The Point Man behaind Marvel Studios is Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter.
[QUOTE=FLEX HECTIC;334329]I have never written a Dear John letter so here goes...
Dear John... Boyega,
If you do get the role please do not let all those older actors like Downey Jr. punk you on the set. What this means is MAN-UP and don't let them pull a Dave Chapelle and try to entice you to wear a dress over some lame premise of you infiltrating AIM as a woman on behalf of all the other Avengers who are not required to wear a dress except of course Black Widow!
And... Put some bass in your voice so that you don't have to stick out your chest every time Hemsworth walks by you on the set!
Also... Read lots of Priest Black Panther and put those Roy Thomas and Maberry issues down there is nothing but pain for you if you use those as reference points!
Last but not least... Stand up hard for the role and don't just accept any ole script where you end up getting so shamed that you need therapy afterwards because they played you son!
Sincerely Yours
Point Man
P.S. Dayum you Chiwetel start tweeting beyotch before I come see about you... If this young man gets played I'm blaming you! Lol
Chiwetel Ejiofor Tweet...
@ChewyEdge
"Chilling in South Africa keeping it real with some hot Doras and whatnot... Peace!"[/QUOTE]
What up [B]Flex[/B]!
I like your attempt to envision how a Black Panther franchise can be realized through the BUSINESS side of this Superhero SHOW.
Apparently Mr. Isaac Perlmutter is the person one would have to convince that a Black Panther film would be profitable.
Check out this article from "The Hollywood Reporter" entitled "How Marvel Became the Envy (and Scourge) of Hollywood" by Kim Masters.
[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-marvel-became-envy-scourge-720363[/url]
It's an amazing article.
[QUOTE]"To the extent Marvel has a public face — and it controls media access as carefully as it controls everything else — it is [Kevin] Feige. But even though Perlmutter sold the company to Disney for $4 billion in 2009, he retains an iron-man grip on Marvel's operations and influences Disney's decisions on licensing, film-studio management and potentially even the looming question of CEO Robert Iger's successor (he is said to favor Disney CFO Jay Rasulo over Thomas Staggs, who leads the parks division)."[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, I think it is no coincidence we are only HOPING BP is on the back-burner as opposed to having a definite release date.
[QUOTE]Perlmutter apparently has caused internal headaches for Disney. In 2012, the Financial Times reported that three female African-American executives in the licensing division were seeking settlements because they allegedly were offered lesser jobs following a reorganization. The British paper reported that Perlmutter berated the unit's CFO, Anne Gates, because she balked at his insistence on using Marvel's format for spreadsheets. Jessica Dunne, then-head of global product licensing, reportedly complained she felt threatened when Perlmutter, a registered gun owner, told her he had a bullet with her name on it. (A source familiar with the accusations claims the women were disgruntled after being passed over for promotion.)
And according to the FT, when Marvel replaced Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2 to save money, Perlmutter was alleged to have told colleagues that no one would notice because both actors are black. Disney declined comment on how the personnel issue was resolved or the alleged remark, but Marvel issued a statement that read in part, "Mr. Perlmutter and all of Marvel have a long record of diversity in the workplace and on movie sets around the world, as evidenced by both Mr. Perlmutter's own history and Marvel's management team."[/QUOTE]
That is shades of Donald Sterling type stuff.
I believe there will eventually be a Black Panther film. What kind of film, both production budget wise and narratively I'm intrigued to see.
Excelsior!
Daoud