Spiderman vs. Mickey Mouse?

[javasaurus]

In the news today, Disney is acquiring Marvel, which means that we could see Mickey and Spidey in the same entertainment! Probably won't happen, but you never know!

I'm just hoping a new superhero themed park will be added to the Disney properties in Florida.

And I wonder if this will force a name change for Universal Studio's Hulk roller coaster.

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

*sigh* - I'd actually wished they'd bought DC instead. Marvel has (with the exception of the first Hulk film and ANY attempt to bring Captain America to the screen), generally already a good reputation and record for Story.

Story, on the other hand, is what has killed most DC projects over the last decade (Batman Begins/Dark Knight being exceptions, but that had to reboot and recover from the 80s/90s Batman's poor last two showings).

Having a stronger story department can help in a BIG way from the constant interference from the marketing and management execs that ruin a story and by extension the film. As Disney has finally (thanks to Lasseter) purged such interference from much of its upcoming output, the interference that started hurting the late 90s projects, it would be nice to see someone purge it from DC's films.

[to get an idea about how bad it got in DC, see if you can find Kevin Smith's [Jersey Girl, Dogma, Clerks] stories about his script for Superman and the Warner executive's absolute commitment to bringing in a giant spider for the climax. that exec finally got his giant spider: the mechanical one in Wild Wild West that effectively killed the film, because with such silliness, nothing else in the film could be taken seriously and it became a farce of the original rather than an embracing of it.]

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

I strongly prefer the DC lineup of heroes, and I'd love to have seen Disney go that route as well. But Warner already owns DC, and I can't imagine they'd sell. Marvel was it's own company, and very successful recently, which made them very ripe for the picking.

[orkney.livejournal.com]

I at first thought you meant Washington DC. Now there's a thought.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, given their first hotel is being built in the National Harbor area, it may happen someday...then there's NOTHING to stop "Disney's America" from being built...[insert sound="laugh" type="evil"/]

[orkney.livejournal.com]

Marvel is building a hotel? Will there be a spiderman clinging to the outside?