{"id":14069,"date":"2016-05-17T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2016-05-17T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:35:55","slug":"marvel-wouldnt-let-the-main-villain-in-iron-man-3-be-female-because-of-action-figure-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/marvel-wouldnt-let-the-main-villain-in-iron-man-3-be-female-because-of-action-figure-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Wouldn\u2019t Let The Main Villain In Iron Man 3 Be Female Because Of Action Figure Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051716_1233_MarvelWould1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Ryan interviewed Shane Black, the director of Iron Man 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the original script for Iron Man 3 the main villain of the movie had been female.<\/li>\n<li>However, the head of Marvel forced the writers to make them male because they were afraid that a female action figure wouldn&#8217;t sell as well.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns that people don&#8217;t buy action figures of females is also why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-the-avengers-isnt-marketing-toys-for-girls\/\">Black Widow doesn&#8217;t really have her own action figure<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-comic-book-cartoons-target-boys\/\">why comic cartoons usually have a very specific type of humour<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is hope. The head of Marvel Studios who made the &#8220;no main female villain&#8221; decision has since left the company and been replaced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full interview that&#8217;s focused on Black&#8217;s latest cinematic project, The Nice Guys, <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/movies\/shane-black-the-nice-guys-iron-man-3\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/movies\/shane-black-the-nice-guys-iron-man-3\/\">Uproxx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ryan interviewed Shane Black, the director of Iron Man 3: In the original script for Iron Man 3 the main villain of the movie had been female. However, the head of Marvel forced the writers to make them male because they were afraid that a female action figure wouldn&#8217;t sell as well. Concerns that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/051716_1233_MarvelWould1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14072,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions\/14072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}