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Hugh_Lebowski

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3. It's one thing to update a cartoon universe like The Little Mermaid
Sun Jun 4, 2023, 02:58 PM
Jun 2023

It's something entirely different to mess with the fact that James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, part of legitimate literary canon ... are a couple of British dudes.

Halle Berry has no business being cast as James Bond. Make her a new IP, based loosely on Bond ... that's been done like 1000 times, in fact with male and female actors/characters.

Beloved fairy tales should be handled similarly. Don't call it 'Hansel and Gretel' if the two main characters are the same gender, just call it something else that makes reference to it.

MHO, fwiw

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