Current Events > Mahershala Ali offered role of Joel in HBO's TLOU series

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SocialistGamer
02/10/21 4:33:25 PM
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https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1359615306906406915?s=21
oooh boyyy

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SomeLikeItHoth
02/10/21 4:34:37 PM
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Great choice.

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g0ldie
02/10/21 4:35:10 PM
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he's a great actor, and I don't mind the casting, if it goes through, but I'm expecting A LOT of backlash

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hockeybub89
02/10/21 4:35:51 PM
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Remember when Joel's whiteness was an integral part of the Pittsburgh arc?

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CommonStar
02/10/21 4:35:55 PM
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He's pretty good.

I still haven't watched his season of True Detective though.
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SomeLikeItHoth
02/10/21 4:36:07 PM
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g0ldie posted...
he's a great actor, and I don't mind the casting, if it goes through, but I'm expecting A LOT of backlash
I doubt it. Dude is a fantastic actor.

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Were_Wyrm
02/10/21 4:36:12 PM
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g0ldie posted...
but I'm expecting A LOT of backlash
From people who already don't like the source.

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Heavy_D_Forever
02/10/21 4:36:13 PM
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Based off the tweet in the OP that actor looks nothing like Joel.

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E32005
02/10/21 4:36:50 PM
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nothing i enjoy more than racists getting buttflummoxed over a black actor playing a fictional vidja character

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iPhone_7
02/10/21 4:37:06 PM
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Maybe they can also get Zendaya to play Ellie

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Jagr_68
02/10/21 4:38:13 PM
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Total_Lost2
02/10/21 4:40:13 PM
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Meh, as long as they get Kaitlyn Dever as Ellie I'm good.

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CommonStar
02/10/21 4:40:30 PM
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I wish they would adapt Telltale's Walking Dead with Lee and Clementine. I liked that more than TLOU.
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E32005
02/10/21 4:41:45 PM
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CommonStar posted...
I wish they would adapt Telltale's Walking Dead with Lee and Clementine. I liked that more than TLOU.
it was a superior story, for sure.

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Darmik
02/10/21 4:42:08 PM
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Wouldn't wanna be Neil Druckmann's Twitter inbox right now.

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refmon
02/10/21 4:43:07 PM
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E32005 posted...
nothing i enjoy more than racists getting buttflummoxed over a black actor playing a fictional vidja character
Hes a good actor but imagine if it was the other way around

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g0ldie
02/10/21 4:43:11 PM
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Were_Wyrm posted...
From people who already don't like the source.
for real.

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Darmik
02/10/21 4:44:11 PM
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refmon posted...
Hes a good actor but imagine if it was the other way around

Damn there's not even a Shaft for video games to name drop.

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Blue_Inigo
02/10/21 4:45:53 PM
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refmon posted...
Hes a good actor but imagine if it was the other way around
How many black protagonists in a AAA video game can you think of

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TheDurinator
02/10/21 4:46:31 PM
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Are they just going to make a TV version of the first game's story? That would be terrible and unnecessary, the game already does a great job with it. It would be much more interesting to follow the story from the beginning of the outbreak to the game's timeline from the perspectives of people besides Joel and Ellie, e.g., doctors, the army, and eventually the fireflies.

How will they change Abby? Twitter will complain if a straight white girl brutally kills a black man with a golf club.
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refmon
02/10/21 4:47:06 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
How many black protagonists in a AAA video game can you think of
One was just named a couple posts before mine

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Crepes
02/10/21 4:47:37 PM
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Total_Lost2 posted...
Meh, as long as they get Kaitlyn Dever as Ellie I'm good.

Why not just get Ellen Page to do it?

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Blue_Inigo
02/10/21 4:47:45 PM
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refmon posted...
One was just named a couple posts before mine
That's one for every 100 white ones. Like I said, how many can you name? Btw I wouldnt really call that Walking Dead game AAA

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CommonStar
02/10/21 4:49:23 PM
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Crepes posted...
Why not just get Ellen Page to do it?
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I4NRulez
02/10/21 4:49:58 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
Remember when Joel's whiteness was an integral part of the Pittsburgh arc?

no

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Darmik
02/10/21 4:50:24 PM
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TheDurinator posted...
Are they just going to make a TV version of the first game's story? That would be terrible and unnecessary, the game already does a great job with it. It would be much more interesting to follow the story from the beginning of the outbreak to the game's timeline from the perspectives of people besides Joel and Ellie, e.g., doctors, the army, and eventually the fireflies.

How will they change Abby? Twitter will complain if a straight white girl brutally kills a black man with a golf club.

I think they're also developing a Fireflies show too.

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moh82sy
02/10/21 4:50:41 PM
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Elliot Page should be offered the role of Joel, only then things would come full circle (Ellie's face in early footage from the first game was based on his likeness).

Also, wasn't Mahershala Ali going to play Blade ? I'm interested in seeing that as long as it's R-rated.
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TheSavageDragon
02/10/21 4:51:01 PM
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Crepes posted...
Why not just get Ellen Page to do it?

Because he is now Elliot Page.
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TendoDRM
02/10/21 4:51:14 PM
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Darmik posted...
I think they're also developing a Fireflies show too.
Why would anyone want to watch a show about incompetent terrorists?

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Smashingpmkns
02/10/21 4:51:53 PM
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Not a fan of TLOU but Mahershala Ali is a great actor.
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hockeybub89
02/10/21 4:52:48 PM
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refmon posted...
Hes a good actor but imagine if it was the other way around
There are like 5 black male leads in games in the past 20 years and I'm pretty sure a white CJ or Franklin would make no damn sense. I wonder why the other way around is different...

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Darmik
02/10/21 4:52:59 PM
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TendoDRM posted...
Why would anyone want to watch a show about incompetent terrorists?

My guess is *series spoilers* they're gonna use it to set up Abby.

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SquirtleSkwad
02/10/21 4:53:58 PM
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Great actor, but idk about him as Joel.

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Total_Lost2
02/10/21 4:55:06 PM
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Darmik posted...
My guess is *series spoilers* they're gonna use it to set up Abby.

Or just their fight against FEDRA for a return to regular government agencies instead of basic military rule

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Ilishe
02/10/21 4:55:11 PM
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He doesn't look anything at all like Joel from the game.

If that doesn't matter then whatever.

If I were to choose a black man to play Joel it'd be Chiwetel Ejiofor.

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alphagamble
02/10/21 4:56:08 PM
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I don't care who is in the show

I need to see how good the clickers look in live action

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DarthAragorn
02/10/21 4:56:36 PM
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Should just be Hugh Jackman...
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SSJ2GrimReaper
02/10/21 4:56:47 PM
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This is a pre-TLOU1 series right

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ShyOx
02/10/21 4:57:18 PM
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TheSavageDragon posted...
Because he is now Elliot Page.

I mean he plays a cishet girl on Umbrella Academy right now and they're not changing the gender of the character so it's not outside the realm of possibility. He can do whatever he wants imo

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Darmik
02/10/21 4:59:35 PM
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Total_Lost2 posted...
Or just their fight against FEDRA for a return to regular government agencies instead of basic military rule

Maybe both!

Would be an interesting concept if Joel slaughters almost the entire cast of a TV show to save Ellie. Although it would feel a bit random if for some reason you didn't watch main show lol. Then it would just be a random guy.

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TheSavageDragon
02/10/21 5:09:43 PM
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ShyOx posted...
I mean he plays a cishet girl on Umbrella Academy right now and they're not changing the gender of the character so it's not outside the realm of possibility. He can do whatever he wants imo

True, but even ignoring the gender thing...a 14 year old girl isn't likely to be portrayed by a 35 year old man.
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SquirtleSkwad
02/10/21 5:10:33 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
Remember when Joel's whiteness was an integral part of the Pittsburgh arc?
A character's race doesn't have to be pivotal to the plot for it to be a part of their identity.

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ShyOx
02/10/21 5:12:07 PM
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TheSavageDragon posted...
True, but even ignoring the gender thing...a 14 year old girl isn't likely to be portrayed by a 35 year old man.

Hmm that kinda rules out Zendaya too

Well it's a great opportunity for a young actress, hopefully they find some good unknown

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HylianFox
02/10/21 5:14:05 PM
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I thought TLOU was already a movie?

oh wait...

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Darmik
02/10/21 5:15:47 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
A character's race doesn't have to be pivotal to the plot for it to be a part of their identity.

A character's identity doesn't need to be exactly the same for an adaptation either.

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hockeybub89
02/10/21 5:17:01 PM
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SquirtleSkwad posted...
A character's race doesn't have to be pivotal to the plot for it to be a part of their identity.
"That's what he looks like in the original" is not an identity either. Joel has to be a lot of things and none of them are white.

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AmericaTheBrave
02/10/21 5:23:48 PM
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Is this to be woke or because Mahershala Ali is a bankable actor?

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HylianFox
02/10/21 5:24:07 PM
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AmericaTheBrave posted...
Is this to be woke or because Mahershala Ali is a bankable actor?

why not both?

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