Stan Lee to "return" to Marvel Studios

Started by The Laughing Fish, Thu, 19 May 2022, 09:45

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Marvel Studios now has the rights to use Stan Lee's likeness and recreate him digitally for whatever commercial enterprise they have in mind. For twenty years.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stan-lee-marvel-studios-licensing-deal-1235149039/

I don't like this at all. I think using modern technology to "bring back" the dead is rather creepy, and the fact that Lee was exploited in the last few years of his life makes the matter even more unsettling. Even if he had given his permission for Marvel to do this, he was quite frail and it's very possible he didn't understand what he was getting into.

I find this whole deal to be very distasteful for a man who is no longer alive and doesn't have a say over how his likeness is used. Marvel might as well recreate Chadwick Boseman to bring back T'Challa while they're at it.

It's awful, shame on all parties involved. Let the man rest in peace.
QuoteJonathan Nolan: He [Batman] has this one rule, as the Joker says in The Dark Knight. But he does wind up breaking it. Does he break it in the third film?

Christopher Nolan: He breaks it in...

Jonathan Nolan: ...the first two.

Source: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uwV8rddtKRgC&pg=PR8&dq=But+he+does+wind+up+breaking+it.&hl=en&sa=X&ei

This seems inappropriate to me. I understand that his cameo appearances were popular. But this seems a little over the line of good taste.