It was a trailer that was very well recieved by Star Wars fans (if the Flickering Myth Reaction is anything to go by) but there were some who felt that John Boyega (Attack the Block) shouldn’t play a Stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens because – get this – he’s black. Aside from the race angle, some fans also claim this casting causes plotholes as all Stormtroopers are supposedly clones of Jango Fett.
What a world we live in.
Anyway, Boyega has taken to Instagram to address these complaints, telling people to “get used to it”.
With love xxx
Several movies have come under fire as of late due to their casting with Josh Trank’s The Fantastic Four getting a huge amount of Internet backlash for Michael B. Jordan playing The Human Torch and Rupert Murdoch had to publicly defend Exodus: Gods and Kings which features and all-white cast playing Egyptians.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set for release on December 18th 2015 and sees returning stars Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) joined by John Boyega (Attack the Block), Adam Driver (Girls), Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Domhnall Gleeson (Dredd), Daisy Ridley (Silent Witness), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Miltos Yerolemou (Game of Thrones), Max von Sydow (The Exorcist), Jessica Henwick (Spirit Warriors), Christina Chong (24: Live Another Day) and newcomers Crystal Clarke and Pip Andersen. You can listen to the Flickering Myth Podcast review of the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens using the player below:
stupid_argument_is_stupid says
What a silly argument. You’d expect that when the empire expanded of course they will recruit armies. The clone army was only the beginning… duhh..
Villordsutch says
There’s always stupid in the world to make you want to slow clap humanity.
dalvara6 says
Yeah, you don’t think that they eventually ran out of the old school Jango troopers after two deathstars full of them got blown up? Plus all those Jangos were hispanic anyways (much love) so racist fanboys can suck it because the empire has never been the white man, except for all the ranking commanders and leaders (damn I guess it is kind of racist).
Kyle Posey says
I can see it from the clone perspective, but this takes place so far down the road from then that empire would have had to start recruiting. So who gives a shit.
TangoUrilla says
Storm troopers aren’t clones though, the clone troopers were, hence the clone wars, storm troopers were recruits and conscripts according to the books, which Disney has chosen to ignore, but the reference to clone wars and different height storm troopers in the original trilogy makes the whole all “storm troopers are clones” argument totally invalid.
Vos_L says
People need to seriously getting over the whole “Disney killed the EU!” nonsense, lol. The EU universe was never canon in the first place. Disney stating that they would not recognize the EU as canon was simply status quo. Lucas never considered anything done by anyone but him to be canon. Point in case, the EU is all over the place in terms of when the clones were replaced…as it is with many things, there were lots of conflicts within the EU. There was no definitive answer although it was pretty consistently written that the clones were phased out sometime between the end of The Clone Wars and A New Hope. However, with the new Rebels show….which is canon….it was stated in a recent interview with Pablo Hidalgo (who is in charge of establishing what is SW canon) that as of the time of Rebels (set 5 years before A New Hope), the Stormtroopers were not clones. They had already been phased out by that point.
Vos_L says
The clones were gone by the time of the original trilogy. They had accelerated aging and the Empire replaced them with recruits. Anyone who suggests the Stormtroopers that we’ve seen on the screen are clones is not a real fan.
David says
John Boyega could be anyone in this trailer, nothing has been confirmed, do you think a mindless trooper would be acting this way? I think he’s in disguise?