Disney has clearly lost the magic touch.
The Mouse House keeps making all the wrong moves.
But now Disney executives were hit with the news that forced them to finally make the one admission audiences wanted to hear.
Disney just deep-sixed one catastrophic “woke” failure
The Star Wars franchise has been completely run into the ground.
Disney took arguably the richest intellectual property in film and television, and turned it into a repellant brand.
The latest Star Wars swing-and-miss was The Acolyte, which mercifully only got one season as plans for a second season were scrapped.
Deadline reported that the “story of The Acolyte will not continue, with Lucas Film opting not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg The news is not entirely surprising. The Acolyte did OK with critics, with 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, but divided Star Wars fans, which was reflected in its overall viewership.”
That is an understatement.
The show was absolutely savaged by the fans.
Leftists have tried to blame “woke” flops on so-called toxic fans, but the shows that are not objectively terrible never get the same horrible fan reviews.
Viewership tanked
Deadline also reported that “[d]riven by interest into the venerable space franchise, The Acolyte got off to a strong start when it launched June 4 with two episodes, generating 4.8M views in its first day on the streamer to rank as the biggest series premiere on Disney+ this year. The tally rose to 11.1 million views globally after five days of streaming. Corroborating Disney’s data, the series made its debut on Nielsen’s Top 10 originals chart in its premiere week at No. 7 (488 million minutes viewed), climbing to No. 6 the following week.”
But once people realized it was terrible, viewership plummeted.
Deadline added that “The Acolyte could not sustain the momentum, dropping out of the Top 10 in Week 3 and staying off before returning at No. 10 after the release of the finale (335M minutes, believed to be the lowest for a Star Wars series finale).”
The show was doomed when lead actress Amandla Stenberg and showrunner Leslye Headland explained the depths of the show’s “wokeness” during an interview.
The interviewer enthusiastically said that the series was the “gayest Star Wars” ever.
Stenberg replied, “I think that Star Wars is so gay already. . .I mean have you seen the fits? We’d be like, ‘Look how gay this is’ and send each other reference photos.”
Headland then joked, “Are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight?”
The interviewer answered, “They’re a couple. That’s what I think,” which caused Headland to jokingly proclaim that it was Star Wars “canon” that R2-D2 is a “lesbian.”
We are happy to report that #TheAcolyte is “arguably the gayest #StarWars” yet. 🌈 Happy Pride Month! 😉 pic.twitter.com/3oJSykc4Kq
— TheWrap (@TheWrap) June 4, 2024
Disney refuses to learn its lesson.
The company continues to double down on “woke” content even though audiences have flatly rejected it.
CEO Bob Iger paid lip service to scaling back the political message.
But his underlings have been slow to course-correct.
Disney already had to delay the release of the live-action remake of Snow White due to backlash.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
