The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wro

The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer. The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen todayCasting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was somehow still acceptable to sign up Max von Sydow to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon in 1980, or hire Peter Ustinov as the lead in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981 (despite protests at the time).

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Trechos de apoio da pauta: The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen todayCasting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was somehow still acceptable to sign up Max von Sydow to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon in 1980, or hire Peter Ustinov as the lead in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981 (despite protests at the time). These days, film-makers will have to defend an all-white cast in a medieval fantasy flick, which appears to be what has happened this week to The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’s Andy Serkis.Asked by the BBC why every major casting for the new film has been a white actor, Serkis appeared to lay the blame on his literary source material.

• Ponto de atenção: hunt.
• Ponto de atenção: gollum.
• Ponto de atenção: being.

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