https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-d ... ion-stock/
This happened yesterday and has been touted as one of the biggest deals ever made in the entertainment industry. It encompasses a ton of different TV/film/network/etc content, but the main bullet points for here are:
- Disney will be the undisputed top studio as they will own Star Wars, Marvel, and Avatar.
- They will also own X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool - so those characters will be able to appear in the MCU.
- They will have rights to distribute the original, unedited Star Wars trilogy.
- The deal will take 1-2 years to take effect.
- This has a lot of people worried that Disney is getting too big.
I see Fantastic Four probably getting rebooted yet again and will undoubtedly be the best version of it so far (not that there's much of a bar to clear there). Disney CEO said they are open to keeping Deadpool rated-R, and they would be fools to reboot that after the massive success of the Ryan Reynolds film. X-Men is the one I'm not really getting excited about at all. They will likely reboot it but it will never be as cool as the previous casts with Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Michael Fassbender, etc. Wolverine's story was concluded perfectly in Logan so I'm okay with Jackman being done. Thoughts?