Kane & Lynch movie doomed to fail because of Foxx?

Msxbox-world looks at why Jamie Foxx being cast as the character Lynch in the movie already spells doom.

[-MD-]

Why would you make a movie based on a game that wasn't even good in the first place? That's just asking for trouble.

[Biggest]

I totally agree. The game is hardly movie worthy. Don't blame this bullcrap on Jamie Foxx. If anything, he will make the movie slightly worthwhile.

[dredgewalker]

I have to agree but remember that movies based on great games also fail a lot......I still get the chills whenever I remember the Tekken movie. I want just want to know who makes the scripts so we can properly lynch them for making bad movies out of the great games we enjoyed. The only decent game movie for me was the first Mortal Kombat and to this day I still say its 100 million times better than the recent game based movies.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

The game was crap, but the history behind it had a lot of potential... Death row, prisonbreak, kidnap, blackmail, bank robbering, vengeance, worldwide settings, shooutouts, cliffhanger moments... It could work.

[Baka-akaB]

my prob isnt even yet the casting (still i agree that it's a silly choice) , as usual they only pick either stuff that isnt good to adapt for movies (fighting games) , or games wich a plot that is basically a parody or copy of existing holywood stuff .

Those games would be providing an holywood experience that is missing and works for game .... but nothing new and interesting for movie industry

[hazelamy]

but this film will likely be the one to buck the trend and actually be a bloody great movie.
as for foxx, i think he's a pretty good actor, and he did win an oscar for god sake.
reading the article the problem they seem to have is that he's black and the character was white in the game, that the director is black also seems to be a point against the film in their opinion too.

[SeanScythe]

Wasn't bruce willis in a movie a little simular? Him and Billy Bob Thornton they both robbed banks, I know it's not the same story or characters but that movie reminds me of this game. The movie was Bandits made in 2001

[siyrobbo]

i love that film, not seen it in a long while

[HeroXIV]

Oh Bandits, that was awesome. I first thought you were on about 16 blocks (Bruce Willis) and in that he plays a guy with a persona A LOT like Lynch.

[Baka-akaB]

i always thought that K&L were basically a game version of Bandits . Wich is partially , why again , i found it very useless to adapt a game that is already a straight rip of movies

[Tompkins]

Totally weird decision to make.

[gravemaker]

its gonna be FLOP

[ATLGAMER]

Only think it will fail because he is black...he is a talented actor...and Why is it okay to make ang white but not to make lynch black...This is just a racist argument...ITs jsut cause they changed his Race that is his only problem...I SAID IT FIRST

[madpuppy]

a different race so that they feel will draw a larger racial demographic. That seems to be Will Smith's purpose in Hollywood lately...ruining established characters because Hollywood thinks they will make more money if James West talks like a modern "urban" man getting "jiggy wit it".
It's just absurd politically correct pandering to black audiences

It's like casting Jim Carey as Malcolm X or Robin Williams as Martin Luther King JR.

Hollywood, putting the funk in movies that don't need it for years.

[madpuppy]

angry dissagree(s) with no reply has no teeth and no defense. If you are being politically correct...don't bother, I prefer real discussions.

[Biggest]

That was a completely stupid comment. You are a moron. I wish I could do more than disagree with you. Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have nothing to do with your stupidity. This is about a stupid video game with stupid video game characters. Will Smith is the star of some of the most well recieved movies in the history of motion pictures. Hollywood doesn't care about race. And if you haven't been paying attention to Jamie Foxx in the past 5 years I'll let you in on a secret. . . He doesn't get jiggy wit it. He doesn't play the urban man (Which is your obvious racism labeling black people as urban. Urban has a definition and black person is not it.) looking to dance for the man. You're a bigot.

[morganfell]

Well biggest you seem to think that a movie with a racially correct actor automatically means accuracy and that isn't the case either.

Denzel Washington's portrayal of Malcom X, while stirring and intense was hardly truthful. Stop acting as if Malcom X and MLK are high and mighty above movies based upon video games. If you are that socially righteous you should be out organizing your community instead of interacting on a video game forum. What snobbery.

The game while having issues had a gritty story and characters whose appeal was far more than some blond androgynous 19 year old kid saving the world. The movie has potential and Foxx will utterly ruin the white trash side of Lynch's character. Keep preaching madpuppy, these politically correct people need to go away.

Telling the truth isn't bigotry in the manner he related. Such PC driven moves are idiocy. Nick Fury black? Can I make Blade white? Black Green Lantern? Socially driven stupidity.

And yes, Will Smith ruined I Robot - as did the director - and utterly trashed Wild Wild West. Some people are obviously too illiterate in one case and too young in the other to understand.

[-Ikon-]

I was going to reply to Madpuppy but Biggest took care of this idiots back to back post.

[Active Reload]

Why don't people base it on the fact Jamie Foxx can act and not his skin color? I think he is very talented. As a matter of fact his talents in the Soloist could probably stretch on over into Kayne and Lynch, just with that element from the Soloist character. And madpuppy, knew what he was doing with the "urban", "getting jiggy with it" comment, ignorance doesn't need defending no matter what the circumstance Morganfell.

But back to the point I was trying to make. I really don't see any white actors out there that really can act well. And I mean the new talent that is out there is...its not talent, nothing that could take on this role anyway. Thats the reason I don't care about most movies that come out, because they SUCK! All the great white actors are getting old and there isn't anyone out there to replace them. I haven't seen anything as impressive as what Heath Ledger did with the Joker. And its sad he died so young.

[morganfell]

Because Kane and Lynch are established characters and the nature of Lynch is established. It isn't as if they are simply changing the town in which he was born. It's wrong but it was done as the producers were too cowardly to actually try to stay true to the reason they supposedly wanted to make the film in the first place.

It has nothing to do with Foxx's ethnicity...and it has everything to do with it. It isn't anything against Foxx as a black man but it's the fact that Kane is white. Period. No racism, no bigotry, just an established character.

If the character didn't have 2 games under his belt we would all say, "Knock yourself out. Make him Chinese if you want and then give us all a series of games with a Chinese Lynch.

Some of the people in this discussion amaze me. They argue why video games make crappy movies then defend a move that detracts from the accuracy of the video game in the first place. Such people are part of the problem with game to screen transistions.

Screaming racisim concerning such remarks is the first line of defense for the political correctness crowd. I am sure were they able the ACLU would have already been brought into any such discussion. It's no different from saying Luke Cage is black, Tarzan was white, or the Green Lantern had difficulty combating yellow.

It isn't racism, it's canon and people want the canon preserved. Contrary to what some idiots believe, many people actually liked Kane and Lynch and are enthralled by the latest iteration and they want that canon preserved.

[ReservoirDog316]

This is a really delicate subject cause people automatically shout racism. But I'll try adding something to it.

The Malcolm X thing didn't seem to go over well so I'll try this: imagine if, in the game, Lynch was black and, for the movie, they turned him white. That wouldn't have went over well at all. So why's it okay reversed?

The game (1) was very flawed but the characters' backstory's were very interesting. I don't like that they cast Foxx as Lynch but it's 60% cause he really isn't similar to the character of Lynch and 40% cause they didn't stay true to the two old men feel that drew me to the first game.

Will it be good? Remains to be seen. But I'm optimistic cause of Bruce Willis' comments on the script.

In a perfect world though, I would've picked Daniel Day-Lewis as Lynch. Best actor alive today.

[pixelsword]

*NEWSFLASH*

Hollywood doesn't care if a bunch of flabby gaming nerds get upset about their decisions. All four of you will be missed at the movies... not.

And quit playing the race card on Jamie Foxx; I didn't see any articles talking about the Mummy being Ruined because an Egyptan was played by a white person.

@ Morgafell:

"Screaming racisim concerning such remarks is the first line of defense for the political correctness crowd."

Screaming they're just giving it to him because he's black/asian/hispanic/whatever is the first line of defense for the teabagging crowd.

Just face it: the game was butt and a bunch of people who make it a career of knowing how to draw money in the box office will do whatever to ensure that they'll get their investment back.

[morganfell]

"Screaming they're just giving it to him because he's black/asian/hispanic/whatever is the first line of defense for the teabagging crowd."

I know that wasn't aimed at me because that would mean you are an a dullard when it comes to perception. Say you are not.

Though it is his race that makes him unsuitable for the role the reason it was given to Fox has nothing to do with race. It has to do with his name - a Oscar winner designed to generate ticket sales. Though like many Oscar winners his choices since have failed to reveal the brilliance that won him the award in the first place.

I can't believe you are errant enough to miss the point I made when I remarked about producers being cowards. I may or may not be missed at the movies but if your aforementioned remark was leveled at me then you simply missed altogether.

And did the mummy have a canon established? Please do point me to it as I have never forgotten my first introduction to the material at the hands of Karloff.

And until Hollywood begins listening to the so called nerds - I believe you are one but then again so are people like Daniel Craig - then they will never succeed in the game to movie transition because it is only the nerd crowd that seems to understand what made the IP worth of a cinema version in the first place.

[pixelsword]

A couple of things, morganfell

1. my comment wasn't directed at you UNLESS you embrace the fact that every call of racism is the knee-jerk reaction of people who are "political correct", and totally ignore the facts that in a good number of cases racism is exactly what is going on where people are simply point out what is going on. That was I was doing there, a mere addendum.

2. Your comment "And did the mummy have a canon established? Please do point me to it as I have never forgotten my first introduction to the material at the hands of Karloff." If you want to establish who's a dullard using that statement, you may not like the results: history's "canon" points out that before Karloff, a fiction character, the Racial identity of anyone before Ptolemy's rule in terms of Pharonic rule was of African ancestry according to various and numerous resources of the past, including Roman, Greek, Hebraic, Persian, and other sources of antiquity (Ptolemy was born an Egyptian Where Egypt was under Roman Rule, yet Rome did not interfere with rule of the Pharaoh). Although servants (and citizens after a certain point after their history) were of a myriad of racial backgrounds, the knowledge of a magician was passed-down from father to son until the rule of Ptolemy and the subsequent destruction of the Egyptian civilization through his family's line and would eliminate a non-African sorcerer's origin for the mummy's story. Despite that fact, this recent incantation of that "mummy" was supposed to be living around the existence of Ramses, which makes the whole story non-feasible. Yet, if you were to say that it is a work of fiction and does not need to be 100% accurate, you would have just undermined your point: as if a story based upon historical facts need not be accurate because it is fiction, how much irrelevant does accuracy need to be for non-fiction characters?

[madpuppy]

"Will Smith is the star of some of the most well recieved movies in the history of motion pictures." HAHAHA you are an IDIOT! The wild, wild west?Independence Da?y,Hancock?,Hitch?? He is terrible! Will Smith makes Robin Williams look good. why would they cast Jamie Foxx as lynch? two games and the character is established as a "very" white man. there is NO reason. Why are they considering casting a black actor as Peter Parker in the next Spiderman? He has been a white guy for 40+ years there is no reason to do that other than to pander to black audiences.

as for the MLK and Malcolm X comment, it got the right response I intended from the likes of YOU. you got angry, and rightly so. Only an idiot would cast a white guy as malcolm X or MLK. or how about a Gears of war movie with the wrestler Steve Austin cast as Cole train? Or a new Shaft movie with Jackie Chan as Shaft?

Also, just because kane and Lynch was a bad game DOES NOT mean that it won't be a good movie. the story is solid. there are many great movies that would never be good games, Gandi is a classic movie, not very good game material, same with Casablanca.

As for the word "racist" that is a weasel word used to belittle anther persons statement. It is used like a rock by a stupid person to prove that he/she is politically correct. Just because you don't see the absurdity of Will Smith playing a modern black man in the old west (and that is how Will Smith played the character) one of the most racially intolerant time in this countries history, and to play a Government officer directly commissioned by President Grant himself is absurd and spits in the face of history and ALL oppressed peoples of that time in America Black, Asian ect...

Bigot, racist, all words used by the ignorant to prove they have the higher moral ground.

@Morganfell, I used MLK and Malcolm X as examples albeit poor examples to
show how ridiculous recasting a race can be. I use the "Wild, wild west" as a perfect example of ALL THAT IS WRONG IN HOLLYWOOD. when demographic
models and political correctness are considered over the actual "art" of making a compelling and enjoyable movie.

As for Jamie Foxx, He is a fine actor, he went from being a comedy actor to serious roles almost seemlessly, Collateral was a very good movie and He was cast perfectly, as for Ray, He did a great job portraying Ray Charles. He fit, would you agree that actors fit roles and some do not fit roles?

What is so hard to understand? I would feel the same way if they cast Jet Lee as kain or Robin Williams, damn why isn't anybody sick of him yet!

@ikon, You are a follower and I dismiss you for your short and addled statements that lack any real information. At least Biggest was man enough to disagree and provide what he feels is wrong with my post. You, Sir are just a waste of space.

[-Ikon-]

Sounds like you have a Will Smith complex you should get that checked out

[-Ikon-]

I like how you are now backpedaling with edits and new post.

BRAVO

[treeson47]

in the end they should have cast jeremy irons as kane and if anyones seen the movie wonderland with val kilmer from 2003, tim blake nelson has a goatee and plays a hard character where he already resembles lynch. but ted levine would be able to pull off that psychotic look. please google these people if you don't know who they are before telling me jaime foxx is better suited. this kind of casting can only be attributed to them trying to reel in a wider audience for the film, which is how i understand hollywood works. but it's sad to see. and before you go calling me racist, i liked ray, and foxx in jarhead and collateral. he is talented. but he will never be lynch.

[Satoris]

to reply to you, I never backpedaled, that is what people who are afraid to be labeled "not politically correct" do. I think political correctness is what is wrong with this world, it stymies open conversation and turns people into those idiots that get uncomfortable asking for black coffee when they are in the vicinity of black people for fear they will be heard saying the word "black" for fear of them mishearing you.

-madpuppy

I cannot believe that you blocked me, I guess plugging your ears up is better than being schooled on how wrong you are. just for the record, I will never block anybody, Being a man, I would rather have a conversation and be corrected if I am wrong than to take the cowards way out.

[Active Reload]

I still don't agree with what you're saying and I see through your comments. You actually tried and probably succeeded at using the race card to bait someone. But then you go on to explain in your comment that it(race card) shouldn't be used. WTF? What's the point in that?

Thats really not my whole reason for disagreeing with you though. I disagree because you're using history lessons on well known events and trying to compare them to a video game character that has only been in existence, to the gaming community, for 3 maybe 4 years. Of course people aren't going to go for having a white MLK or anything else like that. The history of those ACTUAL people is well versed in world literature.

So yeah, using ACTUAL people to defend your perception of what Hollywood should do with FICTIONAL characters is silly.

And btw, I'm not trying to get a rise out of you. Anyway, you should relax, lol.

[Satoris]

And I stand by my comments, It has nothing to do with race and ALL to do with miscasting for the sake of profits, I understand that "Hollywood" is based on product and profit but, it is also based on art. A demographic model tells them to cast a black man in every action film to increase revenue by appealing to the Black demographic. The casting rarely fits, especially when you are casting for established characters.

To be honest "gettin' jiggy wit it" is reserved for actors and directors that cannot make a film without injecting modern slang and over the top behavior to a movie set in the old west or when one character is able by his presence to change the way a whole organization is effectively run for the past 40+ years.

The biggest offenders happen to be Will Smith films The Wild Wild West and the end of Men in Black (Men in Black was a very good film, Will Smith even acted well in the film but, seeing that the character was new and made just for him it is understandable, only in the end do they really go over the top and screw up the whole premise of the film, the effectively secretive nature of the MiB organization.
Think about the end of Men in Black, for 40 years the Men in black operate under the radar driving standard looking government issue ford LTD's and wearing regular black suites, until Will Smith becomes a "man in Black" he's gonna' shake things up "gangsta' " style with a lapelless nation of islam suit and a bling, bling-ified Mercedes Benz. Now, how did this one man change the way a whole secret government organization has been effectively operating for the past 40+ years?

and what is secret about driving around in a flashy car and wearing flashy suits? hell, I even think that the licence plate was "MiB"?!?!

That is a perfect example of how you can ruin the whole tenor of a story by adding something so far-fetched at the end to discount the main premise (secrecy of the organization).

This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with ruining a movie for the percieved increase in profit.

I will leave with a movie that was terrible because they injected modern colloquialisms and speech patterns into a movie by Heath Ledger, His portrayal as the Joker may have been phenomenal But, get a load of that abortion "First Knight". the whole thing was made to appeal to Airhead teen girls. could it have been better if it was played out like a standard period piece? who knows?

"dude, the knight needs his sword!" blah...

-madpuppy

[iceman06]

You pose some very interesting arguments about the use of Foxx as Lynch and I pretty much agree. I think that the established character should probably be left alone. But, you are missing something. There are probably a LOT more people that are unfamiliar with Kane and Lynch than are. Therefore, for them, it will be an entirely new experience and it won't really matter. This is Hollywood. I'll give the movie a chance just because I like action flicks. I doubt it was going to make a run for an Oscar anyway.
As for Will Smith, he is just acting. He didn't write this stuff. He didn't direct this stuff. He just accepted a script and did the movie. Don't hate him. Hate those that gave him a chance. For all of the fluff movies he does, he also does some incredibly powerful stuff. He transformed himself in Ali (though the movie was flawed his acting was excellent). He earned critical acclaim in Six Degrees of Separation (where he risked his career by playing a homosexual conman in his first major role). If you can deny that depth of his acting in The Pursuit of Happyness then I don't know what to say.
As for your arguments about being politically correct. I agree that it has stifled discussions amongst people of different backgrounds. However, it must also be pointed out that NOT being politically incorrect is not a license to just say what you want without impunity. I would agree that sometimes the "racist" or "bigot" tag is thrown about prematurely. But, to say that they are used by ignorant people to prove that they have a higher moral ground is a bit self serving. There are racists and bigots. This is not some fantasy dreamed up by minorities. There are people that are not active racist, but have ideologies and mentalities that are consistent with that of racism. They practice their racism in a more covert and passive way. I am NOT trying to say that this is YOU, I am just making the point that just because the race thing is thrown around so much doesn't mean that it is not a huge issue and those that face it don't have the right to call it out. You have the right to disagree of course.

[Deafman420]

Real people as an example for comparison and it's a terrible terrible comparison. Regardless, I applaud hollywood for casting Mr. Foxx for the movie. Though not yet perfectly, Hollywood does a better job in the diversity department than video games have done.

[orange-skittle]

you are a f*ckin' idiot! How is Will Smith playing Jim West(fictional character in a 1960's tv show) the same as Jim Carey or Robin Williams playing Martin Luther King Jr or Malcolm X(civil rights activists)? You sound like one of those racist jackasses that say "I'm not racist, some of my good friends are black." Your comparisons are so distorted, you actually believe the bullsh*t you speak. tell ya what, repeat what you just said to a black person and let me know how it went after they scrape your face from the concrete

@ morganfell

You're just as ignorant. I bet you didnt know Nick Fury was black and modeled after Samuel Jackson in Ultimate Nick Fury. Looks like we have a few Klan members in here. It was in the comic book and that's why they used it in the movie you jackoff.

Even though I don't agree with jamie Foxx in the movie, your racism shines through. Glad they found a way to expose you racists on here

[cyberwaffles]

wait, why does it say that i approved this?

[Hellsvacancy]

Its a dickhead move hirin Jamie Foxx, im not sayin i dont like him or hes a bad actor he just SHOULDNT b playin Lynch 4 obvious reasons!!!

[Blaze929]

Because he's black?

[kanetheking]

.

[-Ikon-]

Lol he cant act? Guess his Oscar is a phony one. Jamie Foxx is a funny comedian, good musician and a good actor. dont hate on the man.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Lynch isn't just white... His an long haired oldcoot. Maybe you don't like it, but pre stabilished character DO have a looking already in our minds. I'm not saying Jamie Foxx can't, or even shouldn't, act in this hole, but I can see why people don't like the casting. It's not a question os color alone, they could have casted Leonardo DiCaprio, it would still be an weird decision.

[treeson47]

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[kanetheking]

I forgot he done the ray charles moive.silly me =(

[frankymv]

I think the game is doomed to fail too.

[wumster]

But i bet you guys think it was ok to have a terrible white cast to play in the movie "The Last AirBender" when there should have been Asians in their place. Jamie Foxx is a great actor, just check his resume. But I don't agree with him playing in a movie that is doom to fail, regardless of his race. Don't damn him because he is African American playing a role that you don't think he should play.

[redDevil87]

why make a movie out of this POS series

[jay2]

What a joke, has anyone even seen the movie? no so let's wait and see.

[Chromer]

The movie is going to flop because the story is based off of a crappy game not because Jamie Foxx has been cast. As onto Will Smith, I seriously can't believe people are still hating on the Fresh Prince. The man has paid his dues in Hollywood and his numerous awards back him up. So what if he made some flops like Wild Wild West? The man can still make a blockbuster after all these years.

As for Morganfell, did you really try to pull out "Nick Fury is black; that's an example of using black people to garner an audience" argument? Are you serious? You realize that Nick Fury has been portrayed as both white and black in the Marvel comics and the only reason he is black in current movies is because Samuel L. Jackson approached Favreau and asked to be in the movie and the black version of Nick Fury is a comic version OF Samuel L. Jackson. You try to impress this view that because someone cast a black person in a role that they are destroying history and tarnishing culture?

Dude, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR BEHIND.

[TruEve]

There was black Green Lantern, named John Stewart as well. But Ryan Renolds is playing the original Alan Scott, I believe :). Which makes sense.

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You know, casting Jamie as Lynch is an unexpected and even strange move, but he is not bad actor by any means. He won best leading actor at the academy awards for his portrayal of Ray Charles! It's not like he can't adapt to play the role accordingly, but still, that's not a guarantee lol.

If this movie is going to be bad, I doubt it's because of Jamie Foxx...

[Satoris]

that would be weird and a waste, why not just make a movie based on the John Stewart character then?

IF in one of the alternate earths Peter Parker was Black, then cast a black actor to play that Peter Parker not Earth-616's Peter Parker, the original.

As for Nick Fury, the movies are apparently based on the marvel alternate earth-1610 where Nick Fury is black...and Sam Jackson is his template, which makes it even cooler.

-Madpuppy

[bobcostus]

Kane and Lynch had a very, very well written story. Sure, it had gameplay flaws, but the story was very solid.

[GameZenith]

Lol, so it isn't okay to see an African-American character play someone who was previously white? Yet Hollywood has beeing doing this for YEARS when they would cast white characters to play Native Americans, Egyptians, and even Persians but no white people complained about that.

Funny

[Baka-akaB]

actually i remember most people complaining about such casting , as with prince of persia and the last airbender .

And here there are a bit more prob than just racial miscast ... basically they are giving the role of a short badly ugly sob with a personality matching his looks , to another hollywood playboy .

I dont see how , as talented as foxx is , is it even remotely the same character

[Satoris]

It is now OK to do that?

If it was wrong in 20's to the early 70's to cast whites in ethnec roles why is the oppisote A-OK? Is there some sort of score card somewhere that makes it ok till the other miscast races are "even"??

chop logic

-madpuppy

[electricshadow]

I'm interested to see how this will work out. Is it an odd choice to cast Jamie Foxx for the character of Lynch? Sure. Is it a bad choice? That's debatable. Given the track record of movies based off of game, it probably won't be that good.

Jamie Foxx, in my opinion, is a pretty good actor, but something just doesn't fit right. And no, I'm not talking about him being black. It's just that he doesn't fit the character. But, who knows? This could be a good movie and Jamie Foxx could surprise us all. I enjoyed the first Kane and Lynch game and I'm looking forward to the second one. With that said, I'll probably go see this.

[Johnny_Cojones]

The reason this adaptation was worth doing at all was because of the appeal of the CHARACTERS.

I like Jamie Foxx. He's very talented. The movie may end up being very entertaining in it's own right. BUT, it will fail as an adaptation of the game's story. At best, it is INSPIRED by the game. The game itself was merely a Michael Mann style story starring two well developed characters, the better developed & more interesting of which was the character of Lynch.

Lynch is a very distinctive character, & has a very specific personality type.
Part of what made him so effective was his creepy redneck vibe. You look at him, & you immediately have a strong opinion about him.

If you believe that your race & appearance in general don't influence your personality & the way you are perceived, you're deluded.

Wasn't Ted Levine available? And probably at a much lower asking price. Which could have gone towards other aspects of the budget, like shooting in different locations across the globe.

And honestly, Bruce Willis wouldn't be my first choice as Kane.

Brian Bloom, who voiced the character, looks just like the character, & is definitely skilled enough to portray him on film, should've gotten cast.

Regarding Lynch, it's not about race itself so much as Jamie Foxx's physical appearance, including his race specific characteristics, completely excluding him from accurately portraying the character. I don't want Jeff Goldblum playing him, either.

[dorron]

Crappy game, crappy movie...or was it just the other side?

[darkvenom]

is an awesome actor but i would have chosen John Malkovich as Lynch,and Michael Ironside as Kane.

[Eiffel]

Hollywood doesn't understand how not to be politically correct.

[dionnysus]

i liked Jamie Foxx in Collateral and Miami Vice, but Kane should be play by someone else. of course, even if the part was recasted it doesn't mean the movie will be a hit, being that it's based on a video game

[dionnysus]

why does Hollywood keep thinking that it can make gold with video game movies? didn't 'The Prince of Persia' teach it anything?

[FwanK]

Kane & Lynch game sucked but it had a pretty decent story...

[WetN00dle69]

Jaime Fox as Lynch........WTF?!?!?!?!
He is indeed a great actor BUT i dont think he would make a good Lynch.

[big_silky]

Jamie Foxx isn't even that good. Watch Law Abiding Citizen, Gerard "this is sparta!!!!" Butler acts circles around him.

I'd say get Timothy Olyphant.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm...

[-Judge_Fudge]

no, if acually Foxx makes this movie more delicious

[ATi_Elite]

WOW!!

I like how the editor made you aware that F. Gary Gray was a "BLACK" director. I thought he was just a director.

Kane & Lynch was a sucky game and the only way this movie is gonna be good is if it is really really violent. I think Resident Evil has been the best game to movie so far.

Last time I checked Jamie Foxx has an OSCAR, you know that little award they give to great actors.

Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis "yippy cay yeh motherf*****"

F. Gary Gray has directed some great movies such as

Law Abiding Citizing
A man apart
the italian job
the negotiator
set it off
friday

P.S. go watch sons of anarchy if you want a white Kane & Lynch.

I would rather any two outta these three play the parts as they are ruthless and have played similar parts before.

Tom Sizemore
Kevin Gage
Danny Trejo