So lads there might be a new Middle Eastern vibe kino on the way

So lads there might be a new Middle Eastern vibe kino on the way.

Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni recently agreed to write the script for a biopic of Rumi. Although he said it was too early to begin casting, he would like Leonardo DiCaprio to play Rumi, and Robert Downey Jr. to star as Shams of Tabriz, the spiritual instructor of Rumi.
The news was not taken well by users on social media. Using the hashtag #RumiWasn'tWhite many criticized the preference of casting a white actor. Iranian artist Shahab Jafarnejad drew a cartoon depicting Leonardo DiCaprio as Rumi which quickly became popular.
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>So lads there might be a new Middle Eastern vibe kino on the way.

Remember when the comeback of biblical epics was supposed to be a thing?

noah and exodus were both failures because of whitewashing. it has to stop. leo cant be allowed to get away with this.

>At least it's DiCaprio, not Sacha Baron-Cohen

>Leonardo DiCaprio to play Rumi
absolutely haram

>MUH RUMI
expect SJWs to fall in love with this

>Non white wants a white rumi
>Whites: NOOO YOU CANT DO THAT
i fucking hate this racist lefty parent/child dynamic they try to use with minorities.

Persians are white anyway, what gives.
My family is iranian and we all just look like Italian-Americans, except even whiter sometimes.

Say this to Sup Forums and become immortalized.

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Why? He said he's Persian and not le 56% face

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To be fair rumi did not look white at all, so why have a white guys playing him. In all his portraits, he's brown

Because we don't have a top bill brown actor that could look the part and drive the already elusive ME audiences.

Stop bullshitting mate, just because a small minority of Iranians look white doesn't mean all of them are. The average Iranian looks like a Turk or Saudi. Plus Italians aren't white either way

not really, Italian in the north are white, the south may appear shitskinned, but definitely not as shitskinned as the Turks or Saudi

>Italian in the north

You mean austrians, that people don't even eat pasta.

yeah they re white

>[f]ersians have convinced people Rumi was a [f]ersian

will he finally get his oscar?

nah he was white just tanned by the sun just like egyptians

No they weren't. Average movie goers don't really care who acts the part in a biblical as long as they movies are appealing and cater to those who actually are interested in watching them.

Bot Noah and Exodus had very off-putting trailers. They tried to be Biblical epics, but didn't really feel like the classic epics. Noah especially looked like it was meant as an insult if you happened to be an actual believer.

Hollywood should keep its nasty ass fingers off any historical topic much less one about Rumi

Hollywood doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

literally this. I havent met a saudi like persian in my life.

Who the fuck is Rumi?

He was a very famous Persian poet user. He wrote love poetry and is held in high esteem in Iran.

I want RDj as Shams in his Tropic thunder get up.

Persian people are generally quite light-skinned. Obviously the roles should ideally go to Persian actors, but I could easily see RDJ and Leo as Persians.

Like, if you didn't know who any of these people were, would you be able to tell which ones were Persian?

It won't be kino if hollywood is involved, this is the kinda movie that only David Lean could get away with as a westernized version