Originally Posted by HN (Post 12861588)

how heavy is the rocket pack?

Originally Posted by devilshalo (Post 11356518)

I say re-release the original, and then do a story about a new Rocketeer finding or inheriting the helmet and suit.

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt (Post 12861766)

I loved THE ROCKETEER, but I think Disney is really overestimating the fanbase (unless this isn't planned as a summer tentpole). I remember them promoting the heck out of the first movie, and it tanked, despite getting pretty good reviews.

Originally Posted by Artman (Post 12861868)

I'll be interested if it's meant as a sequel set within 25yrs the first took place. I just don't agree with the "it will be this gender, and this race" mentality going in.

Originally Posted by Supermallet (Post 12861937)

I'm confused. Are you saying you don't agree with choosing the gender and ethnicity of characters in stories? Because literally every movie ever made has done that.

Originally Posted by B5Erik (Post 12862048)

Here's the thing, this sequel/reboot has entered the Wild Wild West territory. "History be damned, reality be damned, we're going to change the character the way we want to change it, regardless of how historically ludicrous that would be!"



Just like James West could never have been a black man in the 1870's or 1880's (a black man trying to arrest white men back then would have eventually been shot or lynched, regardless of his authority - as wrong as that would be, a black lawman of any kind, federal, state, or local, just wouldn't have been accepted), you can't have your main character be a black female pilot in the 1940s! Such a thing never existed. It wasn't fair, it wasn't right, but that was reality.

The politically correct social justice crowd in Hollywood is out of touch with history. Or they think they can re-write it.

At least with Agent Carter the writers understood that a woman, even one as intelligent and badass as Sharon Carter was, would not have been accepted as a field agent by her superiors until she took matters into her own hands. But an, "African-American female pilot," in the 1940's? That never happened and it never could have happened. Not in that environment. There were only a handful of white female pilots in the 1940's. A black woman would have had zero chance of being allowed to learn how to fly. Again, it wasn't right, it wasn't fair, but we can't re-write history.

It's enough of a stretch to say that a rocket pack that allows a person to fly without an airplane could have existed. But to then say that something else that was practically impossible also existed at the same time? It stretches credibility and believability beyond the breaking point.

There are so many ways that Hollywood could find to include African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, etc, that they don't need to do historic fantasy that attempts to re-write history and undo some of the wrongs that were done then. Hell, an argument could be made that trying to undo those wrongs minimizes them as it could lead future generations to believe that things weren't as bad for some groups back then as they really were.

Originally Posted by majorjoe23 (Post 12862052)

Too bad there isn't a search engine that can prove everything you just said wrong.

Oh wait, Willa Brown.

Originally Posted by B5Erik (Post 12862048)

you can't have your main character be a black female pilot in the 1940s! Such a thing never existed. It wasn't fair, it wasn't right, but that was reality.