Report: The Walt Disney Company and Marvel Studios To Educate Actors in Order To Placate Communist China
According to a new report, The Walt Disney Company will start educating its executives and actors in order to placate communist China and ensure future film releases in that country.
Jonathan Majors as Kang The Conqueror in Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA. Jay Maidment. © 2022 MARVEL.
The following report was prepared by The Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters and Alex Weprin as they covered an investor battle inside The Walt Disney Company pitting current CEO Bob Iger against former Marvel executive Ike Perlmutter and hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz, who wants a seat on Disney’s board.
Masters and Weprin claimed that the future Marvel films would not feature any Chinese villains in their report. “the talent will be well-schooled to watch their words.”
Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne/Wasp in Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA. Marvel Studios. Photo by courtesy. © 2022 MARVEL.
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This report comes after The Walt Disney Company’s official Chinese social media accounts announced that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Anti-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania secured theatrical releases in China.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Patrick Brzeski Published January 17th, “Marvel shared the surprise news Tuesday over its official Chinese social media accounts. The two titles will be the very first movies of Marvel’s Phase 4 to screen in China, as the last approved theatrical releases from the studio were Spider-Man: Far From Home and Avengers: Endgame, way back in early/mid-2019.”
(L-R): Danai Gurira as Okoye and Letitia Wright as Shuri in Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. Photo by Eli Adé. © 2022 MARVEL.
YouTuber Yellowflash commented upon this report by The Hollywood Reporter, indicating that Disney and Marvel stars will be taught to respect communist China. “What a loser move this is.”
He continued, “It’s always Disney that does this s**t. Disney’s always willing to step back. This is all about making as much money as possible. And,, you know, I would rather these companies not to do this and not bend the knee to this country because they don’t really like us.”
“And making our movies less patriotic or changing things to make China happy just seems kind of backwards to me. It seems kind of backwards,” He stated. “And other companies are moving forward saying, ‘We don’t really care that much.’ And then you’ve got Disney just salivating at the fact of censoring their own s**t so they could get it out in that country.”
“It seems kind of wrong, but Disney’s been morally bankrupt for a long time anyways. So I’m not really surprised,” He concluded.
(L-R): Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym, Evangeline Lilly as Hope Van Dyne/Wasp; Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne/Wasp in Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA. Marvel Studios. Photo by courtesy. © 2022 MARVEL.
Yellowflash also suggests that actors will behave in a similar way to John Cena when he apologized to the Chinese for referring to Taiwan during a promotional event. Fast & Furious 9.
Cena, a Taiwanese broadcaster network TVBS interviewed Cena to promote the film. “the first country to watch the film.”
Later, he would issue an apology in Mandarin to Weibo for calling Taiwan a country.
Justin Lin co-wrote and directed F9’s John Cena as Jakob.
Cena’s apology was shared to Twitter by Joe Xu.
John Cena, who called Taiwan a country in an interview for Fast & Furious 9, apologized in Chinese to Sina Weibo pic.twitter.com/dzRKIYgEzL
— Dr. Joe Yizhou Xu (@JoeXu) May 24, 2021
A translation of Cena’s apology was done by South China Morning Post. He said: “Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle of Fast & Furious 9 promotions. I’m doing a lot of interviews. I made a mistake in one of my interviews.”
Cena continued, “Everyone was asking me if I could use Chinese – [movie] staff gave me a lot of information, so there was a lot of interviews and information.”
“I made one mistake. I have to say something very, very, very important now. I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very sorry about my mistake,” Cena.
He apologized profusely, “I apologize, I apologize, I’m very sorry. You must understand that I really love, really respect China and the Chinese people. My apologies. See you.”
From left to right: Jakob (John Cena), Otto(Thue Ersted Rasmussen), and Lieutenant Sue (Martyn Forman) in F9, cowritten and directed Justin Lin.
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