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abduleez1:
They usually try to adopt West African accents or that of Nigeria. Also try to portray East African accent.

One of the very few films from Hollywood I will say nailed the accent thing to the core and believable was "Captain Phillips" starring Tom Hanks. It's also more believable when they try to use local dialect and not the forced African English accent.

oyaskii:
I saw that Amina had gutter ratings and i dipped but the trailer looked so good so i was left figuring what went wrong.

Our local producers that have the reach to carve into the Netflix/Hollywood niche as of now it's those with proper links like Ebony and Ebony will rather waste Netflix's money on flamboyance and razz with a sappy story line.

But the proper link up of our stories (such Usman Dan fodio, Jaja of Opobo, Oba Esigie, Sango, etc) with Netflix/Hollywood money, props and production will be too lit if it happens.

pu7pl3:
I would absolutely love to see an Amadioha movie with decent world building on the pantheon of gods in Igbo land.
Oh, and a nice plot too.

oyaskii:
But I still had them call Lagos "Lagus' in a tv series this year, there's a medical show i was seeing one time and they said "Gombe state" was in Eastern Nigeria fam.!

Nickshrapnel:
In their defense, that’s the Portuguese pronunciation so no biggie. But saying Gombe state is in eastern Nigeria is just plain stupid and lazy on their part.

oyaskii:
That was because they use actual Somalian actors.

Man Hollywood routinely culturally appropriate African culture because they know it will happen with little or no sticking backlash... what's the worst that could happen? Africans boycott the movie at the cinemas? Then you will ask yourself how many box office revenue earning do they get from Africa? But they dare not try misappropriate asians or even Arabs.

But I still had them call Lagos "Lagus' in a tv series this year, there's a medical show i was seeing one time and they said "Gombe state" was in Eastern Nigeria fam.!

pu7pl3:
I would absolutely love to see an Amadioha movie with decent world building on the pantheon of gods in Igbo land.
Oh, and a nice plot too.

oyaskii:
I saw that Amina had gutter ratings and i dipped but the trailer looked so good so i was left figuring what went wrong.

Our local producers that have the reach to carve into the Netflix/Hollywood niche as of now it's those with proper links like Ebony and Ebony will rather waste Netflix's money on flamboyance and razz with a sappy story line.

But the proper link up of our stories (such Usman Dan fodio, Jaja of Opobo, Oba Esigie, Sango, etc) with Netflix/Hollywood money, props and production will be too lit if it happens.

oyaskii:
Amadioha wielding a Mjölnir-like tool and ruling Arochukwu with fire, thunder and brimstone will be a fire plot and a thing of beauty fam...my joy will be on overload if they throw in an Amadioha and Sango showdown

abduleez1:
Fun fact: Black Panther's Dora Milaje are based off of these women military unit— The "Dahomey Amazons".

AnfieldFan:
The woman king should be based on them too... Battalions that couldn't even wield their rifles the right way, but fücked up male french soldiers during the second Franco-Dahomean war...

AnfieldFan:
French accounts remark that when the battles got too tough and became H2H, these women didn't go down easily....The French killed a lot of them though, for being the last solid holdout to Dahomey becoming a French Colony....

I don't think I will watch the Woman King ..

abduleez1:
Yea, Sony's epic is based on the Dahomey female warriors.

I'm hoping for a Carthage/Ethiopian adaptation of African warriors messing up the Roman army soon. Reason Ethiopia is probably the only country in the continent that wasn't and couldn't be COLONISED.

I need this movie to be a rousing success. A first of many honest African adaptations to come.

abduleez1:
The Benin Empire did a good job being the last major holdout for the region now Nigeria during the British Incursion. Britain finally won but not without getting a bloodied nose in Benin.
I will love a retelling but I hate the ending cos we lost.

Will be hoping to see the Walls of Benin too that was mostly destroyed by the Brits. It was famed to be the longest man made wall even rivalling The Walls of China.

Why won't you be watching?

oyaskii:
Amadioha wielding a Mjölnir-like tool and ruling Arochukwu with fire, thunder and brimstone will be a fire plot and a thing of beauty fam...my joy will be on overload if they throw in an Amadioha and Sango showdown

I prefer my Amadioha to channel his thunder and brimstone from himself with no tool .
An Amadioha Vs Sango showdown would be peak cinema tbh but that's like after 2 or 3 build up movies

abduleez1:
You're thinking in my line of thought. Although, I was musing about Sango, Oya, Yemoja, Oranmiyan, Oduduwa and co as well as other Yoruba/Benin influential characters.
American Gods did try with the African roots (Yemoja & Oya) but focused more on the overbeaten slave trade stroyline instead of the awesomeness of African deities.

Marvel have a Nigerian Superhero lying fallow that I'm waiting for when they decide to being her to live action, most especially now that Disney is trying to be the face of Wokeness.

AnfieldFan:
Which one, are you talking 16th century or more recent with Italy...

Anyways, Ethiopia would ridiculously be difficult to invade..
Fight off Sudanese war tribes, move weapons and logistics through the desert and then Ethiopia itself....

Ethiopia was a significant trade route through the Red Sea and saw a lot of trade with traders going via the Mediterranean..

There were a few skirmishes with the Romans but they knew better than to try and invade...

pu7pl3:
Her only hope is with this X-Men reboot but I doubt it cos Africa, Nigeria and Igbo are even less than after thoughts to Feige rn

AnfieldFan:
I'm talking strictly about the Dahomey women....
I won't be watching because it's tragic, something like this is better written prose style...
Make I come watch as French troops Wei get better rifles the kill our own Amazons(West Africa)...If they don't depict it this way, en go get K-leg because Dahomey was ultimately conquered...
It depends on what the story is, if it's more historical, I won't be seeing it...If it's more embellished and chosen to represent a particular time period(just to display their awesomeness), then I will see it, in a theater too...

AnfieldFan:
I'm talking strictly about the Dahomey women....
I won't be watching because it's tragic, something like this is better written prose style...
Make I come watch as French troops Wei get better rifles the kill our own Amazons(West Africa)...If they don't depict it this way, en go get K-leg because Dahomey was ultimately conquered...
It depends on what the story is, if it's more historical, I won't be seeing it...If it's more embellished and chosen to represent a particular time period(just to display their awesomeness), then I will see it, in a theater too...

pu7pl3:
You scared of shedding a tear or 2?

abduleez1:
Bro it's painful watching your people slain like chickens especially if they don't go out with a fight, ultimately losing their kingdom and colonised for ripe exploitation.

abduleez1:
I'm talking 15-16th century Ethiopians, mixed up Carthage Tunisians a bit.
The Romans did try to invade Ethiopia a few times and lost woefully. Read it was one major battle with the east Africans were thousands were lost made them give up on the region.
Also your point holds up, the desert, the logistics, the illness, the intense heat and possible dehydration. Ultimately, the region prolly didn't have a resource Rome was really interested in or riches as well as risky geography.

They'll have learnt their lesson in the failed dream of capturing Arabia and Persia during the glory days of Emperor Augustus.

pu7pl3:
You scared of shedding a tear or 2?

abduleez1:
Bro it's painful watching your people slain like chickens especially if they don't go out with a fight, ultimately losing their kingdom and colonised for ripe exploitation.

pu7pl3:
it's painful but it's also important to put it out there.
Would be really powerful.
Not just only emotionally but also as an exposé on how much we need to improve ourselves.

AnfieldFan:
Wait ooo, I've never read an account of Roman Invasion of Ethopia...Even Sudan wasn't captured....I know there must have been a few skirmishes(those times na real definition of street is military)but an actual invasion happening??
Share me a link bro...I d like this kind history

I've read a little about Amanirenas fighting Alexander but that is likely to be untrue, as they didn't reign the same time...