Lol. Guys we're all too intelligent to hang on this point as if its meant to be taken literally. When he says he's "seen that movie" before he's obviously not saying that all movies with white leads are the same. He's saying they're 98% of hollywood and overly abundant, so why would he contribute towards that when he is one of the few black directors who can secure a budget behind his movies and cast black leads which is uncommon unless your name is Denzel, Will Smith or Kevin Hart.

Even if the movie he's making isn't from a racial perspective it still makes a difference to job opportunities and representation. Lupita probably hasn't offered a lead in a horror film until now because she wouldn't be what many white directors would imagine as a heroine in that genre. Her biggest hollywood break before black panther (where they're forced to cast black people) is voicing an alien in star wars. 

I’ll never understand why this race thing is such a thing in America. I’ve seen the trailer for this movie, you know what I thought? “Wow looks creepy as h*ll.” Not once for even a millisecond did “Hey, these are black people” enter my mind. People are people to me and to pretty much everyone here.

Lol, truly the IGN article all over again where people were like "but what if you reverse races!?"

The statement would make zero sense if the races were reversed because there is an infinite amount of films being released with white leads. It'd be like a game dev saying they only want to make FPS' because the genre is so niche in 2019. It'd simply be false. Furthermore if the races were reversed that director would be consciously contributing towards a power dynamic where people of colour struggle in hollywood and are way under representated. That would bring backlash. What Jordan Peele says will do nothing but bring more equality to the industry.

But believe me, many white Directors already believe and act this way. They won't and don't cast POC as leads because they do not see themselves in those POC and they don't see it as commercially viable.

As per usual these threads on VGC just show how unaware many white people are to racial power dynamics in media and when someone tries to even the playing field or acknowledge the fact that its uneven, many white people start to cry about "racism", "segregation" lol

We need a few Jordan Peele in the games industry too

Agree don't get it either.

Just saw the trailer for Get Out and was like wtf is with the stupid things appearing and disappearing, that's been done to death already.

I hope when I watch the movie it will not be all like that in the horror bits.

I don't fully think you understand what disproportionately being represented means. A population that makes up the majority; are going to be the ones most represented, that's just logic, that's math. Being overrepresented is when a population that makes up about 13% of the population dominates entire mediums. That's when it's disproportionate. Anyway on the subject of Us, the movie is not about race at all. Did people even watch it?

Oh, I know what racism is. The problem is that you want to believe in some ridiculous definition of it where it's all contextual and power based. Which really, in a world where people have equal opportunity (sorry, there are no guaranteed equal outcomes), is just racist. You feel those poor minorities can't make it on their own, so must be boosted up by society and/or the government more than whites, while having a different set of standards to how they act and talk. I just don't buy that BS. Not when we have Asians, another minority, that have basically excelled in every category despite all this supposed continuing racism.  And especially pathetic when you see what the newly freed slaves and their children and grandchildren accomplished when they faced actual racism. 1000x anything we see today. They didn't need to constantly fake hate crimes because they were actually happening.

You don't create equality by having lower standards for one group, while trying to bring the majority group down a few notches. That's racism on both ends.

Did he say the bolded? because if that's true, then it looks even worse on his part, since his films borrow heavily (Us especially) from other directors in the horror genre, many of whom are white.

Hey as someone said in the thread, if he said "I want to tell stories relating to my childhold/young years as a black kid, and for that I think a black lead would make more sense" that would be totally understandable and not a shred of racism. When he say he won't hire white people for lead roles (which I don't have problem) and media double standard threat it that is the point.

So thanks for recognizing there is a double standard, and seemly you abide by it.

When I say they, I'm saying everyone that thinks about making quotas, new segregation and similar stuff. Same as with again the double standard when we have black people posting hatred against white people (and being applauded). You won't won over "the other side" when you continuously say how much you hate them or that they are the enemy.

I do agree with your point that having all white, all black, all child, all old isn't prejudice by default, as that could be necessary to the story. One could certainly question the motivation to only write or direct stories that have a single group, but that also isn't what I was complaining.

I'm not even complaining that he basically said that all possible stories with white leads have been told (like if skin color would change stories by themselves, even though the examples Rol gave were very good on those were good movies with non-white cast, not sure if we can say that the race was the reason for it though).

My sole point is that when a black director wants to have his vision and follow it, even if it were racist (don't think it is in this case), media embraces. But if same was done by a white director it would be heavily criticized. That is a double standard that helps to divide and segregate. And to retain the high ground they will make claims of "reverse racism doesn't exist", "racism only exist if one race is systematically harmed", etc.

The problem isn't that it isn't getting any backlash, it's that the opposite would. It's absolutely fine to have preferences when creating or consuming art. And the sooner people get that into their thick skulls the better.

Genres aren't segregated, each stands in its own right together with all other genres. Can't wait until the first Fantasy author is accused of discrimination against Sci-Fi.