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Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, Marvel’s Echo stars Alaqua Cox as a deaf Native American superhero and comes at a time when Disney finds itself at the heart of the US culture wars.
Can a deaf, Native American superhero with a prosthetic leg reinvigorate Disney's Marvel franchise, just weeks after its CEO appeared to criticize his filmmakers for prioritizing messaging over storytelling?
Can a deaf, Native American superhero with a prosthetic leg reinvigorate Disney's Marvel franchise, just weeks after its CEO appeared to criticize his filmmakers for prioritizing messaging over storytelling?At a conference talk in November, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the company's storytellers had become overly concerned about introducing "positive messages," and had "lost sight of what their number one objective needed to be."
One is a fantasy with roots in World War II. The other boasts Spider-Man.
On abortion, climate change, guns and much more, two Americas — one liberal, one conservative — are moving in opposite directions.