Monday, July 30, 2012

I call Bullshit on Marvel

So during Comic Con, Marvel announced the new movies that are either filming now, about to start filming, or in post production. The movies are Iron Man 3, Captain America 2 (hopefully featuring Falcon), Thor 2, Ant Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy. When the Co-President of Marvel Was asked by MTV about the potential of a black panther movie this is what he said:

"He has a lot of the same characteristics of a Captain America: great character, good values... But it's a little more difficult, maybe, creating [a world like Wakanda]. It's always easier basing it here. For instance, 'Iron Man 3' is rooted right here in Los Angeles and New York. When you bring in other worlds, you're always faced with those difficulties."

So Making Asgard with the Rainbow Bridge for Thor is easy, making a movie about guardians in space that feature a fuckin raccoon (where most people prolly know him from a video game) is easy. But when it comes to doing a movie for The First Black Mainstream Superhero, and King of an African Country that is far more Advanced than America is hard?

So if Wakanda Was what Most Americans believe is which is savage would it be better for Marvel to do the film? Or is it because Marvel and the rest of white Hollywood is scared to do it because there are NO MAJOR WHITE LEADS IN BLACK PANTHER. Is it because the Black Panther Movie would mostly be Black People that they don't know how to pitch it? As someone who has been dying for an Actual Black Panther movie I feel disrespected from Marvel. You assholes decided to do a movie featuring a fucking raccoon over T'Challa? You decided to do a movie of a super hero that beats his woman over T'Challa? FUCK YOU MARVEL

3 comments:

  1. I agree with your take on why they're not bringing forth a Black Panther movie (some similar reasons may not come up with a Luke Cage movie). But as far as Pym (which I don't think should be called something as campy as "Ant-Man" since that wasn't all he was), he wasn't a career domestic abuser, he swung on her when he was losing it. Spider-Man did the same thing to Mary Jane Watson in a sense, but he doesn't get the "woman beater" tag. Rather unfair. Of course nowhere near as unfair as classic "anything not white enough isn't marketable" Hollywood racism

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  2. And Marvel forgets who started the current generation of blockbuster superhero movies for them. A black dude named Blade.

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  3. At Kennedy I completely agree with you... And Soul brother I ain't know about spider man beating Mary Jane

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