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-Great Cultural Revolution
Disney's Bob Iger Throws Black Female ‘Marvels' Director Under the Bus
2023-12-02
[Hollywood in Toto] Things are getting tough in The House of Mouse. *Chuckle*
Mouse House CEO blames film's failure on 'lack of supervision' for Nia DaCosta's title

Bob Iger is in damage-control mode. Again.

Disney’s past and present CEO is trying to repair the damage done to the iconic American company while explaining away the Mouse House’s recent failures.

It’s a tough mission even for a seasoned executive like Iger, and some of his proclamations leave more questions than answers.

Iger has vowed to "quiet" the company’s culture war measures and, more recently, downplay the studio’s left-leaning messages on screen. Meanwhile, he’s yanked advertising from X due to Elon Musk’s alleged anti-semitism, a false narrative pushed by the Left.

He’s also trying to explain why "The Marvels," part of the wildly popular MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) stumbled so badly at the box office last month.

To do so, he had to indirectly smear the film’s black female director, Nia DaCosta.

"The Marvels" is the first MCU film to be helmed by a black female director, period. Now, Iger is saying the "Candyman" reboot director needed extra help to make the movie better.

And it never arrived thanks to COVID-19.

"The Marvels was shot during COVID ... there wasn’t as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives [that are] really looking over what’s being done day after day after day."

Did DaCosta require "mansplaining" to get the MCU just right?

The director hasn’t taken kindly to criticism since "The Marvels" debuted. She blasted her critics in the cruelest ways possible.

"There are pockets where you go because you’re like, ’I’m a super fan. I want to exist in the space of just adoration — which includes civilized critique," she explains. "Then there are pockets that are really virulent and violent and racist — and sexist and homophobic and all those awful things. And I choose the side of the light. That’s the part of fandom I’m most attracted to."

"The Marvels" wasn’t the first time a relatively green director got the keys to a superhero kingdom. The recent "Spider-Man" films were directed by Jon Watts, whose biggest claim to fame prior to the web-slinger movies was the indie film "Cop Car" with Kevin Bacon.

The Russo brothers, who directed "Captain America: Winter Soldier" before tackling two "Avengers" blockbusters, also brought a modest resume to the gig.

Their 2006 comedy "You, Me and Dupree" hardly screamed, "hire them for the MCU!" It all worked out beautifully both for Disney’s MCU and Comic Con Nation.
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Posted by:Frank G

#11  Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-12-02 22:09  

#10  Wish, after 10 days in theaters is already a flop with weekday take averaging about $200 per theater.

The Marvels took about 20 days to crash to that approximate level. Last Thursday, they averaged under $100/theater.
Posted by: lord garth   2023-12-02 19:34  

#9  As of June 2023, 8 Disney flops costing almost a billion followed by Marvels and Wish. Multiple series flops. Sexual deviants in the parks. Interfering in state politics to the benefit of sexual deviants over children. The purpose is the destruction of Disney as an iconic global image of America for Americans and the world. Similar to destroying Southern heritage imagery, to destroy Southern identity. Who would be behind such a thing? Probably the same entity gaslighting conflicts across the globe to spread US capabilities too thin to react to a major attack on ally.
Posted by: Jefe101   2023-12-02 17:49  

#8  
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2023-12-02 15:52  

#7  Ah, thanks to the director's deeply thought out explanation of the fan base, I understand why her movie underperformed: they're all Nazis.
Posted by: Regular joe   2023-12-02 15:29  

#6  ...For what it's worth - Ms. DaCosta split from the movie as soon as it was decently possible to do so and was curiously unable to supervise any of the reshoots Disney demanded.

A director not doing reshoots on their own movie is, to put it gently, unusual. I've seen a couple of possible explanations for this - one is that she was actually the victim here of Disney meddling in the production and said that if they made their bed, they could lie in it.

The other is that she knew perfectly well what was going to happen when it opened, and wanted to distance herself from it as far as she possibly could.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-12-02 15:09  

#5  Iger has vowed to "quiet" the company’s culture war measures and, more recently, downplay the studio’s left-leaning messages on screen.

Too late. We know who you are and what you want to do. We won't be watching anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-12-02 12:18  

#4  A Covid fatality? Really?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-12-02 11:40  

#3  Wasn't the Marvels a '60's girl group?
Posted by: AlanC   2023-12-02 11:24  

#2  That’s the part of fandom I’m most attracted to.

As they say, your appeal became very very selective.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-02 10:47  

#1  Go woke, go broke.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-02 09:53  

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