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*”Black Panther” writer, Joe Robert Cole, thinks that “douchey” Tony Stark would not fly in this age of Trump and the #MeToo movement.
Robert Downey, Jr. played Stark in the $2.4 billion-dollar “Iron Man” franchise.
During a “Superhero Science” panel Saturday afternoon at SXSW, Cole responded to a question on whether superheroes’ values reflect or shape the culture:
“Think about where we are now, with this very vapid, unintelligent president and our world is crackling on the edges because of that. Think back to Tony Stark, him being douchey and being okay. If that character, Stark, was created in a movie today, I wonder if the response would be like, ‘Oh, it’s cool that he’s douchey and disrespectful to women … That’s fine.’ I think we’re at a different place. I think it’s a better place.”
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Nicole Perlman, co-writer of “Captain Marvel” and “Guardians of the Galaxy,” added that superhero cultural concerns extend worldwide.
“[At] one of the franchises that I’ve helped on — which Joe, you will know — there’s a whole thing about which countries you can’t have be the bad guys because they buy a lot of movie tickets,” she said.
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Meanwhile, since its February release, “Black Panther” has grossed over $1 billion worldwide, and A 2019 Oscar campaign is already underway.
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