Tony Perkis
Well-Known Member
Actually it is correct. TWDC ended up paying more for Pixar due directly to the interference created by Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold. Let's not forget that the Comcast hostile takeover attempt was inspired by the idiot nephew as well.
Twenty years earlier Gold and Disney used the same playbook to get rid of Ron Miller and install Eisner. TWDC had to pay greenmail to Saul Steinberg but Roy E. Disney conveniently had resigned from the Disney BoD . Only eleven days after the greenmail was given to Steinberg, the idiot nephew rejoins the Disney BoD.
Roy E. Disney followed in the footsteps of his Uncle Walt in that they both drained as much money from the shareholders as they could. Perhaps Roy wasn't such an idiot nephew after all!![]()
It is absolutely well documented that Eisner believed that Disney did not believe Pixar, and with the value of hindsight looking at the quality and revenue generated from Disney's animated efforts at the time sometime after Hercules, he was wrong. Very wrong. It is further documented that Eisner actively tried to convince the Disney board against the acquisition due to its price and the idea that Pixar's time had passed them by. Both of those holdups proved to be either overinflated or incorrect.
What you are providing is speculation. What I am presenting has been documented or told by first or third party accounts. None of what I'm saying ever originated in my own head.