Part of me wants to be hopeful, part of me just does not believe we're at a point in history where an organization like Disney can make good art.

Perlmutter was responsible for the good parts of the MCU. He wanted to focus on good storytelling. From here on out you can expect unabashedly preachy woke propaganda from Feige’s MCU.

I dunno who you get your info from, but Ike Perlmutter was acqui-hired from a toy company, constantly fought to fragment the heck out of MCU TV and movie properties, and chronically only cared about what would sell toys. His creative process was described by folks at Marvel Studio as "he just cares about what will make money." It was some solid great passion-for-storytelling on Perlmutter's part that led to recasting Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle, despite them not looking remotely similar, because (in Perlmutter's words) "black people look the same" -- causing a really jarring change to one of the most significant characters in Tony Stark's plotline (but with no attempt at explanation).

I don't think Ike Perlmutter is somehow the champion of good art against the forces of lazy pandering that you think he is. I think Ike Perlmutter _is_ the force of lazy pandering that constantly frustrated Marvel Studios' writers until he was finally kicked out back in 2015.

> "black people look the same"

Try providing a reference that doesn't say "reportedly" and pass the buck. Ditto the bit about him calling the three execs "the help".

> I dunno who you get your info from

From reading enough of the crappy sites that repeat the claim you posted and yet never point to anyone (even anonymous) willing to personally report it. The thing with false claims is that there is no disproof because there was no story until it was made up.

> Ike Perlmutter was acqui-hired from a toy company,

You make it sound like toy companies employ losers nobody else would want, and that he was just an employee there, and that Disney only kept him because he came with the building.

> chronically only cared about what would sell toys

He's thinking about what would make the most money in total, movies + toys.

> champion of good art against the forces of lazy pandering

Well, 'good art' is what fans want to buy and lazy pandering is just that.

Perlmutter reportedly said audiences wouldn't notice a replacement actor because "black people look the same," and was a major blocker to woman-led superhero movies because he thought they couldn't sell.

Wow, glad the She-hulk & Ms Marvel returns proved him wrong!

The MCU hasn’t been under Perlmutter’s control since 2015.

Hey, can you explain exactly what you mean by preachy woke propaganda with some specific examples?

Social and cultural advancement beyond where society was roughly when I entered adulthood.

Most on the nose description I've seen.

A lot of the "anti woke" brigade might want to try reading the source material, it was woke before that word was co-opted as a pejorative.

Brie Larsen's charecter being shoehorned in at the 11th hour is the most widely-cited example. But personally, the way the secret police (SHIELD) is cast in the most favourable terms possible is much worse. The political stance called 'Woke' is authoritarian despite pretending rebellion it's important to remember.

Different part of Marvel. From the article:

"Disney confirmed the move. Mr. Perlmutter, 80, was told by phone on Wednesday that Marvel Entertainment, a small division centered on consumer products and run separately from Marvel Studios..."

This isn't the movies/Studios division. More likely has to do with the relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game) and Marvel Snap.

> More likely has to do with the relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game)

That was really striking while the iron was luke warm. I'd gleefully followed Marvel up to Endgame, watching all my childhood geeky dreams come true, but by the time that game came out I was over it and didn't want to run around with knock-off versions of the characters I loved in loot box, live service hell.

It really felt like the game should have focused on different characters and storylines. After, what, a decade of the movies establishing the faces and voices of the characters we get a warmed over bunch of lookalikes and voice impersonators? Since its not realistic to get all the stars to come in and do voice lines for the game, lets look at what the B-team is doing while the mainline folks fight the big bad!

I like the idea of a B-Team, but let's take it all the way - open the game with a cinematic of Korg and Miek sitting on the couch, and then some Taika witty dialogue ending in him finding an old cartridge of some sort on the ground, and with a "oh, let's give this a go". We hear a click of the cartridge being seated, and the camera pans in to a TV glowing with the start screen "8-Bit Avenger's: the Game". No need for celebrity voices (beside Taika, he can show up for an afternoon), no need to make sure the actors all the look the same, just a licensed game that doesn't try to suck all the money out of the gamer, like the latest TMNT game.

Or something, anything other than weird waxworks copied of a plot line that tries to take itself seriously.

I like it!

> relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game) and Marvel Snap

Was Marvel Snap a failure? I saw it got talked about a lot, but the conversation didn't feel particularly organic.