AND THEN BATMAN SHOUTED, GOTHAM CITY IS MAGA COUNTRY! Jeffrey Wright Slams Backlash to Him Playing Commissioner Gordon in ‘The Batman’ as ‘F–ing Racist and Stupid’: ‘It’s Absent All Logic.’

Ever since Lady Ghostbusters in 2016, Hollywood has attempted to gin up controversy by pitting fans against fans, and promoting inferior movies by screaming sexism! or racism! But in this case, there was no backlash to Wright playing Commissioner Gordon, nor was there any controversy over Wright playing Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies. The only controversy over Robert Pattinson’s The Batman that I saw was, as John Nolte wrote in 2022, we’ve seen all this, “Many Times Before.”

We’ve also seen Wright’s attempt to gin up controversy before, but in the past, it actually existed on social media: