The purists will always have the original to go back to, wheras a retelling of the same story in a different medium needs to change that story to at least some extent - particularly if it is a re-re-telling in the same medium....
Change of colour doesn't have to mean change of character. Peter Parker doesn't have to suddenly be into hip-hop and baggy jeans - he could be a guy just like the white Peter Parker who just happens to not be white....
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