Diversity in movies should be achieved with new stories, not substituting actors.

You act like this isn't the biggest issue people have who are "triggered" by wokeness.

Also, this is a political post that does not belong on GD.

I think a real problem for writers is that ‘it’s all been done.’
I had an art professor I quite admired, I took acrylic, oil, drawing and watercolor painting classes from him and his wife. Lovely couple of people.
His name was Tom and he swore it has all been done, there is nothing new or exciting to create.

Maybe he was right so now Hollywood just remakes classic old films with a new spin.

The problem is, the nutty activists pushing this woke crap have no creativity at all. All they can think about is politics and "destroying white culture." Plus, they don't have a single original thought in their tiny minds. That, and the higher-level types among them knew a long time ago that they would never be able to market their political crap by itself. So they decided to not only destroy stories we had all loved in the past, but to also pull a bait-and-switch with the movies involved at the same time. They basically served movie-goers shit sandwiches with fake wrapping resembling the stories people had grown up with and loved for years.

It gets even worse. These idiots pursued a very stupid avenue of completely dumping the original, older audiences for specific franchises, just to pursue an audience that doesn't exist. They wanted tiny groups of young, stupid activists like themselves to watch, rather than the older crowd they hated, not realizing it's the older crowd that has the money and interest, not the fake "modern audiences" they were chasing. The target audiences have mostly not been interested, and are often broke.

And how did they respond when the target audiences didn't appear and the established one told them like it was? Instead of changing course and fixing the issue, they acted like a bunch of spoiled, entitled kids and launched an insult campaign, completely throwing the concept of marketing out the window. If any other business tried the same crap as Hollyweird, they would be filing Chapter 11 in less than 6 months. I guess for Hollyweird, it took 8 years instead, considering how much money they've lost to wokeness and how many studios had to be sold or merged with others to make ends meet. Even Disney isn't doing so great these days, and they were the ones with the most money and spearheading this crap.

You're telling me you don't want to see a black Superman, racist?

"but I applaud Hollywood for its efforts to be more diverse"

Why? How does "diversity" as a deliberate goal rather than a natural byproduct of certain stories/settings, improve a movie? It doesn't, obviously. In fact, it makes it worse, because anything that isn't organic to the story/setting, i.e., out of place, takes away from believability (verisimilitude).

First of all, the stories aren't all that different in reality either.
There's the additional element of a homophobic environment many of these people have to deal with, but other than that, queer people have love stories that sometimes work out, sometimes break up and all the rest of it, just like hetero couples have, there really isn't much of a difference.
Furthermore there are a lot of "new" stories, i.e. some movies mix homophobic reactions of the environment into an otherwise normal love story, which results in totally new storylines.
Then there are "coming of age" movies where characters first have to figure out who they are and what they want, where some characters experiment with the diversity but then figure out they prefer to be straight and others figure out being queer is right for them, which also is a totally new kind of stories.

Last but not least, as almost always, Hollywood isn't setting trends, they only follow the trends.
Up to a few years ago pretty much all Hollywood movies and series about queer people ended in disaster, there was even a very short saying among queer people about what Hollywood did, "kill the gay".
Then Hollywood went a bit softer and some of their movies didn't kill the gay people anymore but they still didn't give them a happy end, they broke them up in worst possible drama, as if they wanted to portrait queer relationships as always failing.

On the leading front of trend setting are independent productions, mostly low budget, with a weak storyline and amateurish actors, but they multiply on social media faster than you can keep track and they have produced so many stories with happy ends for queer people that even Hollywood couldn't ignore the success of these stories anymore.
Very recently increasing amounts of Hollywood movies with queer couples have a happy end.
Of course there are still stories without happy end, but in real life not all love stories have a happy end either, so for the representation they are getting pretty close to reality by now.

Looking at the replies it saddens me how people are no longer able to separate these ideas from government involvement. Of course once that enters the picture people retreat to their corners and discussion comes to a screeching halt.

To me this is about art, fairnness and historical accuracy. At the rate we are going nothing will remain as something than can be discussed independently on its own merit.

People are just annoyed with pandering. They call it wokeness but the real reason people hate a lot of stuff is the pandering from out of touch west coast people.

It's like that teacher you had in the late 80's who tried to be hip by using the words, "groovy, Far Out, and Radical."