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Disney’s Robert Chapek To Oversee Marvel

Nerys Myk

Nerys Myk

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Disney’s Robert Chapek To Oversee Marvel

Bleeding Cool said:
But Disney state that Chapek will oversee a newly formed companywide consumer products organization, which will consolidate retail and licensing across Disney’s lines of business including Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Marvel, Media Networks, Interactive Media and Consumer Products.
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Licensed products sounds like t-shirts, caps and whathaveyous. Not sure if it will impact publishing content, though that might be Disney's next step.
 
I know it would never happen but how cool would it have been if they turned Marvel over to the guys at Pixar....
 
the G-man said:
I know it would never happen but how cool would it have been if they turned Marvel over to the guys at Pixar....
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I don't think cool at all. Pixar owns their movies and does a great job with them, there's no debating that. But that's their creations, they make up the rules and have fun with them.

Handing over Marvel characters and doing comics is a whole other ball game, and at least I wouldn't be on board for that.

A VERY slow, gradual takeover, maybe. But not an all at once "here you go, enjoy!".
 
I think Chapek's promotion has zero to do with Marvel publishing and 100% to do with Marvel licensing.
 
M'rk said:
the G-man said:
I know it would never happen but how cool would it have been if they turned Marvel over to the guys at Pixar....
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I don't think cool at all. Pixar owns their movies and does a great job with them, there's no debating that. But that's their creations, they make up the rules and have fun with them.

Handing over Marvel characters and doing comics is a whole other ball game, and at least I wouldn't be on board for that.

A VERY slow, gradual takeover, maybe. But not an all at once "here you go, enjoy!".
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I wasn't saying that Pixar should start writing the comics. I was thinking more along the lines of having people like John Lasseter and Brad Bird loosely overseeing the operation and maybe creating a top down mentality that eschewed cheap gimmicks and unoriginality for the kind of imaginative thinking that guys like Lee and Kirby brought to the company 50 years ago.

Though I admit that I'd kill for a Pixar FF movie, done Incredibles syle.
 
the G-man said:
M'rk said:
the G-man said:
I know it would never happen but how cool would it have been if they turned Marvel over to the guys at Pixar....
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I don't think cool at all. Pixar owns their movies and does a great job with them, there's no debating that. But that's their creations, they make up the rules and have fun with them.

Handing over Marvel characters and doing comics is a whole other ball game, and at least I wouldn't be on board for that.

A VERY slow, gradual takeover, maybe. But not an all at once "here you go, enjoy!".
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I wasn't saying that Pixar should start writing the comics. I was thinking more along the lines of having people like John Lasseter and Brad Bird loosely overseeing the operation and maybe creating a top down mentality that eschewed cheap gimmicks and unoriginality for the kind of imaginative thinking that guys like Lee and Kirby brought to the company 50 years ago.
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This is pretty much what the company is right now.
 
Altough I think the idea is proposterous that one company could "buy" up others...It would be an interesting maybe even a cool 3D cartoon (as much as I am unsure of the 3D concept on everything), As seeing a Todd McFarland's concept on Spiderman...putting the emphasis an the spider part of his agilities.
And wouldn't it be great...Keep Superman the way he is...family friendly ..instead this "DARK" Supes we are probably going to get in the new film.
 
the G-man said:
I wasn't saying that Pixar should start writing the comics. I was thinking more along the lines of having people like John Lasseter and Brad Bird loosely overseeing the operation and maybe creating a top down mentality that eschewed cheap gimmicks and unoriginality for the kind of imaginative thinking that guys like Lee and Kirby brought to the company 50 years ago.
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I'd love to see something like that happen. I miss Marvel.

Though I admit that I'd kill for a Pixar FF movie, done Incredibles syle.
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Incredibles was the best Marvel movie ever made. :rommie: It would be great to see them go that route in the future, instead of these live-action adaptations.
 
Yeah, I really don't understand why all DC and Marvel movie "have" to be done live action, especially some of the more lighthearted ones.

(And, yes, I realize they do direct to DVD movies. I'm talking about high quality CGI. In a world where Pixar and Dreamwork movies make money hand over fist, including some that are basically riffs on Marvel (Incredibles) and DC (Megamind) characters to begin, with it's infuriating that the real things are consigned exclusively to live action or DVD only)
 
C.E. Evans said:
I think Chapek's promotion has zero to do with Marvel publishing and 100% to do with Marvel licensing.
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How much would you bet on Disney licensing to influence storytelling to sell more product?

In this genre licensing makes far more money that the product is based on and Disney is a corporation first before it is anything else (exception may be Pixar but with Cars and Cars 2 i'm not so sure anymore :()
 
the G-man said:
(And, yes, I realize they do direct to DVD movies. I'm talking about high quality CGI. In a world where Pixar and Dreamwork movies make money hand over fist, including some that are basically riffs on Marvel (Incredibles) and DC (Megamind) characters to begin, with it's infuriating that the real things are consigned exclusively to live action or DVD only)
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My thoughts exactly. I just saw Megamind last week, and it was a great riff on 60s DC.
 
FPAlpha said:
C.E. Evans said:
I think Chapek's promotion has zero to do with Marvel publishing and 100% to do with Marvel licensing.
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How much would you bet on Disney licensing to influence storytelling to sell more product?

In this genre licensing makes far more money that the product is based on and Disney is a corporation first before it is anything else (exception may be Pixar but with Cars and Cars 2 i'm not so sure anymore :()
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But what's Disney going to do, exactly?

If Marvel doesn't have good stories, they won't get any more readers. That's the bottom line. Disney is not going to go in there and muck things up so that no one else reads the comic books. If they're going to dumb the stories down for younger readers, which some seem to fear, they'll quickly find that it's not going to work because most comic book buyers are older and are demanding more mature storylines.
 
I dunno. I don't even read current Marvel. But obviously some people do. There must be a reason?
 
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