Felt this would happen eventually, what with the rise of superhero popularity. Disney was the logical choice. Them or Viacom.
Will Disney still license movies to other studios or treat them as proprietary through Disney/Marvel Films? I think TW’s exclusive Warner Bros. policy stifles the output and creativity of DC films.
According to the Washington Post Disney is purchasing Marvel Entertainment. The Mouse is going superhero!
I, for one, welcome our new overlords and hope for a She-Hulk comedy movie.
What do y’all think?
Huh. The parade at Disney World should be interesting: Mickey & Minnie Mouse, Buzz Lightyear, Wolverine, Iron Man, Dr. Doom, Stilt-Man, Freedom Ring…
Does this mean Gay Pride Week at Disney is now going to be marvelous?
Well, there will be some changes.
Cinderella now has retractable adamantium claws.
Puck will be fired for refusing to whistle while he works.
If this interferes in any way with Marvel Studios’ in-progress plan for an Avengers movie, there will be a nerd outrage not seen since Wesely Crusher was introduced.
The only good I can see coming from this is that maybe, just maybe Disney would have enough money or power to wrangle the Spider-Man license away from Sony/Universal pictures.
The X-Men team up with the Junior Woodchucks.
Darkwing Duck vs Doctor Doom.
Scrooge McDuck becomes the Fantastic Four’s new landlord.
Merging “Disney Acquires Marvel”-616 thread with “Disney Acquires Marvel”-Prime. Crisis in Infinite Threads Averted.
There’s a difference between appealing more to adults/teens and losing appeal with kids, though I don’t know which smiling bandit meant. Generally i’d imagine a company would be after both. Marvel’s certainly attempting to gain some in the kid market, but whether that’s because they’ve lost ground I don’t know. Beyond that, you can afford to lose the kid market some, since the price of comics now is a lot better suited to people with their own disposable cash rather than people who’re reliant on others for it.
But i’m not sure I agree with sb’s other point. A lot of the successful franchises Marvel holds are already licensed out - otherwise they wouldn’t be successful. Disney aren’t going to profit from those, Universal, Fox, Sony and the like are going to profit.
For now, sure. Five years down the line, Marley24 will travel back in time to prevent some great disaster and throw the whole thing into whack again.
How is X-babby formed?
There are so many comic book fanboy issues with this joke that I really can’t do it justice, so I’ll just league it to others.
Enjoy,
Steven
I hope Marvel gets 'hold of Disney comics now. They’re decent, but not noticeably different from 60 years ago. I would love to see new adventure-themed Uncle Scrooge stories written by the guys at Marvel. Not that Don Rosa doesn’t do a good job, but let’s shake things up a little.
Hell, I would like to see new (slightly new - I’m not talking Loonatics new) takes on Mickey, Donald, Goofy, et al. Those characters are in big danger of becoming irrelevant.
Knowing as little about comics as I do I should have gone with a simpler line about the threads being hit with cosmic rays or bitten by a radioactive spider. But I couldn’t resist.
I can only hope for one thing:
Ash vs. the Disney Zombie Storyline.
Well, first the X-daddy and the X-mommy fall in love and then…
I’m not sure, but I think X-woman get pregant.
I have no idea how this is going to shake out. It’s going to come down to how Disney treats Marvel. If they think the company retains its value by generating IP then things will continue on pretty much the same as they have before. On the other hand Disney could take one look at the publishing numbers, conclude that it’s just not worth it, and stop almost all of the publications.
I can say that Disney won’t be doing any pushes to fix the comic book industry. Comic books are a few hundred million of that four billion price. I don’t foresee Disney pushing for major efforts to fix distribution and get comics to a new generation.
Universal officially stated that Disney’s purchase of Marvel “has no impact on our guest experience” and that the Marvel characters will remain in Universal parks.
I wonder if they’ll keep the MAX line and such. I know they’ve produced plenty of strong material in roundabout ways, but everybody is going to know Marvel = Disney now.
Dunno, but it doesn’t keep ABC from broadcasting stuff that isn’t strictly G-rated, does it?