Nelson Peltz, the activist investor agitating to win two Disney board seats, criticized the company’s “woke” strategy — specifically questioning Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “The Marvels,” which featured Black and women leads, respectively.
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.
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.
I’m almost afraid they’ll try another remake of day the earth stood still after some screen writer sees it.
Keanu fucking Reeves pissed me off with that. The remake deserves the George Lucas Holiday Special Treatment™️
(Or the old TV British treatment. We can go with that.)