Report: Marvel Executive Fired For Not Sounding the Alarm on the Female-Centric Direction of the "Blade" Movie

Before getting to that, I want to address the three or four complainers who whine when I put up a Disney post.

Disney is -- or until recently, was -- the most important and powerful media propaganda machine in history. I don't know why some are attempting to nag me into not covering this story -- is it because Trump says the feud with Disney is "so unnecessary"? Is it because you want to tell us for the thousandth time you think that any media made after 1981 is silly? Is it possible that some of Disney's bots are infecting the comments? -- but I'm going to keep covering it, and I don't want to hear it for the twentieth time that you don't want to hear it.

You've made your point. We will have to agree to disagree, and you will have to disagree silently, because I am sick of your insipid Get Off Of My Old Lawn carping.

If you don't think that this kind of propaganda directed at children is worth covering...

... then maybe you should find a blog whose proprietor you are more aligned with.

Is your objection to talking about Disney that Disney makes media for children and you are an adult? I would think propaganda directed at children would be more objectionable than that directed at adults.

Yes, I'm covering Disney a lot lately. That's because there's a lot of news lately. If you bothered to read the posts instead of assuming, as you apparently do, that they consist of me evaluating the quality of the latest Ant-Man movie, you might realize that the biggest media company in the world is currently melting down due to incompetence and suicidal wokeness and waging culture war on its customers.

I think that's a story worth covering. A lot? Well, when there's a lot of news, yes. I've been covering Israel a lot lately, not just randomly, but because there's a lot of news out of Israel.

And likewise there is a lot of news about Disney's disarray.

I work here. I have to be here. You do not have to be here. So if you don't like a post, do us both a favor and fuck the fuck off for an hour while we discuss is. I don't want to hear for the millionth time that you haven't watched a movie since John Wayne.

This isn't about what fucking movies you don't like. I have not reviewed a Disney movie in five years. I was boycotting Star Wars before anyone else.

I don't watch these movies either, fucknuts. So you're not trumping me on the "who doesn't watch Disney more" front.

This is a business/culture/politics story, not about your need to tell us for the thousandth time that you don't watch superhero movies.

NONE OF US WATCH SUPERHERO MOVIES ANY LONGER, IDIOTS.

This is about a woke propaganda megacorporation and taking it down. Stop making this about you and your endless need to instruct us all on what you think is important.

By the way, I have no problem with the statement "I haven't watched a movie since 1975" or whatever. My problem is when this statement is used to try to shame other people for caring about what the fuck is going on with American media. And it's a super-gay self-brag about how Above It All the speaker is.

You may think American media is beneath your consideration. You are wrong. It is incubator, disseminator, and propagator for every sick and destructive idea that is currently destroying this country.

And I don't want to have to justify this obvious truth any longer. If you disagree, then simply remove yourself from the conversation.

You may think that constantly repeating "I think this is silly and you are silly for reporting on it" makes you sound tough, serious-minded, and manly. It doesn't. It makes you sound like a bitchy old woman complaining that the conversation has briefly turned from crocheting to macrame and she doesn't like this new direction at all.

You certainly are not required to be interested in this story. But you are required to allow other people to be interested it without the daily drumbeat of trying to shame me from covering it.

Incidentally, there is news on this topic literally every day lately, but I don't post every day. I let some stories build up over a couple of days and then publish about all of them at once --precisely so I don't hit the same subject matter every day.

And as I always tell people, my threads are always open threads. If you want to bring up another article or news item, have at it.

But I don't want to hear for the 5000th time about what your viewing preferences are. I got it the first 5000 times.

In sum, your Concerns About this site discussing Disney too much have been:

[X] Noted
[ ] Not Noted

And that's the end of that. Further bullshit along these lines will be met with timeouts and banning.

Now with that said -- now that they crochety cranks are all out fishing or whatever the fuck they tell us to do instead of wasting our time on Disney -- on to the Daily Disney Disaster.

The Fangs Are Female.

Bounding Into Comics repeats the reporting from Variety that the Blade script evolved into something featuring three female leads ahead of the titular lead, and was about "life lessons."

Reportedly, the executive overseeing that project has been fired for failing to sound the alarm.

Marvel Exec Behind 'Blade' Reportedly Fired Because "He Didn't Sound The Alarm" On Film's Abysmal Direction: "It's One Of The Few Times That Anyone Has Actually Ever Heard Kevin Feige Yell At Someone"

In a development which, if true, would be one of the most surprising things to come out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in recent memory, a new report has claimed that the Marvel executive responsible for their Blade reboot has been sacked for intentionally lying to studio boss Kevin Feige about just how truly disastrous the film was shaping up to be.

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Speaking to the topic of Blade during the November 1st episode of his and film critic John Rocha's The Hot Mic live show, [Jeff] Sneider informed his co-host that while he was unsure if Siegel's description of the film's current state was "100% accurate", he was aware that "the executive who is working on Blade basically tried to obscure what was going to be in this draft from [the film's writer] Stacy Osei-Kuffour."

"He either tried to intentionally obfuscate what the draft was going to entail," said Sneider. "Another source put it as he didn't sound the alarm on the process and what trouble the project was in."

To this end, the reporter then divulged, "And they've been, I'm told, that he was fired."

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He further detailed how, "My source said, and you know Marvel didn't comment on anything like this, but they said it's one of the few times that anyone has actually ever heard Kevin Feige yell at someone. That was the quote. We could change that to 'raised voice', but it was one of the few times that this individual had heard Kevin ever raise his voice."

Drawing his scoop to a close, Sneider asserted, "So the executive on Blade -- who I'm not going to name, you can maybe figure out who it is -- is no longer with Marvel. And that is confirmed."

Disney is currently being humiliated as the phrase "Put a chick in it and make her gay, and make it laaaame" is being repeated as a meme.

Which makes it all the funnier that they just dropped a trailer for their series "Echo."

Variety @Variety

Marvel released a trailer for "Echo," the first superhero series ever to center on a deaf and a Native American character.

Well now wait, don't sell her short, Variety. She's female -- put a chick in it -- and she's also an amputee, missing her lower left leg, in addition to being racially diverse.

Is she also gay? Well, we'll just have to see.

And is it lame? Well, yes, obviously.

Disney knows this movie is terrible so they're breaking their usual rule of releasing one episode per week and releasing this binge-style as Netflix does, so that critics only have a couple of days to talk about what a disaster it is.

The Marvel series "Echo" -- which debuted its inaugural trailer on Friday and premieres on Jan. 10 -- contains several firsts for the company. It's the first Marvel Studios production that will debut simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu..

Are they trying to drive Hulu's value down before the forced buy-out?

...the first that will have every episode available to binge at once and the first that will be rated TV-MA. And most importantly to director and executive producer Sydney Freeland ("Reservation Dogs"), it is the first superhero series ever to center on a deaf and a Native American character: Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), who made her debut in the 2021 series "Hawkeye."

"Representation was extremely important to myself and to everyone on the crew," Freeland said at a press event for the series in October, where she was joined by executive producer Brad Winderbaum (who's also head of streaming, television and animation at Marvel). But while the filmmakers said the show had Indigenous and deaf representation in front of and behind the camera, there were further efforts made to ensure a high level of authenticity during production.

Gina Carano blasts Disney again, saying that Bob Iger almost bought Twitter in 2016 to control the narrative, but then backed out when he realized that many "Twitter users" were bots.

She suggests he then got a great idea: Why spend billions to buy twitter when you can spend a couple of million putting together a bot army to control the narrative instead?

Gina Carano @ginacarano

Do you think this behavior of creating bots was exclusive to HBO/MAX or that maybe other major studios do this as well?

In 2016 Bob Iger said Disney was basically inches away from buying Twitter but pulled out of the deal at the last minute saying they did a little more research & said this about Twitter users, "We, at that point, estimated with some of Twitter's help that a substantial portion -- not a majority -- were not real."

What do you think that "substantial portion" of fake users grew to from 2016 to before Elon Musk took over X/Twitter in 2022? How big did the bot armies get? Who were the bot armies created by & to do what?

Why buy Twitter & deal with that headache when you can create armies of bots & control the narrative for much, much less money & energy. It does your promoting for you without making it look like you are promoting yourself, "Look, it's popular on all these accounts, strangely liked by a bunch of accounts with no names, it must be good."

But what if it was used for something much more sinister... These damn critical YouTubers have too many followers, they are gaining traction, let's censor them, on top of sending in the fake bot armies, just enough to get the yes men & useful idiots on board & rolling.

That leads to firing a person who thinks differently because they can't control their voice, need a reason to fire her? Get this hashtag trending, say she said something anti-Semitic, when she isn't at all, twist her words & hey, as long as it's in the headlines no one will ask any questions, it must be true.

I actually told them in an email & over the phone about these bot armies & how they start the negative narrative & then the young kids would join in not realizing they're being manipulated & then websites & small news jump on board to be cool with the kids & before you know it, you're trending & the Hollywood media devours it.
I told them I believed that is what was happening to me.

A manipulated mob being used everyday to spread propaganda to protect the most corrupt.

They didn't need to buy Twitter, they just needed to buy the narrative.

Why does everyone just laugh off the fact that when the suits do something wrong it's, "Oh how silly of those silly little harmless suits." Instead of the suits being forced to grovel & correct the wrong they do just like they demand so many others to. It's not like they don't know how to apologize, they wrote the playbook on fake apologies. They've literally destroyed careers & livelihoods & get sympathy pieces written on them while those whose lives got destroyed for just having an opinion, that was before its time, or made a mistake & hurt feelings, get destroyed.

This action of bot armies is actually a much bigger offense than people are realizing. How many lives were ruined because of twitter bots cancelling them? In defamation law suits you need to have evidence of intent to do harm. Defamation law suits are very tricky, especially when you're going up against someone with endless amounts of cash. I would say sending in bot armies to go after people they don't agree with more than qualifies as intent to harm & I believe a jury would agree.

Could get very interesting if ex or current employees came forward with more evidence.

Aren't you all sick of the abuse of power? You could sell your soul & still not end up in the 1% this benefits, & who wants to be in the 1% anyway when it means betraying humanity & selling your soul?

Don't pass this social credit score BS onto the next generation.
Artists throughout history are at their best when they're not in lockstep, it's what we love about them.

Independent creators, get busy & don't be compromised once you climb to the top.

Artists at the top, take your leashes off.

There is a lot of speculation that Gina Carano is ready to release the emails from Disney demanding that she stand for a Transgender Struggle Session, and more speculation that she's finally going to sue Disney for defamation.

Meanwhile, box office projections for The Marvels continue to fall.

The Marvels is expected to have a lower box office opening than anticipated, ranking below two of the DC Extended Universe's biggest failures.

The movie serves as a sequel to Captain Marvel, connecting the stories of Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan.

Current ticket presale numbers project an opening weekend of around $70 million, falling behind Eternals, Black Adam, and The Flash in terms of box office performance.

To counter that declining interest, Marvel put out the below... Catstream.

It's a livestream with cats.

No, this isn't a parody. They actually put up a livestream just showing cats for eight hours.

Disney's shareholder earnings call will take place on Wednesday, November 8 at around 4:30 ET. I'll be covering it, at least briefly, depending on whether there's real news or just more gauzy bullshit from Iger.

So for the people who don't want to read anything about Disney, I'm warning you in advance that there's going to be a post you'll want to avoid.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:25 PM

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