Everyone is Black Nowadays - Including The Honeymooners

[KayfabeMan]

OK, so I read today in the newspaper that there is a planned 'Honeymooners' film due out this year [the same 'Honeymooners' that featured the late great Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, etc.].

So, hearing this BS news, I head over to IMDB.com to check out the horrible main cast for this thing - which, according to their website, is as follows:

Cedric the Entertainer .... Ralph Kramden
Mike Epps .... Ed Norton
Regina Hall .... Trixie Norton
Gabrielle Union .... Alice Kramden
Eric Stoltz .... William Davis
John Leguizamo .... Dodge

OK, so the cast is total garbage. That's done and out of the way. There are several things that piss me off here, but I'll address just two of the things.

1) The Honeymooners was a TREMENDOUS show, with a great and talented cast. NO ONE, of either race to be discussed, could ever reproduce the cast or the awesome characters on the show. Making a film like this shows just how desperate Hollywood is to re-make EVERYTHING.

2) It's even more ridiculous that this will be made into a film with African-American actors playing the Kramdens, Nortons, etc. I don't understand how it is perfectly fine for a 'black' actor to play a 'white character', but how if a white actor plays a 'black character' it's totally wrong and everyone causes an uproar.

I'm not meaning my comment(s) as a racist thing, because certainly I'm not, but what I am saying is that it's ridiculous to change the entire character in this way.

First they re-make Kojak with Ving Rhames - now this.