This is "troll casting"

I wish a based troll producer with guts would do the Nelson Mandela story starring Ian McKellen as Mandela.

It is not a troll, it is essentially a form of colonization by the CRT/identity politics types. They take any existing prominent figure or piece of entertainment and twist it to suit their agenda and normalize it in the culture.

Well, they're being racist by putting the worst possible person (other than a drag queen) into the role of a woman who was said to be a white, northern European with slightly dusky skin, black hair, black eyes. Trust me, it's gonna flop just as bad as Hamilton did the moment the peasants got to watch that shit on Disney+

I wish it was, but it seems they seriously want to see how far they can take things. It's easy, when people call out the absurdity of it, they just have to scream "racism!" and the media will have their back as well.