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Bring the rat down!
While I’m avoiding Star Wars spoilers like [INSERT SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE AVOIDS], a reminder of who’s smiling all the way to the bank.
Get ready for The Force Awakens this weekend, Rogue One next year, Episode VIII in 2017, a Han Solo film in 2018, Episode IX in 2019, and so on until it stops being profitable.
Disney is on track to dominate Hollywood with Pixar animated versions of ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel characters.
According to reports, Walt Disney Chairman Bob Iger is planning on making Disney stockholders a ton of money. Variety reports that Disney executives are planning to to use their newly purchased animation company, ‘Pixar’ and create several Marvel and Star Wars movies.
The Burbank studio’s…
Alrighty then.
I just read that story and the article linked in the “reports” link, and that Project Casting story is erroneous and completely wrong.
Here’s what happened:
- Today (April 22, 2015), Disney presented its upcoming slate at CinemaCon, essentially a convention for theater owners. 2015 is the first year Disney had products from all three of their biggest acquisitions of the last 10 years (Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm), and they made a big presentation about what they have planned for the foreseeable future.
- Disney isn’t planning any animated Star Wars or Marvel films from Pixar, which has been under Disney control since 2006 (hardly “newly bought”). The three units aren’t working on any collaborations together and are ran autonomously within the Disney empire. You’ll get Star Wars comics from Marvel, but you won’t get a Star Wars film from Pixar.
- While they have revealed a huge slate of films for the remainder of the year as well as the next two years, again, the only Pixar films announced and mentioned in the Variety link were this year’s Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, while Pixar’s 2016 and 2017 films, Finding Dory, and Toy Story 4 respectably, were mentioned in passing. The only Marvel movies mentioned were the ones we already knew about in that same summer 2015 to summer 2017 slate: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Civil War, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2. The only Lucasfilm productions mentioned in that slate were The Force Within, Rogue One, and Episode VIII. You also have a pair of Reliance Dreamworks films in that slate too, Bridge of Spies and Ghost in the Shell. Disney’s doing a lot.
But no Pixar-produced Lucasfilm and Marvel productions yet.
Muppet Babies.
A Marvel production featuring the Muppets with Star Wars and Indiana Jones clips in the opening sequence.
Now all owned by Disney.
Corporate synergy before they became one company. And it only took them 28 years to get there.
There are two brothers. Not literal brothers, mind you, though they do share some of the same bloodlines.
Similar yet different.
Symmetrical yet unbalanced.
Old yet vibrant.
Allegiances and alliances forged between these two brothers are rare, but when they notice each other's actions, they react.
They forge the new mythology. Gods. Angels. Soldiers. Warriors. Defenders. Avengers. Crusaders. Knights. Guardians. Watchers.
Some are elevated to great heights. Others obscured by the annals of time, but not forgotten.
Red and blue.
Blue and red.
These brothers shape us, mold us, build us up.
Some of us are driven to be better than them.
But they have stood for almost a century. And they'll probably outlive all of us.
And yet, they are us. Our hopes and dreams. What we see ourselves to be. What we don't want to become. What we aspire to become.
Blue and red.
Red and blue.
Lively and animated.
You're either one or the other. At least that's what the brothers want us to choose.
Most of us are both. We like and dislike what they do. But when we like something they do, we really love it.
Red and Blue.
Blue and Red.
