Marvel's Iron Fist Cast For Netflix Series, Report Says

Cool I guess. Can't make a call on this from what little I've seen of him on Game of Thrones.

As @rogueshadow pointed out in Official Iron Fist Thread this seems to random and out of nowhere for it not to be true. It's also pretty much exactly the same was Cox and Coulter got announced for DD and Cage.

Never seen him in anything, but since its Marvel I trust them

I CAN DIG IT!

HELL'S YES! DUDE! I can DIG IT ALSO LOL.

I'm on BOARD!!!!!

I DIGGLE I T

Okay, not enough of him in GoT to tell if he can pull it off but I have faith in Marvels Netflix people.

Never seen an episode of GoT. Hope they got the right guy. I was half hoping they kept the casting a secret and had him pop up in Daredevil or Luke Cage. Oh well.

I like him in GoT for for the limited amount of screen time he gets. I like this choice, if it's true.

I'm just glad he isn't Asian in favor to just please PC people instead of trying to get the character right. That being said not to sure about if the actor can pull off Danny, he's been fine on Game of Thrones but nothing on there ever struck me as "Hey this is the dude that should play Danny Rand." Given that for the most part Marvel's casting has been on point I'm gonna give them some leeway though and give them the benefit of the doubt that this guy can pull off the character.

SIT ON IT, TUMBLR!

looks like good casting can't say because I haven't seen him in anything but Marvel has done great so far so no reason to doubt. Just now have to listen to people complaining about them not casting an Asian person

Anyone else confused on why Neither Marvel nor the actor have said anything about it yet? The official twitter of all the marvel shows are pretty diligent when it comes to announcements. This might not be official yet.

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And considering the controversy it makes sense why they didn't announce him earlier.

@Feartheliving: 100% agreed !!! Thank god they didnt fold and change him.... im sure numerous people are butt hurt that they didnt change him as well

Lets see how this plays out.

Assuming this is true then this is actually pretty cool, if random, choice. He's good as Loras, with what little he does.

@sachmoo: It's not official yet

I bet he wished he had Iron Genitals.....

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome casting! I think he will do good. He's fine in GoT from the small role that he has.

and looks the part also!!!!

I'm glad they didn't make him Asian just for the sake of it.

Yess Luke and Danny team up!!!!!

~MiB

Niceeeeeeeee. This and Daredevil are my most hyped of the Netflix shows and superhero stuff in general. Nice to see that they didn't cast an Asian actor for the hell of it

Hmmmm, this article has lead me to feverishly search the internet for information on Finn Jones and I don't see anything pointing to a martial arts background. I can see he's been in a small handful of, what look like, terrible movies, but nothing particularly action oriented. Normally this would worry me BUT I'm sure they've got a plan. I mean it was kind of the same thing for Charlie Cox and he did plenty of great fight scenes in DD.

I don't watch GoT, what's his character like on that? Does he punch anyone? Maybe a kick or two?

I'm not sure about his acting because we didn't see enough of him. Not sure about his looks especially concerning his hair. Though I'm glad they didn't try to appease PC culture and stayed in line the character.

Eh he's fine as Loras on GoT, making Danny Rand asian american would've been an interesting dramatic choice. Screw the source material, it's license that you can do whatever you want with. And lawls at people complaing about PC culture and what not.

I'm Chinese American and I'm glad they didn't cast an Asian as Danny Rand. I prefer sticking to the source material as close as possible.

He plays a knight on GoT, but whether or not he has a history of being in things that require fighting is completely irrelevant to casting. That's what training is for. Charlie Cox wasn't known for anything more than getting killed in Boardwalk Empire, much less martial arts. Finn will do fine.

They got pissed at it nonetheless and callig boycott :P

LOL Sure lets make Blade white xD That is brilliant.

I don't know why this cry for diversity is considered so sacrosanct

@inquisitor_lavellan: Because when ever "make Blade white" comes up it is an utter misrepresentation of th argument. Blade and his ethnicity are linked very clearly where as Danny Randy is essentially one of many oritenalist sterotypes devloped because of a white dominated media aparatus. Danny Rand dosen't need to be a white guy (though you can make a case given his relationship with Luke Cage).

At least it's not another white guy named Chris.

Yay, I like this guy.

I trust Marvel's casting, even if it's worrying on paper that this guy hasn't really seemed to have an opportunity to show off his acting chops.

Also, I think casting Danny was a lose-lose situation from the start. If he's Asian there's a risk of the show possibly coming off as a stereotype, but if he's not then it's whitewashing.

Meh. But on the bright side he's white like he's supposed to be.

The Knight of Flowers? Ok I'm game...... Can't wait to see what this cat looks like doing kung-fu....

@mrmazz: Except people have been racebending characters for no excuse except muh representation, and people who disagree have been brushed off as bigots without necessarily being ones. You do realize that comes off as an massive stereotype that just because he is an martial artist he is NOT required to be Asian.

Perfect choice

I'm torn because as you said it could fit well and we are lacking minority representation. But the story is also already unique as it shows a white person out of place/as the minority in a dominant culture. Which is also very unexplored in mainstream culture.

(This is assuming he's in K'un Lun not New York for most of it).

I also read an interesting article saying that specifically race changing the martial arts hero would reinforce stereotypes. Not sure what my thoughts are on that.

I will wait and see

Lol at you caring so much about a white FICTIONAL character be race changed for whatever reason, PC included, when actual real life people/character representations are whitewashed for virtually the same reason :/

Sorry but what? When this has happened?

Now I wonder if the fight scenes will be choreographed with something from The Raid or if they might get Koichi Sakamoto (Power Rangers) to do the sequences. You need to check out his work in the movie Drive (not the one with Ryan Gosling)...A very underrated action movie.

Finn Jones will be a good choice as Rand, BTW.

Exodus: Gods and Kings and Gods of Egypt spring to mind pretty quickly, both of which feature a predominately white cast in the main roles despite being set in a place where the inhabitants were definitely not white. But, there's also Angelina Jolie playing a real life mixed woman, Emma Stone playing a mixed race woman, the whole Airbender movie and more. Whitewashing happens a lot more than people realize, but it's done so discreetly and passively that no one seems to notice. But, change a fictional white character black and everyone loses their minds lol then they start saying stuff like "how would you like it if blade was white" not understanding that, on top of my previously mentioned point, that a lot of the minority characters race plays a much larger role in their character than your average white one.

Please lets not pretend that any these examples you mentioned are somehow fine with the general public at large and didn't receive a blacklash on their own. A simple Google search on Gods of Egypt will show people were not fine with the racebending and if indications are correct, it will turn into a legit box-office bomb. The Airbender had a load of problems that went beyond white-washing, all of these are poor examples to show we are okay with characters being "whitened" and in case you didn't notice, my "Blade should be white" point was ironic clearly by the "xD" that followed.

When did I say they weren't? And you just picked the two most mainstream examples while ignoring the dozens of other examples of whitewashing that get literally no attention. You can look it up yourself. Uhhh yeah....I know you were being ironic...you were still trying to make a point of it though even though the two are not equivalent.

Casting an Asian guy as Danny Rand would have been offensive to Asian people, as it prolongs the stereotype that Asian actors are only in Hollywood to play martial arts characters.

I'm okay with this.

It's not whitewashing if the character has always been white...

@Feartheliving: Thank you!

That is because you only gave me three notable examples instead of mentioning the dozens that go by unnoticed and now you are bringing them up as a way to move up your goalposts. Besides telling me to look it up myself is seriously close to saying to "I don't have time to educate you".

Name me a white-washed movie that wasn't bashed by critics for changing minorities to white people in recent memory.

This.

Glad they kept him like he is in the comics, all this PC crap needs to end.

I literally said "and more" in one of my first posts. I don't have to list out every single instance for your convenience.

21 immediately springs to mind. I have this movie on DVD and I was amazed that the real life people were asian when I did some research on it. And, again, i'm not here to list them out for you. I provided examples, you chose to only review those examples instead of simply typing in "whitewashing". That's a quicker google search than "gods of egypt". So, if my example isn't good enough for you feel free to do a little research.