Disney Board Foe Nelson Peltz Questions ‘Woke’ Marvel Films: ‘Why Do I Have to Have a Marvel [Movie] That’s All Women? Why Do I Need an All-Black Cast?’
The 81-year-old Peltz, who has admitted he “never claimed” to have experience in the media business, made the comments about “The Marvels” and “Black Panther” in a recent interview with the Financial Times. “Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked rhetorically. “Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”
“Black Panther” does not have an all-Black cast, nor does “The Marvels” have an all-female cast.
Because Disney/Marvel wants more women going to see MCU content. 2. Because it mostly takes place in Africa… And they want more black people going to see MCU content.
I thought this guy was a businessman. He should understand this stuff.
Born wealthy. Went to a prep school before heading off to Wharton, Trump's Alma Mater.
Also, while looking him out, found out he's Jewish. Wanna bet his supporters are gonna ignore that the next time they complain about Jewish influence in Hollywood?
I've never heard of the guy before today, but the only thing I know about him is that he's said sexist and racist things. How much additional history does one require?
All this ado about "woke" this and "woke" that by the snowflakes... Pathetic.
If Ridley Scott released Alien today snowflakes would have a complete meltdown—imagine that, a black man and two women (neither of whom look like teen anime waifus, the horror!) in a cast! And the roles were written as gender neutral, for crying out loud!
No... Alien is often used as an example of how to correctly make a strong female character. It's not through lazy writing of a Mary Sue character. Honestly, I think the problem is they don't really have good villains anymore that are a challenge for the hero. It's like they're afraid to show the main character having a weakness or a flaw to overcome.
Because "working" on a board might require about 10 hours a month of your time, if that. You attend a couple of meetings where people tell you what they are working on, and then approve or reject the decisions they have made. And then you make bank.
They should do what the comics did when there were complaints about not enough white people in Black Panther. Just start having Black Panther beat up the KKK.
I'm a PoC and I've never understood the complaint about historical European movies having all white casts. Tbh, I don't think it's a real thing, it's just a small minority of agitators who complain about it on Twitter. Lord of the Rings is my favorite movie series, and that's all white people and only three women lol.
It shouldn't be the only kinds of movies made. That's one issue. And alternative history like Bridgerton sounds fun, if they make it make sense, such as in Thor where Heimdall is black and the other guy is Asian, but they explain that they're aliens collected from a variety of planets and planes, and not actual Norse people.
What a fantastic development for the Misogynoir% Category! The run had gotten really stale of late what with so much attention being put on the Transphobia% Run and a lot of us thought that the run had basically been solved and there were no big time saves left to be found in the category. This might even change the routing for the run as a whole! What a time to be a part of the Misogynoir% Run community!
C'mon. lets get back real scifi. Like the OG Day the Earth Stood Still in style. More drama. more social commentary and less...pew pew and tinfoil bikinis. For anybody whose not seen it... the 1950's version is a social commentary on mutually assured destruction and is still poignantly relevant today. (Also, you know the whole-Flying Saucer-lands-on-the-lawn cliche? yup. that's this movie.)
There's so many series I have read recently that would make incredible space opera series perfect for streaming. It's like Hollywood is allergic to pumping out good stories with cheap production. Instead we have shit stories written by committee and approved for commercialism with blown out production that takes an entire year to complete 10 episodes instead of 30. We can't quite do cardboard sets and practical effects like the 80s but there's thousands of crews doing creative things on shoestring budgets.
Hoping they use the opportunity of dropping Majors abusive ass to pivot away from Kang and get the fun of the Infinity saga back. Not holding my breath but I would love at least one really good Fantastic 4 movie that crosses over with the rest of Marvel
It's been hit or miss, much like the Infinity Saga. The difference is saturation. They've made too many films and shows too quickly, and the bad ones lend credence to the complaints of bigots.
When bigots complained that Heimdall the White was portrayed by Idris Elba, they were told to shut the fuck up because the movie was good and Elba was great in it. When bigots complained that Black Panther would include a lesbian relationship, the studio cut the scenes and scrapped the storyline. The Ancient One, the Mandarin, Jeri Hogarth, black Dark Elves, Zendaya as MJ, all the way up to the first gay man in Endgame, people are always going to find something to be mad about. Motherfuckers complained when Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Nick Fury, and when the comics followed suit, the collective bunching of panties could have jump-started a nuclear reactor.
The only thing that matters is whether the movies are good or not. Some have been good, others have not. That was true before Endgame, and has continued to be true.
Because the next one is going to be Deadpool and Wolverine, and it's going to be a fuckton of fun. If that doesn't float your boat, skip it. Movie theaters have doors and ticket takers and sound dampening walls. It's a whole system designed to keep you from seeing a movie unless you really want to.
It's not like the MCU is preventing other movies from being made. Marvel Studios isn't choosing between making yet another Fantastic Four movie or an arthouse film. Disney makes Disney movies. Marvel makes Marvel movies for Disney.
I like to compare the demographics of a cast to the demographics of the pool of applicants. If there's a wild inconsistency, like an all-white cast in an area that is 30% white (NYC for example), chances are someone is actively filtering somewhere along the line.
You do not have to have anything. No one is forcing you to go to those movies and no one is forcing you to join Disney's board.
You may not like that there are Marvel movies lead by women or black people but too fucking bad. Especially the latter. Black Panther is a major cash cow.
Yeah, this guy's entitlement with the "why do I have to" line was pretty disgusting. Why do you have to have cartoon movies about mermaids? Oh right, maybe that movie wasn't made for you 81-year-old white dude!
Racist/misogynist dog whistlers going to dog whistle I suppose.
I watched "The man who knew too much" from the 50s yesterday. Doris Day might be the female role he likes. Obedient. Her husband tells her what to do, she is on a nervous breakdown constantly. Good times?
Black Panther is a significant contribution to black cinema (in its cultural significance, box office numbers, etc), but it is a single contribution to a long legacy of black cinema that didn’t start with Disney, and isn’t defined by a series of entertaining-but-insubstantial movies, or the current right wing myopia of the moment.
Ah, the next Ike Perlmutter. At least he wants "Marvels that are both", so seems to champion more transgender heroes. (I know transgender persons are not, or not always, both).