Stan Lee: The Final Chapter - Documentary showing the exploitation of good ol' Stan.

[Tasty Tatty]

Stan Lee: The Final Chapter Documentary Reveals How Marvel Icon Was Exploited in His Final Years​

A documentary about Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee’s tumultuous final years is in the works and nearing completion. Titled Stan Lee: The Final Chapter, the film takes fans behind the scenes for an in-depth exploration of how Lee was exploited by his former business partners for financial gain. The documentary is directed by Jon Bolerjack, who worked closely with Lee during the last four years of Lee’s life. As one of Lee’s assistants, Bolerjack accompanied Lee and Lee’s entourage to numerous events and shot several hundred hours of video, which serves as the foundation for the documentary. The footage highlights Lee’s “closest confidants, including several who exploited Lee’s declining health and age.”


Stan Lee: The Final Chapter highlights how Lee was used to generate revenue at convention appearances, as autographed memorabilia and photo ops brought in large sums of money — most of which was “never to be seen by Lee or his family.” Bolerjack is looking to raise funds to help complete the documentary through a just-launched Kickstarter. It’s expected that the finished film will be released “before the end of the year.”


Headlines of Lee being the victim of elder abuse were prevalent during the latter stages of his life. Just a few months before Lee passed away in November 2018, he had filed a restraining order against his former business partner Keya Morgan. Back in 2019, Morgan was arrested on elder abuse charges, with police stating Morgan had convinced Lee that he was in danger and needed to be moved. In lawsuits filed against his ex-manager and attorney, Lee called them “unscrupulous businessmen, sycophants and opportunists.”

“It was an absolute dream come true for me to get to intimately know, befriend and travel the world with one of my life’s icons, Stan Lee,” Bolerjack shared in a statement. “He entrusted me to capture the final years of his life on video and encouraged me to share this footage with the world after he was gone. And after witnessing how a handful of people who surrounded him continually betrayed him in his weakened condition, I felt it was left to me to tell this shockingly and truly heartbreaking story of his last days.”


In the past four years, Bolerjack has “invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money” into Stan Lee: The Final Chapter while working alongside his team of editors and fellow producers. To raise the necessary funding to complete the film, a Kickstarter fundraiser is launching today. Those interested in learning more information can watch the video above or visit the film’s Kickstarter page to make a contribution.

Source / Kickstarter

Trailer:

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I am shocked the Mouse hasn't tried to kill this guy yet.

I'm reading a lot of people also going after the guy, and I think they're on denial that their fav franchise doing something like this, specially knowing how much of a ideological puritans they are. He's invested his own money, I see no reason why he wouldn't want to get some of it back, love or not love for Stan Lee. They have boycotted other projects for less. Others simply said it was karma for how he treated this or that one comic writer years ago.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

This feels as genuine as Corey Feldman wanting to "expose the child raping cabal" but only after Haim died.

 

[Breadbassket]

Not exactly a huge fan of Stan Lee but elder abuse is sad to see regardless of who it is. Somewhat strange this took 7 years to come out though. Will not be surprised if a lot of the allegations in this are disputed.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I recall a lot of red flags raised around the time they did some creepy promotion about comic covers made using ink with his blood or something similarly literally vampiric
which would make sense for Gene Simmons or lots of other heavy metal guys, but not in any way for kindly old Grandpa Cameo Man

 

[Breadbassket]

I recall a lot of red flags raised around the time they did some creepy promotion about comic covers made using ink with his blood or something similarly literally vampiric which would make sense for Gene Simmons or lots of other heavy metal guys, but not in any way for kindly old Grandpa Cameo Man

His blood was used to sign Black Panther comics which is just a wild thing to think about. There is an article from 2018 that brings up elder abuse allegations even before his passing. After his death his Twitter account was used by someone to promote NFTs. Definitely seems like in the last few years of his life he was surrounded by extremely money-hungry opportunists and sketchy people.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

fine, i'll watch it and report back

 

[sadbird]

This kickstarter is so evil it loops right back around to being funny again. These rewards tiers are absolute comedy. I can pay 500$ for a drawing of titties? That's wild. Stan Lee? Oh yeah sad whatever I guess lmao

 

[beautiful person]

I had to have Milktoast Youtube Man explain the situation to me in the background while I was doing other things, otherwise I wasn't going to care enough to look into any deeper details.

Idk, this Bolerjack guy comes off as very autistic to me. He's completely oblivious to how he himself is coming across as exploitative, and has no sense of what is and isn't appropriate when it comes to handling all of this. Also, I think Penguin-O is implying that Bolerjack was the same guy using Lee's Twitter account to shill NFTs.

Obviously Stan Lee was being exploited tf out of, and his fame milked dry. You can't have the kind of schedule he had at his age without it being detrimental to his well-being, and you can see the negative effects in some of the clips. You can see the pushiness and aggression from that Mexican guy in the clips. But Bolerjack also comes off as one of the exploiters, only maybe he's only exploiting everything after the fact, and he isn't quick-witted enough to effectively smooth over his own exploitativeness.

It's a very weird and sad situation. Goes to show that fame is actively dangerous as you age, especially when your fans are insatiable consoomer nerds.

 

[Bruce LaLiLuLeLo]

On one hand this feels like a scam, reminds me of the lone wolf and cub motion comic scam kickstarter that kazuo koike was kicking around. On the other hand, stan was treated like shit towards the end, even by his own family so if this doc is good then it's probably be some sort of vindication. Keyword is if it's good which I doubt it will be, that's probably why disney hasn't done anything cause they know it will be terrible. I doubt this will be on the "the great buster" or "Robin Williams come into my mind" level of documentary.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

His blood was used to sign Black Panther comics which is just a wild thing to think about.

This is disgusting and everyone involved should stay away from decent people.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

he had filed a restraining order against his former business partner Keya Morgan. Back in 2019, Morgan was arrested on elder abuse charges, with police stating Morgan had convinced Lee that he was in danger and needed to be moved.

I googled the name because I was confused as to why Lee's business partner was a sassy black woman, but turns out it's just an incredibly sleazy looking mutt. His instagram is just soulless pictures of him and the celebs he's fleezing. He's IMDB profile is crazy. How anyone hired this obvious liar for anything is incredible.

A noted scholar, historian, producer, writer, director, and entrepreneur, Keya Morgan first appeared on CNN as a child business prodigy at age 11, and has since lent his expertise to clients that comprise dozens of the world's most famous people and prestigious institutions. These include the White House, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stanford University, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.

There could be something to this documentary, if Bolerjack has enough footage of Stan Lee being gaslit/bullied/threatened/etc. I don't put much stock in any interviews with Hollywood and comics people because they're all opportunists. But I don't doubt that Lee was milked for money until the day he died.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

His blood was used to sign Black Panther comics which is just a wild thing to think about. There is an article from 2018 that brings up elder abuse allegations even before his passing. After his death his Twitter account was even used by someone to promote NFTs. Definitely seems like in the last few years of his life he was surrounded by extremely money-hungry opportunists and sketchy people.

yeah that's it
but that's what I mean, if it was like something where blood was part of the gimmick for the artist, the IP, whatever
like I said, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, anything legendarily bloody or metal af
Detroit Metal City would be perfect, and throw in a extra short story where the dude agrees to have Krauser give blood for a dumb media stunt and wacky fun ensues
hell even something more milquetoast like Tomb Of Dracula where it's at least thematically appropriate and a guy attached to that title

you might as well have done this with fucking Archie

 

[Shroom King]

Bolerjack accompanied Lee and Lee’s entourage to numerous events and shot several hundred hours of video,

Bolerjack is looking to raise funds to help complete the documentary through a just-launched Kickstarter.

"I recorded a senile old man for hundreds of hours without his knowledge, please give me money so you can watch me pretend to be outraged by people taking advantage of him." Sounds legit.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

There was a really good biography of Stan Lee called True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee that goes into detail about his final days. It seemed like there was a whole assortment of scumbags that latched onto him in his old age. I'm not sure if the documentary has any actual new information, but what happened to Stan Lee was pretty sad.

 

[iNEEDthatMoney]

I had to have Milktoast Youtube Man explain the situation to me in the background while I was doing other things, otherwise I wasn't going to care enough to look into any deeper details.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H_wJQih0Yww
Idk, this Bolerjack guy comes off as very autistic to me. He's completely oblivious to how he himself is coming across as exploitative, and has no sense of what is and isn't appropriate when it comes to handling all of this. Also, I think Penguin-O is implying that Bolerjack was the same guy using Lee's Twitter account to shill NFTs.

Obviously Stan Lee was being exploited tf out of, and his fame milked dry. You can't have the kind of schedule he had at his age without it being detrimental to his well-being, and you can see the negative effects in some of the clips. You can see the pushiness and aggression from that Mexican guy in the clips. But Bolerjack also comes off as one of the exploiters, only maybe he's only exploiting everything after the fact, and he isn't quick-witted enough to effectively smooth over his own exploitativeness.

It's a very weird and sad situation. Goes to show that fame is actively dangerous as you age, especially when your fans are insatiable consoomer nerds.

Moistcritikal can go fuck himself. He sits on his ass all day & twiddles his thumb up his ass for views & still has a crew of several people working for him behind the scenes & is saying it's wrong for a guy to ask for $400,000 to make a documentary?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

"I recorded a senile old man for hundreds of hours without his knowledge, please give me money so you can watch me pretend to be outraged by people taking advantage of him." Sounds legit.

I get that, but there is nothing he could have done to stop what was happening to him. at least he was still around him, perhaps trying to check on him, and documenting the whole thing that, I hope, helps to put the right people in jail.

 

[David Brown]

This guy's kids didn't protect him? Or were they part of the racket? If so that's lol

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Moistcritikal can go fuck himself. He sits on his ass all day & twiddles his thumb up his ass for views & still has a crew of several people behind the scenes & is saying it's wrong for a guy to ask for $400,000 to make a documentary?

MoistCritical looks like someone who got popular because the algorithm confused him for Asmongold.

 

[Hff201]

I'll play devil's advocate and say there's a possibility this is being done in good faith, since part of this kind of abuse is systemic - it's not just about squeezing as much cash out of the old man as possible, it's also about shutting down anyone who tries to expose it. If you look at the BBC sexual abuse scandals, there were people who knew about what Jimmy Savile et al were up to and attempted to report it through the proper channels only to be ignored or have their concerns downplayed, and faced being blacklisted for saying too much (Johnny Rotten etc.). If there was a coverup I'd like that to be included in the documentary since that'd be equally as damning as the abuse itself.

The part that rubs me the wrong way is the fundraiser; even if it is being properly invested into the project, the optics of it are terrible and could hurt the credibility of whatever they show. I'd rather them just compile the evidence they have into a lower-budget project to get the necessary information out there, than try to make an elaborate thing of it.

 

[Breadbassket]

This guy's kids didn't protect him? Or were they part of the racket? If so that's lol

Stan Lee had one daughter and she has been accused of partaking in elder abuse herself.