Stan Lee Shares His Thoughts On 'Donald Glover for Spider-Man'!

FIRST of all, Stan Lee never says anything bad about anything...

second of all, its not an issue of his skin color, its an issue of his talent. he doesnt have any.

No way this guy is getting this gig.

Im in no way a racist so lets not even start calling eachother racist. Point is, peter parker is a white kid from the suburbs and it should stay that way. Should we make a Luke Cage movie starring Brad Pitt? How about a Black Panther movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis? Let's get megan fox to play Storm. Mel Gibson would make a great Bishop in the upcoming xmen movie...

Firstly, I have to agree that this guy doesnt have the acting chops to pull a roll like this off. Secondly, I wouldnt care if he did - changing a major character like Spider-Man's race would be as bad as making Luke Cage or Black Panther white! I just want to see these characters portrayed on the big screen as they always have been in the comic books. That doesnt make me, or anyone else here, a racist!

can anybody direct me to anything that Stan says about the Ultimate Universe?
i heard he doesn't like it but i'm not sure where to get concrete conversations saying so.

Is this the guy that did the Chocolate Rain video on youtube?

If he does get the role I just hope it was because they thought he was the best person for the role. :)

Stan covered it pretty well.

@divo - you might be able to talk me into Daniel Day-Lewis as Black Panther and Mel Gibson as Bishop. Of course, I KNOW they're great actors. Maybe if I'd seen that kind of evidence for this kid...

@Number21 LMAO!

OK, This needs to stop. NO WAY IS THIS KID GETTING THE PETER PARKER/SPIDERMAN ROLL. WTF!!!!!!!!!

I can see him playing spiderman, only if they go with a more gritty type of movie. His acting is exceptional!

they should get mclovin to play spiderman hes the perfect natural nerd, and he kind of proved he can fight in kick ass.

There's no way he's going to be Spider-man LOL. Not that I'm against him or anything. I think he's hilarious in Community. There's just no way Sony would change their lead from a white guy to a black guy when the franchise has done well.

They should make a Static Shock movie. There's plenty of non-white characters that can be developed into a movie.

If you make Peter Parker black, then you create an entire group of issues that do not currently exist in the Spider-man story. Flash Thompson beating up on Pete becomes a racial issue. J. Jonah Jameson yelling at Peter becomes a racial issue. Are you going to make MJ and or Gwen African-American, too? If not, you have interracial relationship issues.

Yes, you could make the movie and just ignore these aspects, but it would take it farther away from reality -- there is only so much "suspension of disbelief" that the audience will accept.

Glover may be a fine actor. But a "black nerd" creates a different stereotype than a "white nerd." Part of the Spider-man story is playing off of stereotypes. Little nerdy Peter Parker gains super powers, puts on a costume and becomes cool. It just won't work the same way with a "black nerd" because the "black nerd" is a play off the stereotype already. Let's face it, when you think of "black nerd," there is only one guy who comes to mind . . . Urkel from Family Matters. (Even the black "nerd" from Revenge of the Nerds was flamboyantly gay -- so not the same.)

@divo But the difference is that race is really a main point for some of those characters. Storm and Black Panther are both African characters and Luke Cage was Marvel's Blaxploitation character (changing Bishop to a white character isn't really a big deal in my opinion. It'd be kinda like how Idris Elba is playing a white character in the Thor movie). I thought the main point of Peter Parker is that he could be anyone (even East Indian, there's a miniseries called Spider-Man India where he's changed to be Indian)

I'm black and I don't even want this...unless it was an alt.universe like crisis or the more recent Fantastic Four comics issues# 593-596.

I think Glover and his agent started this mess and it needs to stop now. I really do not care about people racial likes and dislikes I just love comics and movies and when the two come together it is the best.

The rest of the is is for the birds.

Local Man is totally right! you change the character's race and you change everything else. so much of the ordinary day-to-day bits of Peter's life would take on a whole new meaning (and most of it very negative) if he was black.

but i am against this because he is not right for the role at all. not because of his skin color. but because he is just not right. period.

I am a person who grew up with the marvel universe based on comic books. As a fan I would like Peter Parker be portrayed as a white but we are right now in a new era of equal rights and more understanding society. If you really want a spiderman movie with a black actor, first Change the origins on comicbooks. It will be a diferent transition for all of us comibook readers. Then we can talk about someone helming a movie from a diferent race. Also give black marvel character more publicity or create a new on from scratch, so we can see a bunch of black talented actors aproaching these roles. Marvel universe goes back more than 50 years, when racial factors were a market problem that did not brought the green's. Let's hope that marvel will see a great oportunity with the b-heroes to make them outstand along of their regular a-team characters

At first I thought that it was a crazy idea because of his race, but after thinkin' about it, who really cares. If he's a good actor, then why not let him give it a try. After all, not all comic book movies are 100% accurate with the books they are portraying.