Its been announced that the Mouse Kingdom is buying mighty Marvel in a combined cash/shares deal worth around a cool 4 billion dollars. Over on his Twitter Paul Cornell seemed pretty pleased that it should put Marvel on a sounder financial footing and exclaiming “I’m working for Disney!”
“Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses… This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney’s tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world,” Marvel chief executive Ike Perlmutter commenting on the massive deal.
(“it’s worth how much?!?!?” Peter Parker tries to add up what his Marvel shares could be worth)
Its a huge deal with comments from the media and business pundits appearing mostly positive about the deal. What I want to know is, given comics history of crossovers and team-ups will we see Mickey and Minnie ousting Norman Osborn and taking over Dark Reign? Will the aforementioned Paul Cornell send Pete Wisdom into a Seven Dwarves crossover? More seriously I wonder what it means for Marvel’s booming movie output, both live action and the popular animated features – would they now go through Disney or even Pixar’s animation teams, for instance? (via the BBC)
September 1st, 2009 at 1:42 am
Wow, I hope they don’t clean up any of the Marvel violence or cussing that we have all grown to love.