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‘Why do I need an all-Black cast?’

It’s like a storyline from “Succession”: an aging businessman worth billions has everything he’s ever wanted except the full respect of his peers. In an attempt to cement his legacy, and to place the grandest feather in his cap, he sets his sights on his most ambitious target yet: the biggest entertainment company in the world. He will force his way through the doors. He will conquer the company from the inside. And he will bend it to his will.

It sounds like fiction, but it’s very real. Despite his self-professed lack of experience in entertainment, billionaire Nelson Peltz, through his company Trian Partners, is waging a proxy war against the Walt Disney Company, demanding two seats on the board and influence over the company’s decisions. It’s a fight that has been playing out for more than a year, and it has as many backstabbings, broken loyalties and burdens of familial legacy as a Shakespearean tragedy. 

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