Disney Investor Nelson Peltz on “Woke” MCU: “Why Do I Have to Have a Marvel [Movie] That’s All Women?”
Nelson Peltz investor aiming to win two Disney board seats recently found himself in hot water after he made several comments aimed toward Disney’s “woke” strategy, aiming to include women and minorities in the movies more.
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, 81-year-old businessman Peltz, who lacks experience in the media industry, questioned the need for films like ‘The Marvels’ and ‘Black Panther’ to have all-female or all-Black casts. Peltz rhetorically asked why such movies couldn’t feature both genders and diverse casts, expressing his opinion against the necessity of exclusively female or Black-led Marvel films.
Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women? 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?
‘The Marvels’ doesn’t have an all-female cast, and ‘Black Panther’ doesn’t have an all-black cast, but Peltz is not the only one who noticed the change of direction in the entertainment industry in recent years. Due to Marvel Studios’ focus on female-led projects, some fans started using derogatory terms to refer to MCU as “M-SHE-U.” Part of the mockery has been also targeted at the ‘Star Wars’ franchise, one more franchise under the control of Disney.
There’s also the other side of the story however, as recently, female-led projects such as ‘Madame Web’ and ‘The Marvels’ saw historically low box office results, which prompted some media outlets to wage war on misogyny in the entertainment industry, calling fans to “do better.” The stats for ‘The Marvels’ however showed that the vast majority of the audience were males.
Female-led superhero movies are nothing new, and such projects have also seen historical success the most recent examples being DCEU’s ‘Wonder Woman’ and MCU’s ‘Captain Marvel’ both movies considered critical and box office success, with ‘Captain Marvel’ grossing over $1.1 Billion.
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It’s the Concept of : well we “allowed ” you one representative , movie is that enough of a representation .. think of it this way.. when President Ronald Reagan addressed the native indigenous Tribes peoples and our nations .
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* “Let me tell you just a little something about the American Indian in our land. We have provided millions of acres of land for what are called preservations – or reservations, I should say. They, from the beginning, announced that they wanted to maintain their way of life, as they had always lived there in the desert and the plains and so forth. And we set up these reservations so they could, and have a Bureau of Indian Affairs to help take care of them. At the same time, we provide education for them – schools on the reservations. And they’re free also to leave the reservations and be American citizens among the rest of us, and many do. Some still prefer, however, that way – that early way of life. And we’ve done everything we can to meet their demands as to how they want to live. Maybe we made a mistake. Maybe we should not have humored them in that wanting to stay in that kind of primitive lifestyle. Maybe we should have said, no, come join us; be citizens along with the rest of us.”
-Ronald Reagan
To be fair, Captain Marvel grossed over $1B because it was required viewing before watching Avengers Endgame. If it was released after Endgame, it might have not made over $1B.
Disney was strategic about when they released Ant-Man 2 and Captain Marvel. After the Infinity War story arc ended, everything else released after that has made considerably less money with exception to Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man was riding on the coattails of Endgame. It also helped that he’s a hugely popular character, and the movie brought back some beloved actors/characters. I don’t believe anything else after that has grossed over $1B.
It didn’t, and you are correct for the most part, the movie would never grossed as much if the release didn’t coincide with ‘Endgame.’ Speaking as someone who liked the first movie….
I think I’ve watched Captain Marvel only the one time since it’s release. I’ve watched Spider-Man: NWH, Dr. Strange 2, and Black Widow a few times. Every other Marvel movie released after Endgame I’ve only watched once.
Most of the movies released after Endgame didn’t really serve a purpose IMO. They were just solo movies that might’ve had some elements tying it to the MCU, like Wong in Shang-Chi. There really hasn’t been any build up to the next story arc or villain except for in Ant-Man 3, and that was horrible.
Kevin Feige’s did well with Marvel, but I think it might be time for him to step down and bring in a new voice with some fresh ideas. The direction the MCU is currently heading in is a complete mess. There are way too many lesser known characters being developed, and it doesn’t seem like fans care. If they lose the diehard Marvel fans, then they’re in trouble. The casual Marvel fanbase isn’t big enough and they won’t spend nearly as much on movies and merch.
As far as Captain Marvel movies goes, the only one I want to see now is one involving Rogue stealing her powers and how she meets up with Gambit and the rest of the X-Men.
Typical elitists telling fans they’re bad for not liking the crap they’re trying to force down our throats. Instead of calling for the writers to ‘do better’, they blame the fans. Well, that’s fine. Keep bombing at the box office. You won’t guilt me into liking woke nonsense.
Nothing was ever “force down your throat” such a c–p response as if you didn’t choose to go.
Have to have?
Love the line. “Fans (males) need to do more” why? How bout, Disney/marvel. You need to give us what we want to see. Stop trying to CHANGE us. You wanna keep losing money, and closing down historic franchises. Than by all means. Listen to the idiots with an AGENDA. Or listen to the fans, the ones who SPEND money and make a movie possible.
2nd, he is a PRODUCER. Without him, no all girl films get made. So, feel free to insult him. He can do business with any studio. Dumb article, written by agenda positive dip$^*t.
The best part was the acknowledgment that the audience was still in fact predominantly male. We see the same issue people take with ratings for women’s sports. They are much lower than men’s sports but the audience is still mostly men, but nobody criticizes women for not watching.
I’m pleased to hear that you put that stat in there that the majority of “Madam Web” audience was male, which means this movie failure is the result of a lack of women coming out to support a film made for them. Calling out men for killing the film shows how quick women are to blame their woes on men…. nothing new