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Disney owns Marvel

AnonusAnonus
edited 2014-04-07 05:23:12 in General
Yes I know I talk about this all the time but seriously such characters, much exploitation

There's a lot of value there and Disney got it all...

Disney, Disney, Disney
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  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    The fuck are you talking about.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    The fuck you talking about.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I guess AU feels Disney isn't doing enough with the Marvel characters? I know Marvel has been bad at marketing in the past, but this time around, at least the movies are good...
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Captain America 2 made 35 mil on the first week, I think they're doing fine.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I'm talking about my envy of Disney
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Well, you should've bought Marvel when you had the chance
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I wasn't media moguling in 2009
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck you talking about.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Fuck you talking about fuck you.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    it's so weird when people respond to barely-coherent threads I made at 3 in the morning
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    fuck you talking about, fuck you talking about fuck you, talking about fuck you.
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2014-04-07 19:27:14
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    what would you even do with Marvel, that's what i want to know

    i figure i'd be like, 'shit, do i have to do anything?  quick, someone who knows what the hell they're doing take this thing off my hands'

    but no really, if you owned Marvel, what would you do with it?  could be an interesting question
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well, I would run around its offices dressed up as Iron Man, I guess

    But other than that I don't really know
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    or you could be Batman...er, wait...he's a DC
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yes, he's a DC

    I find it amusing how Disney actually bought Marvel on its own volition, but Warner Bros. kind of lucked into DC (Kinney National Company bought DC in 1967 and Warner Bros. in 1969)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Washington, MV 20036
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck you talking.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    a boot.
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Tachyon said:

    what would you even do with Marvel, that's what i want to know

    i figure i'd be like, 'shit, do i have to do anything?  quick, someone who knows what the hell they're doing take this thing off my hands'

    but no really, if you owned Marvel, what would you do with it?  could be an interesting question


    I'd impose huge, sweeping changes to every comic series in a controversial bid to attract new readers. Most likely, I'd wind up being fired by the board of directors within a decade, and Marvel's editor-in-chief would immediately revert all my changes.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    If I owned Marvel I'd permanently kill off one superhero every month.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^Board of directors?

    Is your version of Marvel an independent company again?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-04-07 23:35:06
    If I owned Marvel I'd ask the writers to make an intensely political* series featuring some classic superheroes as well as maybe some new ones**, and featuring a struggle within at least the main characters of idealism vs. cynicism regarding what one can and can't do about the world

    * political would be things like, aiding or breaking up protests, toppling or preventing the toppling of regimes, exposing bad business and governance practices or preventing their exposure, etc., and probably fighting other superheroes in the process (and make sure that the antagonists always have motives other than "being jerks")

    ** new ones might be needed because i'd demand that there be an equal number of male and female superheroes and i'd furthermore demand that the female ones have similar roles as the male ones as opposed to being cast as sex objects and love interests***

    *** and a good idea would be to actually feature NO romance focus at all

    also, the tie-in game for this would be a metroidvania game where you recruit more and more superheroes with various abilities that can allow you to access more locations in the map, which is some supervillain's base
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Marvel's board of directors, Disney's board of directors, my imaginary company's board of directors, whatever. The point is, I'd try to shake things up and then get blamed for running the Marvel brand into the ground.
  • TitleNameTitleName
    edited 2014-04-08 00:24:37
    If I owned Marvel, I'd be kicked out within the week. :V

    Also some Silver Age goodness here and there.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    y'all focus only on the comic side of things

    you're ignoring movies, cartoons, etc.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i'd commission an avant-garde Spiderman ballet
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck talking.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I'd make them do a comics adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    in which spiderman is killed by a man in a duck outfit

    this will be his irreversible, cannonical demise.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    but naney

    think of the moychandising moychandising moychandising
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:

    y'all focus only on the comic side of things


    you're ignoring movies, cartoons, etc.
    Wait, wait, wait, wait....

    Marvel makes movies? Since when?
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i dont give a fuck about merchandising. im gonna drive the whole thing into the ground as hard and as fast as possible, have fun doing it and sell all my stock options beforehand.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    actually you're right this whole pretending to be a CEO is fun

    im currently imagining driving quite a few franchises into the ground and i must say it's quite an entertaining thing to think about
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2014-04-08 00:56:01
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ^^^Since Iron Man

    It wouldn't surprise me if the MCU was one of the key factors in their sale to Disney, else they'd be taking a bath on their movies given their huge budgets and thin profit margins (though P&A was being handled by the distributors, they'd be in the same boat as DreamWorks Animation)
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Speaking seriously?

    Stop trying to constantly make new movies of series that already have good ones. Sam Raimi's first Spiderman film was fine, and the second wasn't really that bad, and they actually kept everyone fairly in character without that whole "catching 'bad guys' justifies injurious collateral damage" narrative that modern superhero flicks like so much (which Spiderman was never about anyway, dumbasses).

    Also adapt some more obscure, interesting things that have actual movie potential despite low name recognition, although DC has way more of those that I can think of.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    naney why do you hate popular things so much
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Anonus said:

    but naney


    think of the moychandising moychandising moychandising
    Fuck merchandising so much.

    Unless there's actual fun and artistry in the merch in question, I don't want to think or be associated with it. Cheap garbage may sell, but I don't want to sell it.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i want to make a last die hard movie

    it has no dialogue and is set to Morton Feldman's 2nd string quartet
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Anonus said:

    naney why do you hate popular things so much

    because they are emblematic of a world that bores and frustrates me to tears.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    plus they're crap a lot of the time
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yon Assassin said:

    i want to make a last die hard movie


    it has no dialogue and is set to Morton Feldman's 2nd string quartet
    I would love to set an art movie to one of Feldman's long pieces. Maybe something with a lot of reeeeeeally long takes and oddball sound design. Although a silent but visually intense action movie would be pretty cool, too.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i will sell action figures

    they will all be perfectly square lumps of wax, painted with the colours associated with the hero, in a small corrugated cardboard box with the name of the hero written upon them in sharpie.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yon Assassin said:

    i will sell action figures


    they will all be perfectly square lumps of wax, painted with the colours associated with the hero, in a small corrugated cardboard box with the name of the hero written upon them in sharpie.
    That is the most Hirst-tacular move possible.

    Other than, you know, doing that dead-shark-in-a-tank thing, but putting the shark in a Wolverine costume.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I think I would enjoy Naney's version of the Marvel Universe
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I might, too.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Sredni Vashtar said:

    Also adapt some more obscure, interesting things that have actual movie potential despite low name recognition, although DC has way more of those that I can think of.
    Plastic Man would make for a pretty good movie. It's still a shame the cartoon pilot starring him never got off the ground. It was pretty cool.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Avant garde Marvel

    not sure what to make of this
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Section42L said:

    Sredni Vashtar said:

    Also adapt some more obscure, interesting things that have actual movie potential despite low name recognition, although DC has way more of those that I can think of.
    Plastic Man would make for a pretty good movie. It's still a shame the cartoon pilot starring him never got off the ground. It was pretty cool.
    inorite
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