Angelina Jolie Character in "Wanted" is Black? Race Questions Raised

Here we go again.  Angelina Jolie was criticized in some corners for accepting the role of Mariane Pearl in A Might Heart.  "I know that people are frustrated at the lack of great roles [for people of color], but I think they’ve picked the wrong example here," Jolie said in answer to the criticism.  Now more may be coming her way.  Jolie will play the character of "Fox" in the film.  Her co-star is Morgan Freeman.

Angelina Jolie Character in "Wanted" is Black? Race Questions Raised

Here's where the controversy comes in.  According to Stereo Hyped the movie is based on a comic book series by a guy named Mark Millar.  And while this was all well and good some comic book-obsessed bloggers realized out that Fox was a black woman in the original comics.  Not again, Jolie.

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Latoya Peterson writes at Racialicious: Angelina Jolie has been tapped to play The Fox in a movie version of Mark Millar's "Wanted". Fox in the comics is a brown female play off of DC’s Catwoman. She’s sleek, she’s smooth, she’s a jewel thief and her ex-boyfriend is ‘The Detective’. But with Angelina Jolie playing her, she’ll no longer be a sistah.

She continues: "Main female villain is a Catwoman knock off dyed bronze named The Fox. Hot like fire and black, or at least Puerto Rican, right? Like a young Eartha Kitt. So how come Angelina Jolie has the part in the movie?"  Good question.  Will this controversy reach the heights of "A Mighty Heart?"