Rumor: Marvel Studios “Fired All The Producers That Could Be Labeled ‘Activist'”

Bounding Into Comics Reports: As the old adage goes, “The more things change, the more things stay the same.”

According to a new whisper from within the halls of Disney, while Marvel Studios has reportedly learned from their recent mistakes and “cleaned house” of any and all of its “activist” producers, Lucasfilm is choosing to keep on their creatively bankrupt path to self-destruction.

Word of this apparent divergence between the House of Mouse’s two subsidiary studios was first raised on August 2nd by Film Threat founder Chris Gore during a recent appearance on The Critical Drinker’s Drinker’s Open Bar podcast.

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Offering his thoughts on the Marvel Studios’ near-future outlook in light of their showing at the recent 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, Gore opined, “I think we’re gonna get a year of bad Marvel stuff. TV shows, you’ve got Agatha [All Along], you’ve got Ironheart, these two movies [Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts]. Fantastic Four, we’ll see.”

“We’ll see how Robert Downey Jr. will be used,” he added, referring to the news that the former Iron Man actor would be playing Doctor Doom in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars duology. “Is he a variant of Tony Stark? Is he just an actor playing a different character? So, whatever it is, I think it’s interesting.”

In further arguing for his optimism, Gore then asserted “I do know people who work at Marvel – they have cleaned house. They quietly, months ago, fired all the producers that could be labeled ‘activist’.”