View Full Version : Disney to buy Marvel Entertainment Co.
Mailman653
08-31-2009, 20:03
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/08/31/disney-marvel-entertainment-perfect-together/?icid=main|welcome|dl4|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinance.com%2F2009%2F08%2F31%2Fdisney-marvel-entertainment-perfect-together%2F
Good, bad? :book:
Good. Disney will do Marvel justice, and they have a big output.
I fear it might not have a good effect on the more mature commincs, no?
Louis VI the Fat
08-31-2009, 21:43
I don't care for the commix.
I do dread what this will mean for the Disney parks - which I hold to be sacred pieces of art. I don't want Spiderman there! Blegh!
*Stalks Moros to worship him*
Imagine, now Mary Jane will be SpiderWoman and she will be a singer!! Teh HORROR!
Veho Nex
09-01-2009, 02:19
Stocks skyrocketted. My teacher was kicking himself this morning for not buying marvel stock.
So I guess this means Marvel will start suing everybody.
Terrible news.
Imagine, now Mary Jane will be SpiderWoman and she will be a singer!! Teh HORROR!
Next week's exciting issue: The terrifying origin of Hannah Montana revealed and the return of Gwen Stacy!
Hosakawa Tito
09-01-2009, 17:40
It provides the Marvel characters with access to capital to make movies, especially the expensive high tech special effects needed. Hopefully Disney will stay with and develop the darker brooding nature of the Marvel's cast...don't sissify my X-Men, Fantasic Four, Thor etc...:stare:
Smart business move by Disney to gain market share, and Marvel was always on the financial razor's edge in movie making.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/Marvel-Poster.jpg
Hosa, that image is the property of The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies. Expect contact from their lawyers shortly. Also, please do not use the letter "x" in any of your posts from now on, as "x" is a trademarked and protected symbol of The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies.
Thank you in advance for your compliance.
Hosakawa Tito
09-01-2009, 18:22
Hosa, that image is the property of The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies. Expect contact from their lawyers shortly. Also, please do not use the letter "x" in any of your posts from now on, as "x" is a trademarked and protected symbol of The Walt Disney Company and Affiliated Companies.
Thank you in advance for your compliance.
I shoulda known better. Anyone who would bust Mickey has no scruples.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/mickeymouse.jpg
I fear it might not have a good effect on the more mature commincs, no?
Not when you consider that every movie Kevin Smith made until Clerks 2 were Disney movies. Or that Inglorius Basterds is the first Tarantino movie that isn't a Disney movie. Resivoir Dogs too. What I'm saying is that Disney owns Miramax studios. The company that released all those movies.
Imagine, now Mary Jane will be SpiderWoman and she will be a singer!! Teh HORROR!
Marvel turned Mary Jane into Spider-woman with no input from Disney.
Not when you consider that every movie Kevin Smith made until Clerks 2 were Disney movies. Or that Inglorius Basterds is the first Tarantino movie that isn't a Disney movie. Resivoir Dogs too. What I'm saying is that Disney owns Miramax studios. The company that released all those movies.
Marvel turned Mary Jane into Spider-woman with no input from Disney.
hmmm Tarantino doing a Marvel movie...
Mithrandir
09-01-2009, 22:57
https://img42.imageshack.us/img42/125/48184133.jpg
nuff said.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-01-2009, 23:13
Things just aren't the same with all these buyouts. Used to be you could watch monday night football and drink budweiser but now that disney owns ESPN and InBev owns Bud it's completely different. Or not.
Tratorix
09-02-2009, 03:41
I will now express the feelings of roughly 95% of the world at this news: Meh.
Seen the new Kingdom Hearts 3 previews?
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/08/disneykingdomhearts.jpg
Veho Nex
09-02-2009, 06:22
is that real?
is that real?
I wouldn't mind, and Kingdom Hearts is proof that Marvel is safe with Disney, japanese rpg with disney characters wth? I mean if they will allow this http://www.gamert.nl/nieuws/warren_spectors_steampunk_mick.html (text is in dutch it's about the artwork), a steampunk-horror disney-universe. Disney is a company with cojones, I like them.
Penny Arcade, as ever, are on the ball. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/2/)
Owen Glyndwr
09-02-2009, 21:36
I say as long as Disney doesn't try to manhandle Marvel's creative process too much, I'll be fine.
I feel that Marvel is finally hitting its stride with the superhero movie formula, and I think it'd be a shame to see it ruined by the geniuses that brought us such celebrities as The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato >.>.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-02-2009, 23:30
I say as long as Disney doesn't try to manhandle Marvel's creative process too much, I'll be fine.
I feel that Marvel is finally hitting its stride with the superhero movie formula, and I think it'd be a shame to see it ruined by the geniuses that brought us such celebrities as The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato >.>.
If they can create a movie that caters to its target demographic in the same way jonas brothers and hannah montana do then I'll be overjoyed.
ICantSpellDawg
09-03-2009, 04:09
This is what the Disney Boys channel is going to play in a loop. Everybody said Disney caters only to girls and their brainless interests? Problem solved.
Prussian to the Iron
09-03-2009, 17:18
Great, just great. Now we know that the next X-Men origins is going to star Hannah Montana. Lovely.
Though if they didn't actually touch Marvel, just gave it buttloads of money, that would be great. Even more awesome stuff!
But again: I do not want to see the Jonas Brothers playing something cool in Marvel. They stick to their obviously gay selves, and us Marvel-fans will stick to ourselves.
Again, Disney has completely changed it's style, no more musicals now we have the Finding Nemo's. That is a really bold move because having a Disney 'Classic' every year ugh (even though the Lion King was awesome), you find Disney logo's everywhere nowadays also on more serious and even violent stuff, and no I can't think of an example must have been too surprised to remember. This is a great thing for Marvel they will VERY most likely get a free hand, and a much bigger budget to throw around.
Again, Disney has completely changed it's style, no more musicals now we have the Finding Nemo's. That is a really bold move because having a Disney 'Classic' every year ugh (even though the Lion King was awesome), you find Disney logo's everywhere nowadays also on more serious and even violent stuff, and no I can't think of an example must have been too surprised to remember. This is a great thing for Marvel they will VERY most likely get a free hand, and a much bigger budget to throw around.
Miramax and Touchstone are, I believe, owned by Disney. Hell, they even made Kill Bill possible.
Disney isn't run by corporate morons, they're a competent film company that will definitely prove to be good to Marvel's huge portfolio of characters. I just hope some day that they snatch the Spiderman and X-Men film rights as soon as they expire with Sony and FOX.
And we all know what FOX did to the X-Men...
Prussian to the Iron
09-04-2009, 13:29
umm....I don't?????
And we all know what FOX did to the X-Men...
I'll never forgive Fox for what they did to Deadpool in the Wolverine movie. :no:
umm....I don't?????
See X-men Origins: Wolverine and you'll get a sense of what FOX did to the franchise. I personally don't know if Disney could do better, I'm just praying they don't do worse.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-04-2009, 22:52
I'll never forgive Fox for what they did to Deadpool in the Wolverine movie. :no:
See X-men Origins: Wolverine and you'll get a sense of what FOX did to the franchise. I personally don't know if Disney could do better, I'm just praying they don't do worse.
Well, to be honest most people don't care if they mess with characters. I liked the x-men series a lot.
Prussian to the Iron
09-04-2009, 22:54
yeah, i liked X-Men Origins: Wolverine alot. it was really cool. I mean, I've never read the comic books, so I don't really care about how true to it it is, but my dad used to and he really liked it too...
Well, to be honest most people don't care if they mess with characters. I liked the x-men series a lot.
Oh don't mistake my frustration for Wolverine as me writing off the entire series, in fact I like the first two X-men movies. But somewhere around "Last Stand" something really started to drop off. I felt the writing as a whole got a lot lazier in X-3, something they tried to fix with Wolverine at the cost of characterization or just simple under utilizing.* Whatever it was, it never got back on track imho.
yeah, i liked X-Men Origins: Wolverine alot. it was really cool. I mean, I've never read the comic books, so I don't really care about how true to it it is, but my dad used to and he really liked it too
Comic book movies are difficult because most of the characters have been around for so long. As such, you have an audience who expect those characters to be treated with the respect that should entail. Wolverine was not a bad movie but it just did some head-spinning things that go a little beyond the suspension of disbelief for me. :shrug:
*I take that back, the writing in Wolverine was much worse upon further reflection. But hey, at least it had good action sequences. I still wouldn't call it a "bad movie" I would just be hard pressed to recommend it. To each their own.
It wasn't what they did to the characters that annoyed me (I'm a DC guy), it was the pacing of the movie. There were a lot of scenes where they seemed like they didn't know when to move on. The plot was weak, some of the dialogue was corny, but the action was the one thing I enjoyed about the movie. So for me, this was mediocre at best.
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