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George Smiley in the BBC adaptations of John Le Carre novels.
Good points.
Not "all" the native characters. In many cases there were actual Native Americans playing background or secondary characters, but the one in charge with a bigger speaking role would be played by a Hispanic or a white guy in makeup. This was how it was done in John Ford's own film "The Searchers." The Comanche chief, Scar, was played by Henry Brandon, a German-American. His blue eyes are really noticeable in many shots... though it is rumored that the character may have been inspired by Quanah Parker, a Comanche war leader of mixed race who was known for his blue eyes. And in Ford's "Cheyenne Autumn," chief Little Wolf was played by Ricardo Montalban, who was from Mexico but had no indigenous ancestry since his parents were European Spaniards.
Well I think the gritty look fits the story pretty well.
The sequel has already been greenlit by the studio, with release set for 2023.
What is filk?
Is this in continuity with the other DC animated movies, or is it in its own universe based on the Injustice video games?
"He specifically sought racial diversity in his cast"
Sorry, but Roddenberry shouldn't be given too much credit as some kind of trailblazer when it comes to casting diversity. He often engaged in self-aggrandizing self-promotion over the years to make it look like he was some kind of visionary with all these brilliant forward-thinking ideas in Star Trek, when a lot of it was really attributable to others.
Just look at Roddenberry's original concept for Star Trek as on display in the first pilot episode "The Cage." The cast was lily white! The only ethnic minority character to be seen is one Asian guy stuck down in the transporter room as a low-level technician with no lines of dialog whatsoever. Even the navigator on the bridge crew who was supposed to be part South American and had the Spanish first name "Jose" was pale, blond and blue-eyed.
By the time the 'series proper' went into production with the cast we are now familiar with, NBC's network executives had already been promoting diversity with other shows such as "I, Spy," which featured a black lead and a white lead as co-stars and premiered over a year before Star Trek. Star Trek wasn't doing anything new with Uhura and Sulu. It was just going along with what NBC was already doing. In 1966 NBC sent out a memo to all its TV producers letting them know they were expected to be racially inclusive in casting, especially with African Americans. Yes, Nichelle Nichols was cast as Uhura before that memo went out. But consider the fact that Roddenberry and Nichols had been romantically involved before that. Gene R. had a tendency to cast his lovers in roles in his shows, as seen with Majel Barret in "The Cage." Later on Roddenberry would try to put the NBC executives in a bad light, claiming that they axed the character because they didn't want a woman in a command role. Nope, they didn't have a problem with the character. They just didn't like Barret's portrayal because she simply wasn't a good actor at the time.