Spider-Man: Brand New Day Star Zendaya Rumored For Lead Role In Bourne Reboot

@BadgerThorkin -
Nah, we need to start encouraging these morons to do this, to take popular male heroes and replace them with females and then just don't show up to the movie. Let them lose millions and help demonstrate further that whenever this happens it'll be a box office bomb.

Eventually it'll become notable corporate suicide to do something this retarded and they'll stop, up to them how much money they lose before that point hammers home.

@Batmangina -

@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 -

@JabbaTheSus - What are you confused about, the studio wanting to exploit a successful IP, or them wanting to cast a popular, bankable star in it?

@BrainySleep -

@HelloBoysImBack - She will be in 3 of the top 5 grossing films of 2026, but keep sharing your minority opinion like it means something.

@Lucasberg - Studios: "Let's relaunch one of our most popular franchises, and let's cast a big star with a proven track record of critical and commercial success."

Y'all: "THEY'VE LOST THEIR MINDS!"

@Clintthahamster - they can go ahead with these movies if they want and the movies will make 2 bits lololololol muahahahaha oh man you gave me a chuckle this morning

@Lucasberg - I appreciate you at least giving a clear depiction of what the counter argument is, which is literally "This is a dude movie for dudes," with no deeper reasoning or thought.

@Lucasberg - "Some things are evident (I've asserted this before)"

Oh, I remember, the classic "I mean, come on" argument. Very convincing.

"Audiences do not line up to watch a movie where a woman fights to avenge her lover’s murder"

I mean, you mentioned Kill Bill, but beyond that, IDK, they haven't really tried that a whole bunch, have they? And you're saying that there's no combination of writer, director, and star that could make that compelling? Come on, dude.

"And that’s the premise of the Fugitive."

I mean, it's not. The Fugitive is about a person fleeing the law after being falsely accused of their spouse's murder, while trying to solve the mystery of who committed the murder. But you'll notice that this is not an article about The Fugitive, nor have I mentioned it once. Because I agree, that one's a bit harder to swallow (though my issue with Zendaya in that case is her age, not her gender.)

"And close up hand to hand combat (ahem the Bourne movies) demand a male in the role because as a brute fact, males are larger, faster, and more threatening in such scenarios"

In the West, maybe. But there are HUNDREDS of martial arts films about women kicking ass, and a lot of them are very good.

"It’s that thing that you and I like to debate over again and again apparently, which is nature."

Man, someone should tell that dude who made the mistake of trying to steal my wife's camera a while back, because she beat the shit out of him. And not just some scrub. This was a notorious serial mugger who had put several women in the hospital, one of which died. But she sent him packing, and when they caught him, the side of his face was black and blue, his eye swollen shut.

Setting that aside, if you really have that much trouble believing that ANY woman could be sufficiently trained to defeat SOME men in hand-to-hand combat, well, then, you're wrong, and you're probably a misogynist. Sorry!

And like, who goes to the movies to see perfectly realistic action movies? The original Bourne movies have our hero walking out of impossible-to-survive car crashes, falls, near drowning, engaging in completely absurd fight scenes, breaking into secure facilities with cartoonishly simplistic "hacking." But you find it all plausible because it's a BIG STRONG MAN. That's just embarrassing.

Just admit that you don't respect women. It'd be refreshing, honestly.

@Lucasberg - "Oh man you actually fact checked what I said about The Fugitive"

Yeah, dude, it's called nuance. Star Wars is a movie about a guy returning lost appliances. Raiders of the Lost Ark is about an archeological expedition. Jaws is about a guy studying sharks. Yes, a person seeking to avenge their spouse's murder is part of it, but there's also the whole non-stop cat and mouse game with the US Marshalls, the corporate intrigue, all the stuff that makes the movie interesting.

"The hundreds of martial arts films you refer to rely upon that magic I referenced"

Except, no, they don't. Like, what do you mean by magic? I think of it as supernatural forces being brought to bear, the Force, Gandalf Gandolfing around, Vampires and Werewolves and whatnot. Are you trying to refer to heightened reality? The thing that all action films have?

"It’s pure comedy reading, “one time, so and so did this, trust me bro”"

Eat shit, dude.

"if you get the greatest female combatants and position them against the greatest male combatants, the male combatants will mow them down EVERY time"

Right, and if that were REMOTELY what we were talking about, it'd be really relevant.

"Generally, girls night out is not motivated by seeing action movies."

Funny thing: Sometimes men see movies with female leads. Dudes that don't hate women, I mean.

"the intrigue lies almost wholly with seeing the mother whose child was murdered – getting revenge about THAT."

It's fine if it's GIRL revenge. But girls can't go out seeking BOY revenge, that'd be absurd.

"Bluntly, how can you demand women share their private spaces and sports with men who feel like girls on the inside"

Oh, I don't. I advocate for thoughtful approaches to allowing trans women (not men) to compete in sports, and for rethinking the way locker rooms are laid out to make everyone safer and more comfortable.

"There was not a thing in my comments that threw disrespect at women."

Other than implying that women's sports are inherently less interesting than men's sports, that an elite female athlete could only believably prevail against "some pretty sad examples of male combatants," that women only see movies as part of a "girl's night out," and by extension, that a girl's night out was the only circumstance that anyone would see a movie with a female lead, yeah, nothing at all.

"I do very much disrespect the feminist belief structure, whose whole vision for life is to erase differences (all of them?) between men and women until ironically, there is only spaces left for men"

Dunning Kruger remains undefeated.

@Lucasberg - "wasted fact check."

Oh shit, I hope I don't run out!

"Action movies have to be grounded without some kind of magic"

You still haven't explained what kind of magic you're talking about. Maybe you can't? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Because I point out how personal anecdotes do not disprove the reality?"

More because you referred to my sharing an anecdote about an assault on my wife as "pure comedy" and implied strongly that I was lying. If you'd said "Anecdotes aren't sufficient evidence," I would have had to grudgingly agreed with you. Though I don't know that we need hard evidence to point out that sometimes women beat up dudes, even BIG, STRONG dudes.

"When we’re talking about the Bourne movies we are absolutely talking about what’s portrayed to be the finest combatants in the world."

God, this is a stupid conversation. It's a fantasy. These people, these organizations, they don't exist. Treadstone isn't real. None of it is remotely realistic. It's an action blockbuster adapted from an airport best-seller for dads. It's not a documentary. Just like I can't use my wife being a badass as evidence against your claim, you can't use "it happened in a movie" as evidence to defend your claim.

And yes, I understand that we have to accept the central logic in the movie. And if Zendaya were cast as a badass who could beat up dudes in the movie, then that would be real in that movie. If you can't get past that, enjoy the other five movies in the original series. Most of them are good, if PROFOUNDLY unrealistic in all kinds of ways.

"The point again, is that the attention that male sports receive is astronomically higher than womens."

Seems to me that that might have something to do with men's sports having decades of head-start in building a fan base and an organization; a long history of mega stars emerging from those teams over time, generating brand awareness and a higher sense of engagement with the fanbase; billions more dollars expended on merchandise and advertising, stuff like that. To chalk it up entirely to "People don't care about women's sports because women are weaker than men" is absurdly reductive, even if that's what you believe.

"Example 3 of slander"

I'll grant you "straw man," but slander? Come on. And if we're talking about straw men, your claim that I "demand women share their private spaces and sports with men" was a beauty. Slander! Slander, I say!

"Dunning Kruger affirmed the most basic observation about human nature which is that people can be confidently wrong."

I've never seen the Dunning Kruger affect demonstrated within an explanation of the Dunning Kruger effect! Impressive!

No, it describes a cognitive bias wherein people tend to overestimate their own expertise on a subject, and that the less they know, the more confident they are in their beliefs. And of course I'm not immune, though I try to stay humble about areas where I lack expertise and experience.

But, for example, I know a lot about feminism. I'll spare you my bonafides, since I know how much you hate anecdotes, but it involves 30+ years of studying and participating in feminist endeavors. Another thing I know a lot about is the science around gender dysphoria. Since I've found myself dealing with transphobes more and more often, I try to stay up on the news and the science, something that you clearly have no interest in doing.

@Lucasberg - Fair enough, though I'd still love to know what magic you're referring to in those martial arts movies. I can live with the mystery, though.