New Twitter Account Mocks Roland Emmerich for Cinematic Whitewashing

Director Roland Emmerich has been accused of “whitewashing” Stonewall by making its lead character a straight(ish) white man (inspiring a boycott), and a stand-in for, well, himself (read our film critic Nathaniel Rogers’ review here).

“As a director you have to put yourself in your movies, and I’m white and gay,” Emmerich told Buzzfeed this week.

A new Twitter account called @RolandMovies mocks Emmerich for his alleged whitewashing, presenting hypothetical films as cast by the Stonewall helmer.

The films, presented as individual tweets, present movies like Tutti Frutti: The Little Richard Story starring Neil Patrick Harris, Cassius, The Muhammad Ali Story starring Ryan Gosling, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Kunta Kinte in Roots: Rebooted.

Nick Jonas as Bayard Rustin, Anne Hathaway as Rosa Parks, Tom Hanks as Barack Obama, and the Jackson 5 story starring The Osmonds, below.

"MLK led a nation to freedom. Meet the gay man who led MLK to…himself" Nick Jonas is Bayard Rustin BROTHER OUTSIDER pic.twitter.com/on7SjSSLkR

— Roland Emmerich (@RolandMovies) September 25, 2015

"It took one woman sitting down to make a nation stand up" ROSA: The Movie, dir. Roland Emmerich (Stonewall, Moon 44) pic.twitter.com/MM3ZcOTYYF

— Roland Emmerich (@RolandMovies) September 23, 2015

?? THE AUDACITY OF HOPE ?? In theaters February 2016 dir. Roland Emmerich (Stonewall, The Patriot) #yeshedid pic.twitter.com/tbbk5naoHd

— Roland Emmerich (@RolandMovies) September 24, 2015

preview… in theaters 2017! ??GARY, INDIANA: The Jackson 5 Story, dir. Roland Emmerich (Stonewall, 2012) #canyoufeelit pic.twitter.com/LSB6XFqiWB

— Roland Emmerich (@RolandMovies) September 23, 2015

this fall, Pam St Clement stars in CAGED BIRD: The Maya Angelou Story ?? dir: Roland Emmerich (Stonewall, 10,000 BC) pic.twitter.com/tYTIRaOAn1

— Roland Emmerich (@RolandMovies) September 23, 2015

(h/t papermag)