“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[NekoFever]

On the one hand: Denzel's one of the greatest living actors of our time and Fuqua directing him has me instantly very interested.  On the other hand: the film industry continues it's recent obsession of anachronistically casting black actors as historical figures who are distinctly not black, which I am largely against in principle.

I have more problem with his age. He’ll be 70 next year and Hannibal was 28 when he crossed the Alps. What’s he going to do? Sit on an elephant and watch? Have him playing his actual age in a framing story while they creepily de-age him?

His race doesn’t bother me at all. Watch him playing a Scottish king in Joel Coen’s Macbeth from a couple of years ago