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Lightyear was so bad at so many levels. I think it's expected for you to step down after such a flop. I'm pretty sure she fought for a lot of Lightyear stuff to

• jakelazaroff 3y ago
  Why are you sure of that? What makes you so confident that she bears responsibility for the movie being a flop?
  • Gualdrapo 3y ago
    For what it's worth, I've already seen several posts on Facebook where people are claiming they were sacked because they made that movie "woke"
    • jakelazaroff 3y ago
      Of course, but those takes are untethered from reality. We saw the counterfactual play out with The Super Mario Bros. Movie: first it was "woke" and "feminist" because Peach was a "girlboss" rather than a damsel in distress, and then when the movie made a ton of money the same people said it was actually "anti-woke" because they didn't race swap Mario and Luigi. I guarantee that if Lightyear had done well, they'd be talking about how these layoffs happened because Disney is a "woke corporation" that hates white male leads or some other reactionary conservative culture war mad-lib bullshit.
  • thefounder 3y ago
    The director and the producer have a big say on the movie. You can't blame the distribution(disney) or the public. So who else is to blame if not at least the director and the producer?
    • jakelazaroff 3y ago
      I'm specifically asking about this claim: > I'm pretty sure she fought for a lot of Lightyear stuff to be included in the final release.