http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twitter-campaign-wants-community-actor-to-be-first-non-white-spider-man.html

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"Could the movies soon have the first African American Spider-Man? If thousands of Twitter users get their way, the star of Sony's upcoming reboot of the franchise will be Donald Glover, best known from his role on NBC's "Community." This weekend the Twitter hashtag "donald4spiderman" became the #3 trending topic in the U.S., and the campaign is still gaining steam. The origins of this latest attempt by social media users to influence casting decisions occurred last week. After surveying the five mostly unknown white actors said to be vying for the role, Marc Bernadin, a writer for the sci-fi site io9.com, called the choices "bland" and asked, "In this day and age, why does Spidey have to be a white guy?" In response, commenters threw out Donald Glover's name as a possible contender, and a Twitter campaign was born. A unique aspect of this latest fan campaign is its wholehearted support by the subject in question. Glover seems to like the idea (though he makes it clear on his Twitter page that he's interested in auditioning, not just being handed the role without first having to prove his worthiness). While he had nothing to do with its inception, Glover himself has been promoting the campaign, instructing fans to tweet the #donald4spiderman hash tag at strategic times to keep it trending. In years past, an Internet petition of this kind might not be given much credence, but given the overwhelming success of the recent social-media uprising to get Betty White a hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live," this could be Glover's ticket to director Marc Webb's tryout room. He and his fans will have to act fast, though: The Hollywood Reporter is already forecasting the five most likely contenders for the role, and Glover is not on the list Glover, a comedian and former writer for "30 Rock," has starred in only one movie so far: "Mystery Team," a comedy he co-created with his sketch comedy team, Derrick Comedy, which came out in 2009. One hurdle Glover's fans will have is in his presumed bankability as a movie star: "Mystery Team" brought in a meager $89.4 thousand in domestic box-office sales. "

6/2/2010 12:17:39 AM

lol at the usage of "African American"

6/2/2010 12:18:11 AM

Worked for Nick Fury

6/2/2010 12:18:23 AM

no, a baggy spider suit would look silly

6/2/2010 12:18:42 AM

african american spider

6/2/2010 12:21:18 AM

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"NON WHITE SPIDERMAN"

6/2/2010 12:23:59 AM

what do they call black people in england, other than black

6/2/2010 12:26:56 AM

wankers

6/2/2010 12:27:40 AM

thief

6/2/2010 12:29:06 AM

guvna

6/2/2010 12:29:07 AM

i'm sorry spider man can stay white

6/2/2010 12:46:10 AM

i don't see how spider-man's race is detrimental to his character

especially in the Year of Your Lord 2010

6/2/2010 12:49:01 AM

i mean, it's kind of a stupid issue. stan lee made him white...

6/2/2010 12:52:26 AM

in other news

stan lee's horrendous and abhorrent treatment of jack kirby still sickens me

6/2/2010 12:59:57 AM

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"african american spider"

6/2/2010 1:04:09 AM

black superman or bust!

6/2/2010 1:19:45 AM

then what would venom (or whatever) be? i thought he was the black spiderman

6/2/2010 1:41:35 AM

^ also a white man

6/2/2010 1:43:00 AM

why's he gotta speak english or even walk on only two legs. this is the 90's, after all

6/2/2010 2:15:30 AM

6/2/2010 4:35:30 AM

i'd go see it if it was a blaxploitation film.

spi-da-man or something along that line. it doesn't even have to have dialogue other than "damn!" and "that's funky!"

6/2/2010 5:11:10 AM

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"If thousands of Twitter users get their way"

lol ... thousands? what is this, 1999

6/2/2010 5:55:18 AM

SPYDA DOES WHAT SPYDA DO

6/2/2010 6:03:55 AM

Let's go full PC and have Tony Shalhoub as the next Spiderman.

6/2/2010 6:15:20 AM

he be tossing webs and shit, yo.

6/2/2010 7:16:19 AM

Glover is a fine comedic actor and I love his Derrick Comedy stuff as well as his role on Community. But that being said, i'm not supporting his push for Spiderman. I just don't see it.

6/2/2010 8:38:27 AM

To me it look like a spider to me.

6/2/2010 4:30:13 PM

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"Worked for Nick Fury"

I thought they were just using the "Ultimate" universe version of Fury.

6/2/2010 5:47:37 PM

the new karate kid is black, too

WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!

6/2/2010 5:48:48 PM

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 5:50 PM. Reason : ]

6/2/2010 5:50:22 PM

^^^ Yeah but they made him black in the ultimate universe, pretty much the same thing.

^^ Better than that time they made Karate Kid a girl.

No girl has the will of the warrior. You have the will of the housewife, or at best the schoolmarm.

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM. Reason : ]

6/2/2010 5:54:21 PM

6/2/2010 6:21:22 PM

the new karate kid is Will Smith's son

6/2/2010 6:22:13 PM

will smith was in 7 pounds

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

6/2/2010 7:23:23 PM

As far as I know, there's always been a black spider man.

Venom right?

6/2/2010 7:30:43 PM

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26972

7/2/2010 12:51:19 PM

The recent spiderman trilogy is not even 10 years. Why the fuck does it need a reboot.

By the way, Spiderman needs to be WHITE. Bad enough was the fact that the Wild Wild West had Will Smith.

Maybe in the next Pablo Escobar movie they could make Pablo asian or in the matrix revitilization Morpheous can be arab.

7/2/2010 1:07:27 PM

That's racist!

7/2/2010 1:09:44 PM

7/2/2010 1:59:44 PM