Djimon Hounsou Thinks He’s Being Tricky
Djimon Hounsou is a fine, well-recognized actor. He is also African, and speaks which a very pronounced African accent. He recently told IESB that he’s going to play a comic book superhero, but won’t reveal which one. Let’s try and guess, shall we? Is it:
A) Luke Cage, the Brooklyn ghetto-born hero known as Power Man?
B) John Stewart, the U.S.-born black Green Lantern who replaces the white Green Lantern whenever the Justice League needs more diversity?
C) The Black Panther, who’s an African king who speaks with a heavy African accent and whose movie has been recently mentioned in Variety as being helmed by John Singleton?
I know my guess, but I’ll leave it for you to figure out. Incidentally, if I’m going to watch a movie called Black Panther, it should be full of evil white guys getting beat up, Shaft-style. I’m just sayin’.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.