Disney to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion US... Will Spiderman get therapy?

Greg Anos · 08-31-2009, 11:08 AM

Will Spidey get psychotherapy? Will Bruce Banner get suppressed? Will any more characters get to die and then get better? Will comics get special, even longer copyright than other forms of entertainment? Stay tuned, as goody-two-shoes Disney will be soon be owning all the neurotic and stressed out characters of Marvel.

Stan - my heart goes out to you......

Ralph

NY Times

Slite · 08-31-2009, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Will Spidey get psychotherapy? Will Bruce Banner get suppressed? Will any more characters get to die and then get better? Will comics get special, even longer copyright than other forms of entertainment? Stay tuned, as goody-two-shoes Disney will be soon be owning all the neurotic and stressed out characters of Marvel.

Stan - my heart goes out to you......

Ralph

Oh dear lord, please tell me it isn't so! Wolverine wearing mouse-ears and having to quit smoking his stoogies?

Why is there no justice in the world!

Greg Anos · 08-31-2009, 11:20 AM

I guess they solved their CEO succession problems. Just give the job to Magneto....

formerroadie · 08-31-2009, 12:20 PM

That is so wrong in so many ways.

ahammer · 08-31-2009, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Slite

Wolverine wearing mouse-ears and having to quit smoking his stoogies?

does not need to be true. seen lots of disney char that smoked in the past.

wonder what way disney will take this..

maybe in the next Spidey cartoon they can put in a talking spider voiced by chris rock.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 08-31-2009, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Stan - my heart goes out to you......

Yeah, I'm sure he's moaning all the way to the bank...

Anyway, the article points out that the existing movie rights to the characters haven't been transferred away from the rival studios of Fox, Paramount and Sony... and that happens to include Marvel's most popular characters. So Disney gets the rights to make movies of... what? Hawkeye? The Falcon? Moon Knight?

With Disney's prospects already fading, adding a bunch of B- and C-list superheroes to their fold won't accomplish much. They'd be better off making an Incredibles sequel...

JSWolf · 08-31-2009, 01:40 PM

Can we have a link to an article that does not require a login?

Greg Anos · 08-31-2009, 01:44 PM

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Disney...&asset=&ccode=

borax99 · 08-31-2009, 01:47 PM

Oh. No.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo

edembowski · 08-31-2009, 02:40 PM

[sarcasm]
This is just wonderful. I can't wait for the Mickey Mouse / Punisher cross-over event.
[/sarcasm]

hmgreen · 08-31-2009, 02:43 PM

Aw, c'mon. Think of where this can go!

Ariel and the Beast as the newest members of the X-Men (she even has red hair like Phoenix!).

Wolverine in the reboot of Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolverine?

The new Fantastic Four - the Incredibles (oh wait - that was the what they were modeled on).

Now for Time-Warner to buy DC - Flash vs Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck vs Green Lantern.

Oohhh - my head is spinning!

vivaldirules · 08-31-2009, 03:33 PM

I had heard that a contingent of low-life criminal types have been hanging out in the Hundred Acre Wood and so now Spidey can go help Pooh and Piglet and the gang.

edembowski · 08-31-2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by hmgreen

...
Now for Time-Warner to buy DC - Flash vs Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck vs Green Lantern.
...

You know, that's already happened. Thankfully, we haven't seen much of that other than marketing merchandise.

Steven Lyle Jordan · 08-31-2009, 03:37 PM

And every so often the entire Marvel Universe can be threatened by Hook and the Lost Boyz.

Greg Anos · 08-31-2009, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I had heard that a contingent of low-life criminal types have been hanging out in the Hundred Acre Wood and so now Spidey can go help Pooh and Piglet and the gang.

Ummm....Actually that was a Disney organized meet-and-greet for the two staffs....

08-31-2009, 11:08 AM	#1
Greg Anos Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,390 Karma: 35440406 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Pocketbook	Disney to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion US... Will Spiderman get therapy? Will Spidey get psychotherapy? Will Bruce Banner get suppressed? Will any more characters get to die and then get better? Will comics get special, even longer copyright than other forms of entertainment? Stay tuned, as goody-two-shoes Disney will be soon be owning all the neurotic and stressed out characters of Marvel. Stan - my heart goes out to you...... Ralph NY Times Last edited by Nate the great; 08-31-2009 at 12:22 PM.

08-31-2009, 02:43 PM	#11
hmgreen Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Sony PRS-505, -600, -900, Kindle 2, Touch, PW1 (all gone), PW2, Voyage	Think of the possibilities Aw, c'mon. Think of where this can go! Ariel and the Beast as the newest members of the X-Men (she even has red hair like Phoenix!). Wolverine in the reboot of Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolverine? The new Fantastic Four - the Incredibles (oh wait - that was the what they were modeled on). Now for Time-Warner to buy DC - Flash vs Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck vs Green Lantern. Oohhh - my head is spinning!

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