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to play Hannibal...

posted 6 months ago by ShadowHunter (814)
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this guy

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Mommsen_p265.jpg/440px-Mommsen_p265.jpg

https://www.ign.com/articles/denzel-washington-to-play-hannibal-in-new-netflix-historical-epic

can hollywood and nextflix stop stealing other peoples culture? i was told that "its only fictional characters so its fine you guys are triggered about nothing"

[–] chilone (17307) 6 months ago

Hannibal? I heard he was going to play Thomas Jefferson!

[–] ShadowHunter (814) 6 months ago

well actually i heard he was in talks to play Frederik Willem de Klerk, the former SOuth African primeminister and Afrikaner, opposite chris pratt and chris evans who were going to play Nelson Mandela and his rival Mangosuthu Buthelezi. it was going to be an amazing drama about apartheid.

[–] [deleted] 5 months ago

some controversy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/11/denzel-washingtons-casting-as-hannibal-in-netflix-film-sparks-race-controversy-in-tunisia