Exactly. "Whataboutism" is a nice distraction, but doesn't apply to the problems being dealt with then.
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Exactly. "Whataboutism" is a nice distraction, but doesn't apply to the problems being dealt with then.
Sooo...Fantastic Four film next month, yes? That's how it works, right? 
Maybe, but I'm doubtful. They managed it with Spider-Man in Civil War but that was just one part inside of a larger production. They might have quietly arranged for someone to work on a script but that's as far as I can imagine them going, and that's assuming they were allowed to even do that.
Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons,
https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/1108134895799267329
https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/1108134895799267329
Some things Disney now owns (on top of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Muppets and the English-language rights to the works of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki):
Star Wars (the first film)
Batman '66
The Green Hornet '66
How I Met Your Mother
This Is Us
Burn Notice
White Collar
Modern Family
Fresh Off the Boat
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space
The Time Tunnel
Land of the Giants
The Fantastic Voyage
Doctor Doolitle
M*A*S*H
Manimal(!)
COPS
L.A. Law
Picket Fences
NYPD Blue
Chicago Hope
Murder One
Ally McBeal
Boston Public
Boston Legal
Alien Nation
Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel
Firefly
Dollhouse
The X-Files & Millennium
Alien
The Abyss
Titanic
Avatar
Predator
The Omen
The Fly
Planet of the Apes
Joy Ride & Wrong Turn
Independance Day
Home Alone
The Sound of Music
Mrs. Doubtfire
Speed
The Full Monty
There's Something About Mary
Office Space Borat
Ice Age
Minority Report
Anastasia
My Name is Earl & Raising Hope
The Simpsons & Futurama
Family Guy & American Dad
Bob's Burgers & Die Hard
The Orville
King of the Hill
24
New Girl
The Last Man on Earth
Glee
American Horror Story
American Crime Story
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Archer
Bones
Arrested Development
Prison Break
Malcolm in the Middle
Better Off Ted
Wonderfalls
Journeyman
Awake
Enlisted
The Grinder
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Terriers
and Making History *pours one out*
Star Wars (the first film)
Batman '66
The Green Hornet '66
How I Met Your Mother
This Is Us
Burn Notice
White Collar
Modern Family
Fresh Off the Boat
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space
The Time Tunnel
Land of the Giants
The Fantastic Voyage
Doctor Doolitle
M*A*S*H
Manimal(!)
COPS
L.A. Law
Picket Fences
NYPD Blue
Chicago Hope
Murder One
Ally McBeal
Boston Public
Boston Legal
Alien Nation
Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel
Firefly
Dollhouse
The X-Files & Millennium
Alien
The Abyss
Titanic
Avatar
Predator
The Omen
The Fly
Planet of the Apes
Joy Ride & Wrong Turn
Independance Day
Home Alone
The Sound of Music
Mrs. Doubtfire
Speed
The Full Monty
There's Something About Mary
Office Space Borat
Ice Age
Minority Report
Anastasia
My Name is Earl & Raising Hope
The Simpsons & Futurama
Family Guy & American Dad
Bob's Burgers & Die Hard
The Orville
King of the Hill
24
New Girl
The Last Man on Earth
Glee
American Horror Story
American Crime Story
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Archer
Bones
Arrested Development
Prison Break
Malcolm in the Middle
Better Off Ted
Wonderfalls
Journeyman
Awake
Enlisted
The Grinder
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Terriers
and Making History *pours one out*
Announcing our newest Disney Princess, Kaylee Frye.
I'm glad this is finally done. With a lot of the ld Avengers probably retiring after Endgame, there will be a lot of opportunities to bring in the X-Men and Fantastic Four. It would be nice to get at least one really good FF movie sometime before the turn of the next century, and that was never going to happen under FOX. Also, no more Simon Kinsberg on X-Men. Whatever blackmail he had on FOX executives that let him keep failing upward is no longer in play.
I'm curious as to what Disney will do with New Mutants. It doesn't even have a release date anymore. Hopefully they'll just stick it on Disney+. It would be a cool exclusive thing, even if its as terrible as it looks and ignores its source material as much as it seems to.
I'm curious as to what Disney will do with New Mutants. It doesn't even have a release date anymore. Hopefully they'll just stick it on Disney+. It would be a cool exclusive thing, even if its as terrible as it looks and ignores its source material as much as it seems to.
The funny thing with Kinberg (and Singer), if he'd just stopped with Days of Future Past it would have been a fantastic mike drop for the team-oriented X-Men movies with Logan then providing a great epilogue/franchise capper. Then they had to go and make two more mainline X-Men movies.
As for New Mutants, according to Vanity Fair's recent piece that anonymously interviewed various Fox executives and marketing people, it's most likely headed to direct-to-streaming.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/inside-hollywoods-disney-fox-freakout
It's probably headed to Hulu rather than Disney+ given that the reshoots were reportedly to make it even more horror focused and more in line with Josh Boone's original hard PG-13-to-R-rated vision. All the family-friendly stuff (Disney, Pixar, Muppets, Marvel, Star Wars, most of Fox's X-Men) is headed to Disney+, while all the older skewing stuff (Deadpool, Logan, Legion, Buffy, The X-Files, Alien, Predator, etc.) will be based at the now Disney-controlled Hulu.
Hulu works. I already have a Hulu subscription, so even though I want to get Disney+ when its available, more stuff on Hulu is great for me, too.
I hope they don't recast Deadpool. Reynolds isn't just perfect, he's essentially merged with the character at this point.
Although it would be funny if the Marvel Studios Deadpool started out with a recast Deadpool, the Fox version then shows up and kills him. He also needs to be really sad that Wolverine isn't played by Jackman and it just isn't the same when he meets him.
Although it would be funny if the Marvel Studios Deadpool started out with a recast Deadpool, the Fox version then shows up and kills him. He also needs to be really sad that Wolverine isn't played by Jackman and it just isn't the same when he meets him.
Same. Disney+ reportedly launches in September, and I'm getting it too. I was initially skeptical that they'd have enough content to justify them having both Disney+ and Hulu (and me subscribing to both), but their vast combined library of Disney and Fox IPs is more than enough to support both.
Having them separate is great incentive to get parents on board with Disney+ too. You don't have to worry about the youngins accidentally coming across something you don't want them to see yet. You can more or less plop them down in front of Disney+ and let them go nuts, dig in and geek out. They're about to make a fortune...again.
I know Disney+ is supposed to have the entire Disney film catalog, but I hope they include everything. I want to see those old episodes of Disneyland and all the shows Walt hosted, plus a bunch of stuff from the early days of the Disney Channel like Not Quite Human. The TV movie where Alan Thicke creates a robot son and sends him to school, then college and finally there's a robot Thicke and a kidnapping. The first two are charming, the third has a robot Alan Thicke.
That is my hope too. Imagine if all the Disney animated theatrical shorts were available to watch.
For all the new properties they now control, let’s not forget all the ones they already had and did little with. They never released The Muppet Show on DVD past the 3rd season. They never released the final 25 episodes the original Ducktales either. Just recently they repacked the 3 sets they did as 70 episodes, because it’s not the complete series.
Another example is the classic Zorro series. It was released in limited numbers as part of the Disney Treasures DVDs. Only at Disney stores. I regret not buying those!!! They are ridiculously over priced on EBay now.
I hope all that stuff is on Disney+. Not just The Muppet Show itself but all the Muppet tv specials which Jim Henson made which Disney owns.
I hopeful for old stuff to be available. But it’s important to remember how many properties they have ignored for decades. Just because they own Fox franchises now not mean instant sequels or reboots. They will go through prolonged development like everything in Hollywood.
They are doing a new Muppets series, so I'd imagine that they'd include the older stuff. They couldn't have the Muppet Family Christmas because the Fraggles and Sesame Street characters are featured. The Hensons still own Fraggle Rock and The Children's Television Workshop owns Sesame Street. It's a shame because it's one of their best and actually has JIm in it.
And it was written by Jerry Juhl, showrunner of Fraggle Rock and Seasons 2-5 of The Muppet Show and co-writer (with Muppet Show: Season 1 showrunner Jack Burns) of The Muppet Movie. It'd be really cool if Bob Iger could somehow work out a joint custody sorta deal with A Muppet Family Christmas like he did with Sony's Spider-Man. It's such an important piece of the legacy of all three properties and the companies that own them.