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'Why do I need an all-Black cast?' Disney criticizes Peltz remarks

www.reuters.com /lifestyle/disney-criticizes-peltz-remarks-about-casting-black-panther-the-marvels-2024-03-23/

Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn't be on Disney's board.

Peltz, whose fight to join Disney as a director has become one of the year's most bitter and closely watched board battles, in an interview with the Financial Times said Disney's films have become too focused on delivering a message, and not enough on quality storytelling. He specifically took issue with "The Marvels" and "Black Panther."

“Why do I have to have a Marvel that’s all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that?" Peltz said in the interview, published on Friday. "Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”

Asked about Peltz's remarks, a Disney spokesperson responded: "This is exactly why Nelson Peltz shouldn't be anywhere near a creatively driven company."

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I don’t know much about Peltz but I kind of agree that you don’t NEED to have all black or all women cast. The art should dictate it. But on the flip side, having an all black or all women cast isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Representation in media may not matter to some, but it can make a big impact on others.

Furthermore, most of Africa is black. What were you expecting out of Black Panther????
I mean why wouldn't the cast of the Black Panther be mainly black? That's just weird that you wouldn't have it that way. Also Captain Marvel and Ms Marvel are both female characters I don't know what this guy is after here. Why would he pick those examples?
What all black cast is he talking about? And yes the marvels was all women but... They didn't even fucking gender swap the characters like Ghostbusters or something like that?

And out of all the fucking MCU it's the only movie with three female leads.

Edit- Jesus Christ I'm an idiot. It hit me. He's bitching that Black panther was about black people isn't he??
If you’re angry about the critical and financial success that is Black Panther, tells me you’re not an investor, just a racist idiot.
Nelson Peltz was born in 1942. Maybe in 10 more years we won't have to put up with nearly as much of this bullshit since most of these out of touch racist fucks will hopefully be dead by then
Nelson Peltz is corporate cancer. He specializes in fleecing investors. He’s a far-right piece of shit. Fuck him especially.
Fun story when they made that psycho Transformers movie with the laminated age of consent law and the product placement transformer made out of Oreo vending machines, Peltz's daughter is the teenager it's supposed to be legal to molest and Peltz was on the Oreo company board.
Not that I have anything against women

Ahh, the misogynist's "no homo."
The Disney philosophy, at this point, is that people who have been unrepresented for years will take issue towards efforts that are not strictly made with inclusivity in mind and those who have been represented will accept it as progress, then the small few who take issue with “wokeness” will watch it because “it’s Disney”

Their gamble is paying off because lets face it, 90% of the world with a TV screen has grown up with Disney.

So while you might disagree with Disney’s take on X, Y or Z, that fucking mouse is so engrained on us that we will accept whatever bullshit they put forward
Martin Freeman is not black. Park Seo-joon is not a woman. Samuel L Jackson is not a woman—motherfucker.
Why should I care about this? Do any of these people care about producing better entertainment that is not pandering or exploitative?
AGREED! Why should I use BLACK ACTORS just because the movie takes place in a country with MAJORITY Black People? And WHY on God's Green Earth should I cast WOMEN to play FEMALE Superheroes?
Neither of those casts were all anything, apart from human.
Ah, yes, the guy that forced his daughter to get a staring role in Avatar playing a 100% API role.
Why would you have a movie set in Africa have a nearly all black cast? He's seriously asking that? Apparently you don't need basic intelligence to be a billionaire. How often does he ask why shows like Billions or Succession have to be about white families?
Where the sex or amount of melanin someone has isn't a defining characteristic of the story, it just shouldn't matter if you swap genders or whatever assuming similar levels of acting ability. Disney I generally see as a corporate whore, but good on them for sticking to this. Fuck you peltz.
I don't care if it's all women or all black, I just don't want another Marvel movie. Ever.
"activist investor" yeah cool that's about all I needed to know
Imagine being an “activist investor”.
An investor should not care about anything but box office and whatever grift is going on with "Hollywood accounting". To be concerned with certain aspects of the content being prouduced is counterproductive, especially for investors
Yeah well, if you check the recent audience scores and opening weekend profits for their films, other people seem to agree with him.
blackwashing and sexism isnt creativity, but I wouldnt expect Disney to understand that
if you like any of these movies you're a baby

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