The Passion for Superman: Michael B. Jordan refused to play black Clark Kent

American production company Outlier society working on exclusive for streaming service HBO Max mini-series about black Superman… This was reported by portal sources Collider

Outlier Society is led by renowned Hollywood actor Michael B. Jordan (“CreedAccording to preliminary data, the company has hired a writer to write a script about the adventures of a Kryptonian Val-Zoda with Earth-2

Earlier it became known that the director J.J. Abrams and his company Bad robot working on a film about black Of a man of steel… The script is written by a controversial writer and journalist Ta-Nahasi Coates

It is known that Michael B. Jordan has been interested in the black Krypton project since sometime in 2018. However, the actor made it clear that he was not involved in the Abrams project.

Insiders said the actor didn’t like the plan WarnerMedia, within which it was supposed to simply change the color of the skin Clark Kent (Kal-El, Superman). Instead, Jordan began creating a project about Val-Zoda, which was originally introduced in the comics as a black superhero.

“Jordan didn’t want to get involved in the Kal-El blackwashing talks for the same reasons that many fans oppose Warner Bros.’s rethinking of Clark Kent.” – said journalist Jamie Brodnex in an article for the portal Black girl nerds

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