Just saw this on
aintitcool. Looks like Disney just dropped a cashbomb on Marvel, and scooped-up pretty much all of their characters in a merger. The most interesting question this raises is, who owns the film rights? Marvel licensed X-men, Fantastic Four, and Daredevil (amongst others), to Fox. Spider-Man is distributed by Colombia / Sony.
Now, Disney owns the characters, so does this mean Disney owns the rights to the films based on said characters again? After the way X-Men and Daredevil were manhandled by Fox, this might not be a bad thing.
This probably won't change much on the gaming front, but it does open some interesting ideas. Since Disney owns Marvel, does that mean further intercompany cross-promotion of games, a'la Kingdom Hearts? The thought of Spider-man hanging out with Jack Sparrow and Sora seems both hilariously Deviant Art-esque, but at the same time, a surefire money generator.
Thoughts?
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As a huge Marvel Comics fan this floors me, gonna be interesting to see how all this goes.
Also the first 2 X-Men films were amazing, I dunno what your saying about Fox Manhandling them.
D:<
Not necessarily. Disney is a big company with fingers in a lot of pies, and they're not all Donald Duck-flavored. This is the company that owns The Nightmare Before Christmas, and produced 1 1/2 good Pirates of the Caribbean films (which is far more than anyone really expected). They should be smart enough to know not to screw with what works. The knee-jerk reaction is Mickey Mouse being kidnapped by Doctor Doom (which shouldn't be a problem, and would probably be the greatest comic book ever), but I don't feel that this is how that's going down.
This really probably won't be an different from Warner Bros. partnership with DC. Every DC movie is released by Warner bros, and Warner Bros. interactive usually has something to do with the game releases (not sure if that's the case with Arkham Asylum, though).
They fucked Bryan Singer over by not allowing him to do Superman and come back for X3 (lots of politics behind that), and went with Brett Ratner for the third film (aka the EVERYBODY GETS RANDOM POWERS show). The less said about Wolverine the better, but it's pretty well-known that the studio did a lot of screwing around with the production/budget (see: really terrible CGI claws, also Wolvering BOXING the Blob). So, yes, they manhandled the franchise. They had two great movies, and two terrible ones. An even split for what should have been a sure-fired super-franchise is a bit of a screw-up, don't you think?
Also, Howard the Duck is retconned into the McDuck family tree!
As for comics? I only read old ones anyway.
The answer is, of course, "so cash".
it was a wet dream by the way.
If that's the case, there's really nothing to worry about on the comics-end of things. I'm getting the vibe that Marvel, while living on Mouse House property, will be occupying its own guest house instead of shaking up under the main roof.
They didn't really care much for the A Nightmare Before Christmas game (who did?!) and usually that's a money making brand. I always saw Kingdom Hearts as a game where Square Enix bought the likeness rights and Disney just counted the cash, rather than a true experimental collaboration.
I've never seen Disney that interested in anything unless it really makes money for them, as we saw with Pixar after Toy Story 2.
I am not totally worried about how Disney weilds the motherfucking infinity gauntlet now but--- WAIT WHAT, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK
Also, also also also... what will happen to The Avengers movie? The... new Iron Man? Iron Man was the first Marvel movie I saw that felt like total kickassery in a long time.
@Char
I CANT GET IT OFF NOW ASSHOLE