So, concerning Nia Dacosta and The Marvels, there was this article from about two weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound like the words of someone completely spurned, thrown under the bus and has burned bridges. So, either what was reported previously was way overblown (which has happened before), or it’s a much more complicated situation. And, doing a bit of googling, though Feige does place the blame on The Marvels’ failure for people not watching WandaVision and Ms. Marvel, it does mention that Bob Iger specifically was the one who threw Dacosta under the bus.
If I had to guess, after Bob Iger made those comments, sometime in the past Feige had a talk with him about it and then spoke with Dacosta and tried to play peacemaker or work put some sort of deal and smooth things over because he actually liked working with her, didn’t want to burn that bridge and still needed her for a future project or projects.
Look, I’m not saying Kevin Feige is a saint or hasn’t made some boneheaded decisions as of late, but I think in this case he was just trying to make the best of a bad situation. I’ve worked at places where I have been around in instances where the person at the top did or said something that negatively affected an employee and a middle man had to talk the manager or whomever down so that the employee could continue working with the company, for pragmatic reasons and because they were a great person to be around and to work with.
In cases like this, it’s not always as simple as it initially seems.
@ Oz
