The Walt Disney Company has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock. Here are the press releases from Disney and Marvel. ‘Nuff said.
Disney should keep in mind “with great power comes great responsibility”.
via New York Times
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This is very interesting. Considering that it is Marvel characters that feature in a number of Universal Studios rides, I’m wondering what this buyout will mean for that.
I have a generic feeling of dismay over this news. My husband is still asleep and I am having this sort of Charlie and the Chocolate factory moment where I don’t want to wake him up and tell him that the Disney corporation now owns his revered Iron Man. Let him dream a little longer…
Can’t wait for Disney Baby Wolverine!
God, there goes the franchise…
And Sarah, my son will react the same way. It will be a facepalm moment for him.
Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment? My action movies will look goofy. When I saw the movie Terminator 2, I was excited because I knew Hollywood had the technology to do Marvel Comics superheroes movies to capture the drawings of the comic books.
In the past Marvel movies looked fake and unrealistic insulting the intelligence of dreamers showing a movie like Bill Bixby turning into Lou Ferrigno instead of the Incredible Hulk or Spiderman using rope instead of a people size spider webbing.
The Terminator movie was a turn off. I really did not want to see Arnold walking around naked. But the Liquid Metal Man was a real super villan in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the way Hollywood made the movie was exciting to the imagination. I was writing that Terminator 2 should be the model for STAN LEE to do blockbuster movies with Spiderman, the Hulk, Iron Man, X Men and the Avengers. But Nick Fury (Agent of Shield) should stay a white guy like the Kingpin in Daredevil.
Do Luke Cage (Hero for Hire) before he assumed another Power Man if you want Black kids going to the movie, but without the 1970s stereotype ghetto talk. Surely the black ops military families are not that intimidating. So what if they were covert Vietnam Veterans related to former American Presidents.
Imagine Disney adding their conception to the Marvel drama. Touchtone Pictures might be able to handle the storyline, but capture and keep the realistic fantasy of the drawings in the Marvel Comics comic books but not with the four finger cartoon, even if I love Minnie Mouse.
Daniel Escurel Occeno
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