Disney+ Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Iceberg_Taylor
THE FINAL BOSS
July 8, 2022 - BP2: WAKANDA FOREVER
Rainbowdildobuttmonkey
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Soul_Rattler
Active Member
Alot of people want M'Baku as Black Panther.
I don't. I respect him for not taking the herb. He's his own man with his own tribe. He'll fight for his country but he's not with the Black Panther tribe. Ba'ast ain't his god.
I don't. I respect him for not taking the herb. He's his own man with his own tribe. He'll fight for his country but he's not with the Black Panther tribe. Ba'ast ain't his god.
It most certainly has to be someone from the Panther tribe
ElijahPrice
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If Chadwick’s brother want the role of T’Challa to be recasted then I don’t see why they couldn’t move forward with the original script.
I’ve said it before but Chadwick knew the role was bigger than himself and he wouldn’t stop another black man from putting his own spin on it.
DC is already recasting Superman for the next movie, Sony rebooted Spider-Man once they made a deal with Disney and James Bond gets a new actor every couple of years. T’Challa should be treated with that same aspect.
What? What was the negative response to T'Challa from Hollywood?
And don't give me some random tweet from somebody with 12 followers.
And don't give me some random tweet from somebody with 12 followers.
" I see a narrative........I could be wrong"
You are.
This just someone looking to make headlines.
All respect to you and him but this might be the stupidest shit I read all week
But you know these keyboard activist bout to eat it up tho.
Even tho they DID show black men(plural) being kings and had plans for T'Chilla for the foreseeable future.
Soul_Rattler
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I listened to the video in full.
In context, he's saying Hollywood execs did not like that there was such an overwhelming positive response to BP. It's a fact that most major studios
1. do not believe black led film is profitable or sustainable
2. Are minimal risk takers creatively, hence why most content reminds you of something that just came out before it
3. Execs want all the credit and none of the blame
The success of BP broke the mold more than the movie itself did. It was supposed to be a moderate success at best that Black audiences wouldn't support and everyone forgot about weeks later. That didn't happen and Marvel proved a trillion dollar industry wrong. But unlike the movies, in real life, when you show someone the error of their ways, they don't suddenly repent and admit their wrongs. They double down and lobby to make their wrongs seem right and the right seem like a fluke.
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
lol Who gives a fuck what Chadwick's brother thinks? This is like Chapelle's "Ask Ja Rule." I'm going to go with the people making billion dollar movies over the guy who's biggest accomplish is being related to someone successful.
The Lonious Monk
Celestial Souljah
What is he basing that on? Have we seen any outcry about that? Hollywood is a business. If the execs think they can make a bunch of money off of portraying a black man as a king, they'll do it. Hollywood was casting black presidents before Obama came on the scene. That nigga is just making up shit.
Yea...but this is Marvel/Disney. I highly doubt they believed BP wouldn't be successful by the time his solo movie came out since he was already popular when he was first introduced in winter soldier. Theyre not banking on bringing something into the MCU that won't have any long lasting success.
I'm not sure where the negativity came from.
Civil War**
Soul_Rattler
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Here's one example off the top of my head.
Ike Perlmutter used to be over all of Marvel TV and film. He and Kevin Feige would butt heads over alot of potential projects because Feige wanted to do, Perlmutter would say no because he thought it cost too much or wouldn't be profitable. One of those projects was Black Panther. Then the head of Disney at the time, Bob Iger stepped in and restructured Marvel giving Feige free reign. Only then did we get movies like Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Check the time-line, even Civil War wouldn't have been what it was if Perlmutter was still in control. He didn't want to play ball with Sony if he couldn't buy Spiderman outright.
He only recently left Marvel but he's an Israeli born Hollywood exec. If you think he doesn't have friends in places who think the way he does, think again.
Some of what Boseman's brother said maybe theory, some may be conspiracy, but some is definitely routed in historical fact: white controlled infrastructure is not invested in equitable progress across racial lines. They literally burned Tulsa to the ground because the local economy was black controlled and lucrative despite it contributing to America's overall economy. They keep finding money for COVID stimulus checks and foreign reparations but for decades swear up and down there's no money for reparations to Black people.
I say all that to say, people won't always do what is profitable or what's right, even if it's right AND profitable.
Unfortunately this probably closer to the truth
That's Hollywood in general bruh
I could give you even more examples of predominantly white movies or TV shows that where passed over for one reason or another.
As far as the bold movies. Let's not act like a significant part of their success wasn't because of all the ground work and success of the movies before them. I bet that if Cap. Marvel or GOTG was the 2nd MCU film in phase 1 and not Hulk. They would've done the same mediocre numbers, if not worst.