Disney to buy Marvel!

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Disney to Buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 Billion - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

Will we be getting Pixar X-men or Hannah Magneto?

 

[Wombat]

Personally, I think Disney is simply looking to have something that is really making money aside from Pixar -- the Marvel movies are bovines of great specie.

 

[Truth Seeker]

holy cheese!!!​

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am not sure if it is a good deal, Marvel has worked well as a production company, selling different titles out, not sure if Disney will even address some titles that would get produced otherwise.

 

[Klaus]

Disney claims to treat Marvel with the same "off-hands" approach as Pixar, i.e. let the experts do what they do best.

If this moves Marvel towards making its characters and comics a little more kid-friendly, I'm all for it.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I hope they don't water down Marvel. If Disney does anything to Marvel I hope it's confined to creating more of a "kidified" imprint that does Disney related material. Also, seeing several of my least favorite writers and artists leave (especially those who massacred the X-Verse and as certain artist who is known for making 15 year old female character stripper-tastic as part of creative's force feeding of her as the new Kitty Pryde).

 

[El Mahdi]

Aw, Hell! There goes the Neighborhood!

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[Ed_Laprade]

Ah, I can see it now-

Coming soon from Disney: Wolverine vs. The Punisher!

Yeah, right.

 

[Samnell]

Ah, I can see it now-

Coming soon from Disney: Wolverine vs. The Punisher!

Yeah, right.

Disney operates several subsidiaries that produce entertainment geared towards adults. I think there's minimal risk that they'll put their name on the comics, though they might start selling Donald Duck comics through a Marvel imprint. (Marvel did this with other kiddie properties back in the 80s.)

Given Disney's legacy of indifferent management and uninspired leadership, I'm sure any recent Marvel editorial staff would not have much culture shock. Also considering that Disney's flagship brand is mostly about character licensing and selling past products, it's in more or less the same business Marvel is.

 

[Krug]

Well I guess it does make sense. Marvel can focus on creating, get financing for its movies, and the deal seems to be the 'hands-off' deal that Pixar has.