I’ve never bought the idea that men need men leading characters to identify with for a movie to be successful. If you want to sell a man, a magazine put a woman on the cover. If you want to sell a woman a magazine put a woman on the cover. Now this gets into all kinds of sticky issues with objectification and male fantasy, but at least proves the starting point.
Also, Wolverine has a much longer track record than alternate spider heroes. I’m not sure I would have seen this Deadpool in the theater if it weren’t for the presence of Wolverine.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
And if you want to sell something to men AND women, call Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They can definitely cover all the possibilities.