By Aaron 8/31/2009
Disney bought Marvel Studios today for a whopping $4 billion. Does this mean the Marvel Films “logo” will become a flip-book of Disney characters? Unclear. But. There are some good things (Stan Lee liked it), some bad things, and some Disney things.
- The Good -
Theme parks. You know Disneyland? How sweet it was when you were a kid? And the inevitability that you will have to take your own kid there are great expense? Well what if there was also some sweet Marvel stuff there? Drop the kids off with Mickey Mouse and go web slinging!
So Disney owns this other studio that makes animated movies sometimes and they’re pretty good at it. Well what if they combined! Maybe the animated Pixar Fantastic Four will have better err…character actors. At least Pixar 3D will give the Fantastic Four more dimension.
- The Bad -
The Tinkerbell/Iron-Man Crossover. Tony Stark is greeted by a beautiful leggy blonde only seven inches tall! Fresh off a box office disaster the quick-hire Iron Man franchise taps Julia Roberts to reprise her Hook role. Actually, I’d see that movie. Here are some more crossovers and some funny Disney-Marvel “hookups”. My favorite is the one with Miley playing Marvel’s Dazzler, a hot singing beauty who takes off her clothes every couple of pages. I think I’d see that movie too.Miley is already doing press with The Blob too so she's a shoe in at Marvel.
Disney owns your kids. Seriously. The girls all want to be Disney princesses and now the boys are buying action figures from the same factory. Hmm…I wonder if the Snow White dress would fit Reed Richards…it would all make so much sense.
- The Disney -
Lets not panic. Disney does own ESPN (and that station called “ABC”). But ESPN has maintained an unblemished testosterone streak for pretty much ever (see Milwaukee’s Best ads). So Disney will leave those moneymakers alone. I wonder if Charles will have to stop using those Wolverine claws in TNT broadcasts.
Disney also owns Miramax, which has turned out thoroughly un-Disney movies for a decade. Here are some fanboy highlights: Clerks, The Crow, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Not too shabby.
I’m pretty excited. Especially if Miley slides into a skin tight superhero costume.
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