![]() Last year, a survey by the Writers Guild of America found that women wrote only 15% of feature films, down from 17% in 2009. This not only makes sense from a creative perspective but from an activist perspective as well. ![]() To hire a man to helm a long-awaited film would have caused a worse and more vocal backlash than when Ben Affleck was cast as Batman.įifty Shades was also the largest opening weekend for a female director ever, and James had held out for a woman for her project. hired another woman to bring the lasso of truth to the big screen, and that comic book franchise will have far more Y chromosomes filling the theaters than Fifty Shades ever will. Wouldn’t it make sense that the powers that be would want a woman in one of the major creative roles on the movie? When a planned Wonder Woman movie recently lost its female director, Warner Bros. Nearly 70% of the audience for the movie’s opening weekend back in February was female, a staggeringly high percentage. ![]() Things could get complicated for James’ empire. With the official addition of Leonard to the creative team for the new movie, there is a growing amount of testosterone in one of the few giant Hollywood franchises that so far has resisted interference by the patriarchy, both in terms of its creation and narrative. Grey seems like nothing more than a cash grab, another telling of the same tale to capitalize on a trilogy that sold well over 100 million copies, which is even bigger than a blockbuster in the book world. ![]()
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