Re:Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment
by replicatorblog on Monday August 31, 2009 @10:46AM
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Don't forget that Pulp Fiction was produced while MiraMax was under Disney or just before they acquired them. They do a good job of keeping brands separate.
But they also declined to distribute Kids. Disney has a line, and it's likely before some stuff that Marvel does do.
Re:Disney to Acquire Marvel Entertainment
by steveplace on Monday August 31, 2009 @11:00AM
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You're assuming Disney doesn't produce/back adult titles.
Apocalypto comes to mind.
My only real concern with this is that Disney will decide that the more adult titles don't align with their core values.
Disney is a media company, and will make money any which way they can. They will only put mouse ear logos on family friendly stuff, but the worst that'll happen to Marvel properties is that The Avengers will be a Miramax film. (Miramax, virtually synonymous with hard-R movies like Kill Bill, is also a Disney subsidiary.)
Garth Ennis' run on the Punisher, for example, is extremely good, and extremely violent by necessity. I have a hard time imagining Disney allowing that to remain as it is.
After I passed my teen years, I'd pretty much written off Marvel for grown-up stories, favoring DC/Vertigo/Dark Horse, etc., as they seemed more willing to service the non-teen crowd. Marvel regained my business when they added their Max and Knights lines, which are pretty much all I'm buying of them lately.