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[richiek]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reclusive-marvel-ceo-ike-perlmutter-photographed-public-959632

Ike Perlmutter, the CEO of Marvel Entertainment, has been photographed in public — a rare instance for the reclusive mogul.

Perlmutter met with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Wednesday and was photographed by Jonathan Ernst for Reuters news agency. The image shows a sunglasses-wearing Perlmutter and Trump peering out of a window.

Perlmutter was helping organize a health summit with the president-elect at Trump's Florida retreat.

Unlike executives at other major studios and networks, the 74-year-old Marvel CEO has been photographed very few times over the years. Perlmutter was said to have showed up at 2008's Iron Man premiere in disguise, Hollywood Reporter editor-at-large Kim Masters reported in a definitive 2014 profile of the mogul.

Getty Images and Associated Press photo databases currently show zero results for Perlmutter.

Here was the only previously known photo of Perlmutter:

And here he is with the orange fascist:

Pure evil.

 

[studyguy]

Did Spiderman get this image? It looks like the guy was outside a window.

 

[Escape Goat]

I feel scared by that pic.

 

[Button]

Sad!

 

[Maxim726X]

yo.

is dat sulfur in that image?

infowarz.com

 

[CoolOff]

Wait, how do you even function as a CEO in this day and age without having your picture taken at least a few times?

 

[Killer Queen]

That's a pretty ghastly image of the two of them

 

[nhlducks35]

That stare tho

 

[The Silver]

pic looks like someone just stumbled upon an evil secret society and now they're going to kill them

 

[itwasTuesday]

Reminds me of the shining

 

[Dabanton]

That image is hilariously creepy

 

[SolKane]

The first image almost looks like a set photo of an actor for some modern drama about the Iranian revolution.

 

[LycanXIII]

How old is that first pic of him?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

 

[Ducarmel]

This guy sounds like Kingpin or something, is he going to come out in the light soon.

 

[AuthenticM]

That doesn't look like him to me. Unless that previous picture is 20 years old.

 

[Burt]

That doesn't look like him to me. Unless that previous picture is 20 years old.

That previous picture is 20 years old.

 

[Killer Queen]

I really gotta watch the shining

Spoiler

but I'll probably just watch the Witch 5 more times

 

[Matsukaze]

pic looks like someone just stumbled upon an evil secret society and now they're going to kill them

^

 

[Frozenprince]

Wait, how do you even function as a CEO in this day and age without having your picture taken at least a few times?

Be obscenely rich.

 

[Blader]

That doesn't look like him to me. Unless that previous picture is 20 years old.

It's from like 1988.

 

[Pinko Marx]

How ironic that Marvel's CEO looks like a supervillain.

 

[Neoxon]

He looks like he's staring into my soul behind those shades.

 

[SolarPowered]

I feel scared by that pic.

The photographer is definitely gonna end up in Guantanamo on the 21st of January.

 

[Debirudog]

that is one menacing glare.

 

[Permanently A]

Doc Ock?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

"Heil Hydra."

 

[Grizzlyjin]

It's all connected...

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

I guess we've found our MCU Norman Osborn.

 

[Monocle]

I really gotta watch the shining

Spoiler

but I'll probably just watch the Witch 5 more times

Can't go wrong either way.

 

[Banjotanooki]

Photoshop masters, do your work!

 

[Glass Rebel]

As if I needed any more proof that Marvel and Marvel Studios don't communicate with each other. The CG on Michael Douglas and RDJ looked way better.

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

Looks like Trump has gained some weight? I wonder how his physical state will handle the burden of being president. You always see those "before and after" photos of past presidents where they look like they have aged like 15 years in the span of a 4 year term.

 

[maquiladora]

He looks like some kind of Eastern Bloc autocrat from the 1970s.

But enough about Trump....

 

[Sojgat]

Trump looking like Darkseid complete with pet parademon in that pic.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

 

[RPGCrazied]

Ew. Time to stop watching marvel movies I guess?

 

[Nudull]

This is gonna be hard to take

Spoiler

or defend

for Marvel fans, I imagine.

 

[broncobuster]

That's what my first thought was too. Maybe that time he made Chris Evans pay for his own gym membership was Ike making a joke.

 

[Ryzaki009]

Ew. Time to stop watching marvel movies I guess?

Couldn't you just watch them when they come on cable? Or do they get money for that too?

 

[nhlducks35]

ayy lmao

 

[Vibranium]

It will be a great day when Marvel finally is rid of this guy (the horror stories of him in the book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story are crazy). Hopefully his family would be more hands-off with the television and comics division finances. Or sell his shares.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Ew. Time to stop watching marvel movies I guess?

He has almost nothing to with Marvel movies nowadays, Disney took the reigns from him at Kevin Feige's request.

I think he still has a say over pretty much everything else Marvel produces, though. And him being a colossal tool was well-known long before he started donating to Trump.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

I feel scared by that pic.

Trump looks like he just killed a man.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Couldn't you just watch them when they come on cable? Or do they get money for that too?

Probably. Definitely not spending $15 to go see one in a theater. I'm not giving this douche more money to spend on his man Trump.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Trump looks terrible

 

[Smellycat]

Reminds me of this:

 

[Glass Rebel]

This is gonna be hard to take

Spoiler

or defend

for Marvel fans, I imagine.

It's not like people didn't know about this.

 

[Sirpopopop]

This is gonna be hard to take

Spoiler

or defend

for Marvel fans, I imagine.

They despise Perlmutter already.

 

[Frostinferno]

Ew. Time to stop watching marvel movies I guess?

Pretty sure Feige specifically took over that division from Perlmutter.