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TWISTED TALES; rapunzel
I realise there is actually the villain of the story – Mother Gothel, or the Enchantress, depending on your source material – but I couldn’t be bothered to cast her. I was far too enamoured by the couple. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Shay Mitchell as Rapunzel Michael B. Jordan as the Prince In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS; 13 going on 30
If you have any romcoms you want to see on this feature, let me know! I am always open to making more. Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Constance Wu as Jenna Rink and Kal Penn as Matt Flamhaff. “I want to see my best friend’s big sister, the girls from the soccer team, my next door neighbor, real women who are smart and pretty and happy to be who they are. These are the women to look up to.“
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TWISTED TALES || the little mermaid
As far as I know, in the original tale, the characters were never named, so I gave them the names they had in the animation. If this were ever a movie, I’d say it was a mix between the original tale and the animation, taking elements from both. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Feautring: Meagan Rath as Ariel Daniel Henney as Eric Octavia Spencer as Ursula Michelle Yeoh as Vanessa Oh, did not the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? and afterwards, when she stood at the open window looking up through the dark blue…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS || 27 dresses
I have started making these again because I didn’t want to fall behind on a feature I actually enjoy having on my blog. Still playing around with colouring and PSDs on Photoshop, but back at it and having fun! Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Gina Rodriguez as Jane Nichols and John Cho as Kevin Doyle. “So when the bride comes in and she makes her giant, grand entrance, I like to glance back at the poor bastard getting married. ‘Cause even though I think he’s an idiot for willingly entering into…
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TWISTED TALES || cinderella
As much as I love the recent movie because Lily James and Richard Madden are quite brilliant, I would love (another) diverse take on Cinderella. The 1997 musical version of it remains one of my favourites because the story is amazing, the music is wonderful, and the cast is just perfect. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Jessica Lucas as Cinderella Godfrey Gao as the Prince Melissa Ponzio as the Fairy Godmother Tia Carrere as the Stepmother She rose hastily, and flew away like a startled fawn. The prince attempted to follow her, but she was too…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS || how to lose a guy in 10 days
This is actually the last of my already made photosets, but I do have a few more planned that I am hoping to make in the next week or so. Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Lucy Liu as Andie Anderson and Oscar Isaac as Ben Barry. “You wanted to lose a guy in ten days, congratulations, you did it. You just lost him.”
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TWISTED TALES || beauty and the beast
Not going to lie, the reason I started this series of photosets was because the image of this particular Belle would not leave me. And, well, it spawned a lot of fancasts. Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring: Angel Coulby as Belle Sendhil Ramamurthy as the Beast Every evening Beast paid her a visit, and talked to her, during supper, very rationally, with plain good common sense, but never with what the world calls wit; and Beauty daily discovered some valuable qualifications in the monster, and seeing him often had so accustomed her to his deformity, that,…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS || stardust
I have a few of these planned, but haven’t made them yet, but this is one of my favourite fancasts. Without a doubt, I would kill for this movie to be made. Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring John Boyega as Tristan Thorn and Arden Cho as Yvaine. “My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange – no gifts. No goods.…
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TWISTED TALES || snow white
This is the first of the second of the two new features I am starting on my blog. These are not going to involve much preface, but as a recap: Twisted Tales is a series of photosets depicting POC fancasts of fairytales that are traditionally cast as not-POC. Featuring; Rinko Kikuchi as Snow White Ming Na Wen as the Queen Aldis Hodge as the Prince But hardly had she a bit of it in her mouth than she fell down dead. Then the Queen looked at her with a dreadful look, and laughed aloud and said, “White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony-wood! this time the dwarfs cannot…
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RACEBENT ROMCOMS || the princess bride
Last week, I wrote a blog post about starting two new features on my blog. These are not going to involve much preface, but as a recap: Racebent Romcoms has me taking existing Hollywood romantic comedies (and romances), and recasting them for the modern day with a more diverse cast. Featuring Tyler Posey as Westley and Keke Palmer as Buttercup. ‘Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.’