[quote=“antarcticbeech”]
It just looks so depressingly formulaic. Handsome American white man good guy, evil looking bad guy, token black guy, token woman. I wouldn’t ever consider watching such a movie.[/quote]
Isn’t that true for most TV/movies writers in the US though?
Actually more and more scifi writers are women. Guardians of the Galaxy for example is co-scripted by Nicole Perlman. There were incredibly talented female writers who wrote for Star Trek series, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Chuck, Heroes and so on. Anne Cofell Saunders, Natalie Chaidez, Gale Anne Hurd to name a few.
As for ethnicity, many early Marvel comic book writers were Jewish, and they write from an angle of being ridiculed, being outcasts, and experiences of their elders being oppressed and displaced. That stuff rings true in any racial social commentary. It’s embedded in stories such as X-men, which some X-men movies did well to capture.
Ironman seems like the flagship now because it was a huge success, but back when Marvel pushed the Ironman project, most people didn’t expect much of it. People probably felt about it the way we feel about Antman right now. What makes Ironman special isn’t that Ironman is a minority, it’s that Tony Stark is an antihero and a douche.
[quote=“antarcticbeech”]I have seen Tetsuo, the Iron Man.
Which was very, er, educational, and very much more my taste in film.[/quote]
Itself a comic adaptation.