As the indefatigable 92-year-old superhero conjurer and Marvel Comics chairman emeritus sees it, fan backlash up until this point hasn’t so much been spurred on by racism as much as unyielding fealty to the source material. “They’re outraged not because of any personal prejudice,” Lee says. “They’re outraged because they hate to see any change made on a series and characters they had gotten familiar with. In Spider-Man, when they got a new actor, that bothered them, even though it was a white actor. I don’t think it had to do with racial prejudice as much as they don’t like things changed.”
He adds: “But I think they’re gonna get to love this character. So I’m not the least bit worried about it. I always tried to pepper these groups with as much racial diversity as possible because that’s the way the world is.”
Stan Lee weighs in on Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch in ‘Fantastic Four’
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I feel like if you really love the FF at its core, it’s hard to be against this movie because of the color of Johnny Storm’s skin. There are lots of other things that can go wrong that would be much more significant. As far as I’m concerned, if they’re able to nail the family dynamic and the general sense of these characters, I don’t care about the actors’ aesthetic details.
