Nelson Peltz criticized Disney's 'woke' strategy, specifically casting doubt on Marvel's 'Black Panther' and 'The Marvels.'

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.

  • FuglyDuckEnglish
    18•9 months ago

    I for one don’t.

    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.)

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
      4•9 months ago

      More drama. more social commentary and less…pew pew and tinfoil bikinis.

      It has always been both. Often in the same film or show or book

    • Aniki 🌱🌿English
      3•9 months ago

      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.

      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        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.)

    • @foggy
      3•9 months ago

      Shit I’d even take another Twister at this point.