Now that homophobic comedian Kevin Hart has stepped down from hosting the Oscars and finished complaining about the conspiring gays who tried to take down his career, he’s apparently landed a role in an upcoming movie based on Monopoly.
Monopoly, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is quite possibly the world’s most popular board game. In it, players accumulate properties, utilities and wealth as they bankrupt their competitors. The game has been translated into over 103 languages and played by over one billion people in 114 countries.
(Quick sidenote: The game’s female creator invented it as a way to demonstrate how monopolies are bad, but everyone has seemingly ignored that lesson, preferring instead to laugh while fellow players mortgage their property just to afford rent.)
Anyway, the film itself is still under negotiation, but from the looks of it, it might end up being a black comedy. (Black as in skin color, not as in dark humor.) The slated director is Tim Story, director of the 2005 Fantastic Four superhero movie and its 2007 sequel. Story’s 11 other films have all predominantly featured black casts.
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Hart himself has appeared in four of Story’s comedies, including Ride Along, Think Like a Man and the sequels for both films.
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This is the second gig we’ve heard of Hart accepting since his homophobic Oscars kerfuffle. In case you missed it: In a 2014 standup routine, Hart said he didn’t want a gay son. The following year, Hart said he’d never play a gay character in a film. That same year, he appeared in the homophobic comedy Get Hard.
When he was announced as the host of the 2019 Oscars, Hart began deleting unearthed tweets in which he used anti-gay slurs. After initially refusing twice-over to apologize for the tweets, he later apologized and stepped down as the Oscars host only to turn around and complain to Ellen DeGeneres and Terri Gross about the easily-offended gays trying to destroy his career. Later on, he lectured the gay community about needing to let people change.
Despite the melodrama, Hart has remained a successful box office entertainer in his recent releases Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Night School and Central Intelligence.
But if the Monopoly film is anything like the apocalyptic sci-fi action war movie based on the game Battleship, you might wanna skip it. (Then again, it did star Rihanna.)
Here’s the 2012 trailer for the film Battleship, based on the Hasbro game of the same name.
Bob LaBlah
To be honest with you I’m almost on Kevin’s side. Those comments were five years ago and he did apologize. Enough is enough. The show needs a host and STILL hasn’t said who his replacement is. I am hoping (since no matter whom they chose to host the show its success will be a roll of the dice anyway) the producers are scouring the comedy clubs across the country and just take a chance on a total unknown.
jjose712
Stop repeating the same lie, he never apologized
Bob LaBlah
Yes he did. So there.
jjose712
No, he did not. He addressed the controversy but never apologized. In fact he seemed to not understand what was the fuss about it
TheMarc
Are you guys kidding me with this, Queerty??? Is this now the Kevin Hart News Network?? Who wants to hear more about him??!! I can give you a list of names of other people who have made anti-gay statements and you guys can just rotate on letting us know everything that’s going on with them too, ok? What’s Chik-Fil-A up to these days? James Woods? Westboro Baptist Church? The President? The Vice President? Phil Robertson? Kirk Cameron? 50 Cent?
Kangol
Queerty’s starting to troll its readers at this point. Kevin Hart never apologized, he’s not hosting the Oscars, he’s in a hit film now and has his fans, so Queerty, please move on. There are more than enough gay, bi, trans, queer, and LGBTQ-friendly actors out there to cover. Like, what’s Guillermo Diaz’s next role? What is Jody Foster about to star in next? What about Maria Bello, or Cynthia Nixon, or Kristen Stewart, or Jesse Tyler Ferguson, or Jussee Smollett, or Michelle Rodriguez, or Wanda Sykes, or Andrew Rannells, or Rosie O’Donnell, or Laverne Cox, or Carrie Brownstein, or Jim Parsons, etc. to name a few?
ike5280
So can people ever really grow as a person and learn? Labeling him as homophobic seems to take it a bit too far. We can expect everyone to understand something they know nothing about. He has since learned and says he has grown. Let’s see if he has damn.
Wicked Dickie
It must really sting for some of you to see that he’s not being hurt by your unwillingness to forgive?
MISTERJETT
my question is this: did Kevin apologize to his son for threatening bodily harm to the kid if he was gay?
Creamsicle
Kevin Hart’s time as a comic, turned comic actor is winding down already. Leave him be and he’ll be phased out just like everyone gets phased out.
I watched some of his stand up five years ago when he was blowing up. It was alright. I tend to prefer female comics, and Hart’s schtick is pretty repetitive.
Comics say outrageous things. That’s why people pay to watch them talk. Even if he’s genuinely homophobic, then just don’t go see his stand up or his movies. Vote with your feet if he sticks his foot in his mouth.
rbernard
Kevin who?
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