Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Breaks Silence On Wonder Man, Blade Cancelations: "The Optics Are Obvious"

@harryba11zack - You notice every director Marvel hires has this same clowns appearance and look?


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ix47sQPAO_8

@harryba11zack - sorry you’re so miserable bro. Prayers

@Chris827 - He's not saying that because he is black that it was cancelled. He's saying that the optics look that way when in reality it was due to low viewership and he understands the business side of it but people that aren't in the industry do not view it that way.

@Patient2670 - I’ve always found that amusing - half the audience thinks Disney is too “woke” and half thinks it’s racist/homophobic/etc. etc.

Not sure how that works, but it’s . . . interesting.

Almost like people read into it whatever their personal agendas are . . .

@Chris827 - What about Blade?? He’s always been black. That movie could’ve made bank. Also, nobody ask them to swap races. Some of us just want good content.

@Timerider - actually that doesn’t make sense to me at all. Blade is a vampire hunter not an Avenger or part of the X-Men. Oh, well hopefully Feige and Disney lose the rights soon and someone with an actual soul can pick up the pieces and give us good original content without AI

@Chris827 - agreed.

@ClarkJoeKent - Right. So they race swap another white character so there is representation but its old white men that are the problem.

Who stopped everyone else from watching the show? I mean, you guys make no sense at all. The same studio gave Black Panther top shelf treatment all the way. Not only was the creator black but every member of the cast and crew practically. The movie is getting another sequel.

Blade wasn't made because it was a bait and switch. It was going to be about his daughter and the actor, who is black, was not on board. Its a good thing too because it would have been shit.

@CreateNowSlpL8r - Right. So they race swap another white character so there is representation but its old white men that are the problem.....lets not be COY! You know exactly what Im referring to. Im going to spell this out plainly so theres no room for error. This business is OWNED by OLD WHITE MEN since the early 1900s. If you want me to believe that since BACK THEN they wanted anyone of equality with BLACK MEN youre trying to bull shit me. So a 100 years later these same companies INCLUDING Hollywood is trying to be...lets say equal is a joke. The reasons why Tyler Perry & Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby etc had to create their own network etc because in todays world white ppl took black ppls word woke & made it political NOW its a DEI when they're seen working under white folks. PLAIN & SIMPLE. Bad Shows are bad shows regardless of the race. When a white male does a show or film that doesn't work we just look past it with no label.........

@thedrudo - Hit dogs HOLLA!😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ClarkJoeKent - yes...old "white" men

@ClarkJoeKent - Seriously can’t tell - for a number of reasons - if this is a troll post or genuine.

@ClarkJoeKent - Wouldn’t that same rationale go toward you?

@ClarkJoeKent - Ra's, The Ancient One, Ang, all whitewashed.

@Baf - Incorrect.

I'm saying DESPITE poor performance, the studio is sticking with Sam Wilson. Therefore the argument that its old white men and bad optics is untrue. Secondly, I said MULTIPLE times that its all the same people complaining that don't support the projects. Sam Wilson as Captain America has failed multiple times in the comics. His movie did HORRIBLY. Not badly, HORRIBLY.

Its not that DEI actors that caused movies to fail, shit shows and movies by inexperienced and incompetent show runners did. Now if you want to go up the last 5-years of how they were hired, thats your deal. I really don't get you guys. If a product sucks, but a POC or woman made it, its like no one can say anything about it. Why does it matter? Did Brave New World suck and lose money after practically reshooting the entire movie? It lost money, thats what objective means. What you want to do is ignore the simple fact that audiences in multiple genres rejected Sam as Captain America. Why was Sam so popular as Falcon?

And again, didn't I call out the reason there is a Black Panther 3 mulitple times? Why do you guys keep ignoring it? Do you see anyone going crazy about Ryan Coogler and team having an entire cast and crew that are POC, primarily black? No, because no one cares and we went to see the movie.

DEI doesn't make something fail because of skin color or whatever bucket you want to put people in. It fails because sometimes, the people they hire are not competent. Why is that so unbelievable to you?

Do you realize, a majority. Not a miniority, a majority of the showrunners, producers, and writers who worked on Star Wars or Marvel projects the last 5 years never got work again? Do you think its possible that now that the pendulum evened out a bit, that other studios dont feel as inclined to hire incompetent people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars on failed projects? Leslie Headland is white. Shes a perfect example. Do you care as much about her because its the same argument.

Wonderman was a dumb concept by writers who wanted to be "meta." They did not honor the source material for a comic book project and that was the first problem. Don't you think that maybe, just maybe by the time this project came out that the audience just became tired of seeing characters they didn't care about who's stories were more about what they were instead of developing an engaging story?

No one watched it. The world is a big place. Why are you not blaming everyone else for not watching it? You want to call out people who say, I don't like what they did with this character. You probably don't know shit about Wonderman while I have boxes of comics featuring him. Guess what? I watched it. So the reason they cancelled it has nothing to do with the person you are arguing with. It the people that pretend to agree with you and are frauds. For the last time, I didn't see any of you post on forums calling out people for not watching this show or Captain America. You just complain when it gets cancelled and when an actor makes an idiot statement, you defend it. Meanwhile you ignore that the studio still supports POC in lead roles where it makes money or makes sense. Its a business, not your feelings charity.

I might have issues with these projects but I pay my monthly sub and watch it all. I even review the movies here. Go on X and call out all the communities of "fans" that are backing this actor up and ask them why they didnt support it. Dont bitch to me.

@CreateNowSlpL8r - But you're actually arguing against something the actor didn't say. He acknowledged that he was told the cancellation was related to viewership and said he understood that it was a business decision. His point was that he believed the show was good enough to warrant examining why the audience didn't show up. That's not the same as claiming Disney cancelled it because the lead was Black.”

@CreateNowSlpL8r - The idiot was you an over conservative ass who's trying to force his views upon me. I dont agree because someone is BLACK that makes them unqualified for any thing when history proves that when we was in the caves The Moors aka Black ppl was living in castles etc, they taught us math, sciences etc & we came to the Americas & took those melanated ppl land reclassified them, disenfranchised them then label them DEI Hires when they do a job anyone of us could do! SMFH Talk about COPE-A-MANIA!