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Rian Johnson and his producing partner Ram Bergman are expert PR grifters. Don’t pay attention to anything they say publicly.

I applauded the hiring of Abrams in early 2013 and thanked God that Lucas wasn’t involved. I agreed with every single decision Iger made during that time period. Then the leaks about script issues and various infighting between the different creatives started to leak out, then a few months later...

Darth Maul and Darth Talon were the main villains in the George Lucas sequel trilogy storyline. Maul was hiding in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Coruscant was mostly abandoned after some type of destructive event that left the planet covered in smoke and with most of the buildings destroyed.

Correct. There was a power struggle with JJ Abrams and Arndt lost, much to the dismay of Lucasfilm executives.

How much of that content went straight to Disney+?

Disney cannot “flood their service with an endless amount of crap”. They don’t have the economic firepower to compete with Netflix in streaming. It costs a fortune to achieve the kind of scale that Netflix has.

Adolescence is the best show released this year and will sweep the Emmys. It’s a Netflix show. It also did huge numbers from a viewership standpoint.

Quality doesn’t really matter. NCIS and The Walking Dead were the highest rated scripted shows ten years ago on television and both are mediocre at best.

Combining Hulu into D+ still does not give Disney the scale needed to compete with Netflix.

Netflix has an endless firehose of new content that Disney can’t replicate. They’ll never be as big as Netflix in streaming.

No way.

The question is what do Star Wars and Marvel bring to the table? SW holds no interest for Gen Z and Marvel is a major question mark.

Disney haven’t been able to make content that really grabs the attention of Gen Z. Netflix has been able to do it with their content (Stranger Things, One Piece, Wednesday) while Disney has struggled in this regard. If you’re going to spend $200m on a movie or series you have to have Gen Z...

Then you can’t keep spending $200m a movie. The budgets need to come down considerably. Theatrical exhibition is barely a business anymore.

Disney doesn’t make these movies for them to break even.

Why is Snow White not on digital yet? What is Disney waiting for? Does Bob Iger still think it’s 2003 with the 3 month window?

He signed a contract with Netflix and knew very well what their release strategy is.

It’s a mess and I don’t see how they’re going to be able to fight their way out of it. Seems like the public is saying Endgame was truly the end and we aren’t interested anymore and that’s a major problem moving forward.

Feige should’ve left for DC 3 years ago when he had the chance. Marvel has been mostly a disaster these last few years.