Why Marvel's films are imploding
Breitbart's John Nolte continues to tell how the Marvel movie franchise is proceeding to tank and sink away, which includes a remake of Blade filled with feminist propaganda that's been put on hold by manager Kevin Feige:
Nolte's got more to say here:
And 3 and a half hours? An awful lot of time to spend in the auditorium, no matter how you look at it.
The Disney Grooming Syndicate had originally planned to release Marvel’s reboot of Blade this year. You won’t believe the madness that has held it up. Actually, you will…I can hardly wait to hear of DC's plans to turn the Titans into woke nonsense "filled with life lessons" as well, because no doubt, given the chance, they'll go that route, and turn what once worked as an adventure tale in comics with well-scripted leading ladies into an absurd drama with little or no action, and whomever they see fit for marginalization will end up on the sidelines. Until, I may vaguely recall reading that the TV show from a number of years ago had a scene where Donna Troy asked Dick Grayson to have a conversation that "isn't gender specific". Which only hints something's wrong.
As we all know, Marvel’s biggest problem is that it is dying due to its affirmative action programs. Rather than making universal entertainment for a universal audience, a philosophy that led Marvel to gross $32 billion from 30 films in the pre-woke Iron Man era, Marvel is now obsessed with left-wing identity politics. While no one objects to women-led action films (Terminator 2, Aliens, Resident Evil), we do object to being told (again and again) that there’s something wrong with being a man, and that women, racial minorities, and homosexuals are virtuous simply because they are women, racial minorities, and homosexuals. Instead of creating fascinating characters, Marvel is pandering and propagandizing, and pandering and propagandizing makes for lousy storytelling.
Nevertheless, despite this glaring problem, in a lengthy, detailed piece examining Marvel’s downfall, the far-left Variety could only hint at it in this section [emphasis added]:
As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren’t working. Case in point: the “Blade” reboot. With Mahershala Ali signed on for the eponymous role of a vampire, things looked promising for a 2023 release date. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.
Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues, Feige went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of “Logan,” to start anew. Speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film, now slated for 2025, on a budget of less than $100 million — a deviation from Marvel’s big-spending strategy.
How broken is Disney/Marvel that double Oscar-winner Ali was signed on as Blade and the screenwriting process was still avowed to get so out of control, so enamored with identity politics, that a comic book movie about a vampire turned into “a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons” and Blade “relegated to the fourth lead”?
Nolte's got more to say here:
Naturally, Variety fails to focus on Marvel’s two biggest problems: 1) lousy movies and 2) movies made lousy by all the shallow and stupid propaganda surrounding leftwing identity politics. Those two problems have hurt Marvel in the worst possible way: losing audience trust and goodwill.And then, there's some eyebrow-raising news on Variety telling the Marvels director has abandoned her own film:
You see, that’s what made Marvel Marvel for ten years: audience goodwill. We trusted Marvel to deliver. We loved Iron Man, Thor (before an apron emasculated him), Black Panther, Hulk, Captain America, Star-Lord, Black Widow… Iconic and likable characters in movies determined to entertain. But then Kevin Feige decided he was Thanos, and there was something wrong with Marvel. So he snapped his fingers, killed off the characters we love, emasculated the others, and remade the Marvel Universe in his political image — which is full of affirmative action, lectures, shaming, gay sex, overbearing feminism, and no fun whatsoever.
Obviously, Variety would never have the moral courage to relay those truths, but Marvel is dealing with six other serious problems.
“The Marvels,” which opens in theaters on Nov. 10, will struggle to get the ball past the infield, at least by Marvel’s outsized standards. The movie, which cost $250 million and sees Brie Larson reprising her role as Captain Marvel, is tracking to open to $75 million-$80 million — far below the $185 million “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” took in domestically in its debut weekend last year.It most certainly is. Nolte responded with the following:
Directed by Nia DaCosta, “The Marvels” unites Larson’s heroine with two superpowered allies, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau (introduced in the 2021 Disney+ series “WandaVision”) and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan (first seen in the 2022 series “Ms. Marvel”). But instead of seamlessly building on the success of “Captain Marvel,” this move resulted in four weeks of reshoots to bring coherence to a tangled storyline.
Then eyebrows were raised again when DaCosta began working on another film while “The Marvels” was still in postproduction — the filmmaker moved to London earlier this year to begin prepping for her Tessa Thompson drama “Hedda.” (A representative for DaCosta declined to comment.)
“If you’re directing a $250 million movie, it’s kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go,” says a source familiar with the production.
If she walked off knowing she had to distance herself from a bad movie created by Feige’s interference, good for her.And since we're on the whole subject of Marvel adaptations, it reminds me that a certain once highly revered filmmaker who took issue with how comics adaptations were ruining everybody's perceptions of cinema as art seems to have succumbed to wokeness himself. Case in point: Martin Scorsese and his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon. As Nolte argues:
You don’t make a big deal out of hiring a black woman to make a Marvel movie, enjoy all the accolades that move wins you in the press, and then come along as the Powerful White Guy to erase her vision. This kind of tokenizing is maliciously unfair to DaCosta.
The problem, though, is that the movie stinks of woke. Evil Americans murdering Noble Indians; it smells of 3.5 hours of a history lesson where we Americans are told to be ashamed of ourselves. Flower Moon is based on a true story and a best-selling book. But the book tells the story from the FBI’s point of view. These murders went a long way toward establishing the FBI. But…Honestly, it's hard to fully credit the guy for making a case for the sake of the dramatic art he's been famous for in the past, if now, he's suddenly going to pander to the very PC mentality that's brought down a lot of modern movie fare in the past decade. Marvel and DC have both been wokefying their output at the movies, so why is Scorsese suddenly making the sake mistake? If he's that desperate to win Oscars, that's a big weakness. Award statues alone don't symbolize this is worth the effort, and certainly not when ceremonies like these have long become political branches catering to their own. So, you can't be surprised when in the end, the movie flounders at the box office. A shame, because this is history worth telling. But Scorsese's clearly no longer up to telling it without PC pandering involved.
In an obvious move to appease the Woke Gestapo in the Motion Picture Academy, Scorsese has gone out of his way to sell the idea that he chose to tell the story from the Osage Indian’s point of view. Me? I like that idea for two reasons: 1) I’ve never seen it before, and 2) I have no desire to see the evil FBI idealized. Nevertheless…
The whole thing gives off a whiff of a 3.5-hour scold, a 3.5-hour downer, 3.5 hours of a great director catering to the worst people in the world.
And 3 and a half hours? An awful lot of time to spend in the auditorium, no matter how you look at it.
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