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.
Black Panther made a comical amount of money. The “Woke” strategy clearly worked.
Yeah, but old racists don’t like seeing Black people on screen, and that’s what’s really matters, doncha know.
He’s clearly never even watched either movie, so his perception of them is probably based entirely on some far-right media interpretation he saw
“They literally whip white people and make them feel bad for what their ancestors did in that movie!”
That’s literally the plot of Iron Man 2.
Black panther worked though, it was a success because it was a good super hero and a good(ish) story.