Bollocks-disney buy Marvel!

[ch750536]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8230504.stm

"Entertainment giant Walt Disney is to buy Marvel Entertainment in a shares and cash deal valued at $4bn (£2.5bn)."

ffs!

 

[kained&able]

well thats probabley going to be a bit shit.


dave

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

With the exception of the X Men films, most Marvel adaptations on the big screen have made Disney look dark (Spiderman, Fantastic Four, etc)

 

[DotCommunist]

The relentless comodifying beast has acquired another scalp

 

[weltweit]

Does not bother me tbh..

Disney already own Pixar, should expect some of the Marvel charachters to come out in screen animation now, as a result of this.

What is surprising to me is the price!

 

[krtek a houby]

Superheros Enslaved!!!

By the evil Disney Empire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8230504.stm

Distressing. I always liked Marvel's maverick approach.

Still, if Disney can spawn Pixar, maybe it's not all bad...

 

[gsv]

With the exception of the X Men films, most Marvel adaptations on the big screen have made Disney look dark (Spiderman, Fantastic Four, etc)

FF was dark??!? Bambi was fucking darker!

I don't imagine it'll make much difference to Marvel comics content. OTOH it'll either bolster Marvel's new production wing or put the brakes on Marvel films comng out under anyone else's aegis.

GS(v)

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Say, Grant Morrison's X-Men. Would that happen under Disney?

Well, I dunno. I suppose we'll see won't we?

 

[kained&able]

darkest marvel film wa the driectors cut version of dare devil.

That had its moments.

FF was dark??!? Bambi was fucking darker!

thats what he was saying.


dave

 

[krtek a houby]

I'd like to see Disney tackle Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles"...

GM had problems with DC when they refused to print a comment about Uncle Walt...

From wiki

"Later in the series the names of people and organizations were simply blacked out, much to Morrison's dismay. DC had one line that originally read "Walt Disney was a shit" blacked out at the suggestions of their lawyers; many of these examples of censorship were restored when reprinted in trade paperback"

 

[cybertect]

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

FF was dark??!? Bambi was fucking darker!

I don't imagine it'll make much difference to Marvel comics content. OTOH it'll either bolster Marvel's new production wing or put the brakes on Marvel films comng out under anyone else's aegis.

GS(v)

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Apart from X Men, Marvel films have made Disney films look dark

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

darkest marvel film wa the driectors cut version of dare devil.

That had its moments.

thats what he was saying.

dave

I must watch that DC

 

[army_of_one]

AAAaaargh!!!!!!!!

I can't believe this!

A little bit of me just died inside.
And I'm not even a hardcore fan!

Marvels been bought by a huge house that will have no idea how to nurture it the way it deserves. If you are a fan you can say goodbye to what creative story arcs they do have, as well as art work. Say hello to Spidey and Wolverine next to Space Moutain and that stupid silver golf ball at Epcot.

[shudder]I'll be sick now.[/shudder]










So much for the movies saving their asses! I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

 

[yield]

Bollocks-disney buy Marvel!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Merged.

 

[gsv]

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Apart from X Men, Marvel films have made Disney films look dark

Apparently I was reading backwards

GS(v)

 

[cliche guevara]

Don't Universal have loads of Marvel rides in their Orlando theme park?

 

[Chz]

I always liked Marvel's maverick approach.

What? Marvel were the Disney of the comic world. It's not like Disney bought Dark Horse or 2000AD.

 

[fogbat]

Marvel were such an independent and risk-taking comic book company until now, too...

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

By the evil Disney Empire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8230504.stm

Distressing. I always liked Marvel's maverick approach.

Still, if Disney can spawn Pixar, maybe it's not all bad...

erm disney didn't spwan pixar they bought it up and then contractually forced them to do the second toy story and then most of them left leaving disney with just the name and as has been show have run the reputation on the company into the ground ever since with things like monsters inc and the like....

 

[army_of_one]

erm disney didn't spwan pixar they bought it up and then contractually forced them to do the second toy story and then most of them left leaving disney with just the name and as has been show have run the reputation on the company into the ground ever since with things like monsters inc and the like....

Which is exactly what is probably going to happen to Marvel. Some mid-level vp is going get a bright idea about how to 'improve' the titles(squeezing out an extra half point from the stock to boot). The good artists and storytellers will get fed up and leave for some other publisher.

I don't think Disney knows any other model.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Which is exactly what is probably going to happen to Marvel. Some mid-level vp is going get a bright idea about how to 'improve' the titles(squeezing out an extra half point from the stock to boot). The good artists and storytellers will get fed up and leave for some other publisher.

I don't think Disney knows any other model.

yup tho it means a nice shiney new publisher made up of all the old marvel guys who were any cop at some point

 

[army_of_one]

yup tho it means a nice shiney new publisher made up of all the old marvel guys who were any cop at some point

True. But it'll be so sad to see it die like that.

 

[andy2002]

Interesting article here about some of the issues Disney and Marvel might face going forward...
www.bleedingcool.com/2009/08/31/the-ten-questions-marvel-and-disney-have-to-answer/

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

i wonder how this will effect the comics on psp system marvel and snoy were working on and whether this will now be launched next month as planned... other whether greedy disnee will once again stilfe it as part of their ongoing war with sony...

 

[Chz]

erm disney didn't spwan pixar they bought it up and then contractually forced them to do the second toy story and then most of them left leaving disney with just the name and as has been show have run the reputation on the company into the ground ever since with things like monsters inc and the like....

That's not quite right, either. Pixar has retained most of its staff since the Disney buyout, which was in 2006 - a good 8 years after the Toy Story 2 fiasco kicked off, and considerably after the award-winning Monsters Inc. The head of Pixar is Disney's largest single shareholder now, and a prominent member on the board of directors (when he's not getting liver transplants and running Apple). Yes, Disney were cunts (most of the people from that time are gone now). But to say Pixar is a shell is fallacious, considering that most people feel the average quality of their pictures has gone up. (I think we all just have to accept that Cars and its upcoming sequel are made for little kids first and foremost.)

Edit to add: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/9/2/

 

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