We headed to Times Square to see what moviegoers have to say about the 'Community' actor playing Peter Parker.
By Rick Marshall
Donald Glover
Photo: Jason Laveris/ FilmMagic
Earlier this week, a fan campaign to cast "Community" actor Donald Glover as the star of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie had the online world buzzing, with creators and fans alike weighing in on the idea of casting an African-American actor as the new Peter Parker.
Earlier Wednesday (June 2), MTV News spoke to comic book historian Alan Kistler to get his take on the heated debate raging around the Twitterverse — a discussion that became one of the hottest topics on Twitter this weekend and resulted in a Facebook fan group more than 8,000 members strong at last count. "There is nothing in the comic or the origin of the character that has to do with what ethnicity [Peter Parker] is, the color of his skin or his background,...
By Rick Marshall
Donald Glover
Photo: Jason Laveris/ FilmMagic
Earlier this week, a fan campaign to cast "Community" actor Donald Glover as the star of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie had the online world buzzing, with creators and fans alike weighing in on the idea of casting an African-American actor as the new Peter Parker.
Earlier Wednesday (June 2), MTV News spoke to comic book historian Alan Kistler to get his take on the heated debate raging around the Twitterverse — a discussion that became one of the hottest topics on Twitter this weekend and resulted in a Facebook fan group more than 8,000 members strong at last count. "There is nothing in the comic or the origin of the character that has to do with what ethnicity [Peter Parker] is, the color of his skin or his background,...
- 6/3/2010
- MTV Movie News
We headed to Times Square to see what moviegoers have to say about the 'Community' actor playing Peter Parker.
By Rick Marshall
Donald Glover
Photo: Jason Laveris/ FilmMagic
Earlier this week, a fan campaign to cast "Community" actor Donald Glover as the star of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie had the online world buzzing, with creators and fans alike weighing in on the idea of casting an African-American actor as the new Peter Parker.
Earlier Wednesday (June 2), MTV News spoke to comic book historian Alan Kistler to get his take on the heated debate raging around the Twitterverse — a discussion that became one of the hottest topics on Twitter this weekend and resulted in a Facebook fan group more than 8,000 members strong at last count. "There is nothing in the comic or the origin of the character that has to do with what ethnicity [Peter Parker] is, the color of his skin or his background,...
By Rick Marshall
Donald Glover
Photo: Jason Laveris/ FilmMagic
Earlier this week, a fan campaign to cast "Community" actor Donald Glover as the star of the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie had the online world buzzing, with creators and fans alike weighing in on the idea of casting an African-American actor as the new Peter Parker.
Earlier Wednesday (June 2), MTV News spoke to comic book historian Alan Kistler to get his take on the heated debate raging around the Twitterverse — a discussion that became one of the hottest topics on Twitter this weekend and resulted in a Facebook fan group more than 8,000 members strong at last count. "There is nothing in the comic or the origin of the character that has to do with what ethnicity [Peter Parker] is, the color of his skin or his background,...
- 6/3/2010
- MTV Music News
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