No I am not saying the quality will necessarily go down but I see can Disney trying to appeal their movies to more kids in general rather than comic book fans. Now you mentioned Pirates, that concept was based on Disney's own intellectual property, a theme ride without any source material. The work by Pixar is excellent but still aimed at family oriented audiences. Look comic books fans are finally getting to see some really good movies like DK, Watchmen etc...only because the directors took their source material very seriously and created a movie with the true feeling of a comic book or graphic novel. Nolan took a lot of heat from studio exec for giving the story a very dark crime drama.Even Snyder took a huge leap in defining the genre by going darker more viceral tone. Now my only worry is that Disney may not greenlight some of the more mature and darker types of comics instead just put out the lighter popcorn action flicks that most studios are doing these days.
Robert Downey, Jr. to be digitally replaced by Miley Cyrus in the next Iron Man. Don Cheadle to be replaced by a non-threatening white teenager. Don't ask how, it's gonna happen.
I always thought Marvel made the worst of the Comic movies anyways. The only good ones they've made are Spider-Man (1), Iron-Man, and maybe the first X-Men. DC on the other hand is doing the right things with their franchises.
+ Marvel Civil War will have a song and dance number after Captain America is killed. + The Punisher will adopt Batman's morals, mainly never attempt to kill his opponents or enemies and only using guns to shoot robots and inanimate objects. + The Hulk will not lash out in rage as much and comply to the demands of Gen. Ross, and accept going to a high-security military prison for his destruction . . . crimes, while adopting a new furry bunny friend called Moppy to make him a much happier, gamma radiation induced, (oversized) green guy. + Miley Cyrus will (star) voice Rogue in an upcoming animated X-Men movie/cartoon series. + Magento will not be a bitter, radical, murderous, psychopathic mutant terrorist, but simply a misunderstood megalomaniac who wants to rule the war for no apparent reason. + Howard the Duck = Donald Duck, no more crude jokes, no more smoking and drinking, or strange anthropomorphic creature meets human for a somewhat implied bestiality relationship (oh, Disney has already done that).
Actually, guys, think about this: What if Disney were to now hand over some Marvel movie to .... PIXAR ? Oh my... Live action is fine, but some things... I mean... just... oh my. Can you imagine if Pixar put their strength behind an actual genuine serious Marvel story like Green Lantern, or finally doing an X-Men movie the way it should have been done all along? This may be a very very good thing, fellas.
Pixar and Disney are one-and-the-same now. That's why, though I understand the concerns here from comic book fans, I wouldn't be nearly as worried about it as I would if Eisner were still in charge at Disney. Live action or otherwise, the guys at Pixar understand creative integrity. I just think there's an entirely different culture at Disney now who would appreciate these concerns as much as many of the rest of us.
The upside that I'm hoping will come out of this is that, with all the properties being owned by the same company, it may eventualy lead to a big cohesive Marvel Animated Universe. The DCAU (made possible because WB owned all of DC) was so much fun it would really be cool to see someone try something like that again.
Y'all are jumping to some obvious conclusions but what does this really mean for Marvel? For example I am pretty sure Sony or whoever has Spiderman movies on lock until Spiderman 6. Will Disney use the characters? Or can they also continue to license out individual characters? Does Disney have the ability to stifle Marvel's creativity in any way?
Um, where did you hear that? Neither of these sound remotely true. Studio execs do mess movies up all the time, but these 2 specific examples of yours aren't true based on what I've read. As for Disney, I'm sure they will make mistakes with the properties, but so did Marvel and other companies that acquired film rights to characters. But for now, the whole reason for this isn't to make marvel appeal to more people or the Disney audience, it's to give Disney something that appeals to young men and boys because they have lost that audience with alot of their recent properties being aimed at tween and teen girls.
Pixar and some guys from Marvel have already had preliminary "ideas" meetings about what they can do together, so a Pixar Marvel movie WILL HAPPEN, just a matter of time.
Crap you're right.. I was just trying to think of something that Pixar would really be able to get wild with, my bad.
Is it sad that one of my first thoughts about this deal was how it would affect future Kingdom Hearts games?
