You would think that the board of directors would fire everyone before their share holders eat them alive.

I suspect they just need to destroy an iconic family friendly brand. It once made wholesome content and an anti God society can't have that. Attendance is way down at their parks. They drove the conservative base away with the choices they made within their various IPs. They then upset their progressive base with their foray into Abu Dhabi. "Race" swapping "The Black Panther"? No sane, well run company behaves this way. Once the company is defunct, the rights to the good movies they once made can be purchased for pennies on the dollar and the next owner can make many billions of dollars on the nostalgia.

Indeed. It truly shows that the 'inmates' are now running the asylum.

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And here it is. I thought it was 5-6 months ago... I called it 10 months ago.

Personally I wonder if they are simply testing the waters to see what the response is going to be from their Black audience members. If enough object then maybe they won't go ahead with this. But we shall see.

I think it's more of a spin wheel. They have a spin wheel of "Twists" & every movie, the spin it for making something iconically part of a story - vastly different.

Ang Lee Hulk happens - So they spin the wheel for the next Hulk Movie. Spin: recast Bruce Banner

Avengers Movie finally happens. Spin the wheel... Lands on recast Bruce Banner again, so they spin the wheel again. Spin result: let's completely leave founding members out of the movie.

Snow White happens - spin the wheel... Lands on let's make Snow White less attractive than the Queen. Frank the intern accidentally bumped the wheel for a second spin: lands on let's make it woke garbage where the man is the worst.

Black Panther movie - spins the wheel. "Alienate the main audience that would be like the watch it"

Sadly that makes as much sense as any other theory regarding Disney's insane choices.

What's really funny is a basically called it like 5-6 months ago. I made a meme with Robert Downey Junior as Black Panther

Ha! And they say clairvoyance is a myth.

I sort of liked the Blank Panther back in my comics books reading youth -- so very very many decades ago -- but I also didn't see much point in his character since he was no more athletic or acrobatic than Daredevil.