Disney CEO Bob Iger and director Martin Scorsese will be meeting in the near future to discuss the Marvel controversy.
Back in October, Martin Scorsese was discussing his general distaste for Marvel films, which then seemed to catastrophically blow out of proportions. What began as a comment by Martin Scorsese, later turned into a full on cultural conversation, which ended in Disney CEO Bob Iger calling his comments over Marvel films rude and cruel. It even got to the point where Martin Scorsese penned an op-ed to set the record straight that Marvel movies are just not what he wants out of the movie business.
Now, 2 months after the controversy seems to have settled down, Disney CEO has revealed to Time magazine that he will be meeting Martin Scorsese to discuss his Marvel comments. Disney CEO Bob Iger was recently named Time magazine’s Businessperson of the Year, which is a huge deal for the Disney mogul. In his interview with the magazine, the Disney CEO threw another shot at Martin Scorsese, stating that The Irishman artist doesn’t have the right to say Marvel movies aren’t art.
“If Marty Scorsese wants to be in the business of taking artistic risk, all power to him. It doesn’t mean that what we’re doing isn’t art.”
The Time magazine article doesn’t go into details as to when Disney CEO Bob Iger and Martin Scorsese will be meeting, though we can imagine it will be after the awards campaign for Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and The Irishman are complete. Martin Scorsese’s comments on Marvel seem to have sparked a larger cultural conversation regarding Disney’s prominence on the cinematic landscape. Regardless of where you stand on the Marvel controversy, it’s good to know that Disney CEO Bob Iger and Martin Scorsese might just squash their beef. And who knows, maybe Disney CEO Bob Iger will be the one funding Martin Scorsese’s next masterpiece?
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The next film in the ever-expanding Marvel saga is Black Widow. Full plot details on Marvel Studios’ Black Widow are currently under wraps, though it has been revealed that the film is set after the events of Captain America: Civil War and will see Scarlett Johansson’s Nathasha Romanoff take on the villainous Taskmaster. The film will also mark the Marvel Cinematic Universe debut of Yelena Belova, the second modern-era character to use the Black Widow title in the comics.
Directed by Cate Shortland from a script written by Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson, Black Widow stars Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, Ray Winstone, Olivier Richters, and Rachel Weisz.
Black Widow will be released in theaters on May 1, 2020.
Source: Time
