Haha. Good point. We were without power listening to local news station on battery powered radio when I heard this news. I had to log on here with my phone to see reaction. I didn't want to waste battery, but I couldn't resist.
Actually nothing you quoted was delusional except for your own post.
I had an interesting trajectory with "John Carter": I heard that Disney was making a big budget movie about it, read first 3/4 books, and then hated the movie because of the changes to the books. It did do pretty well overseas, but 1) I don't think Disney is bold enough to make a sequel and 2) for right now, they're sticking with the 8-10 films per year despite adding the Marvel and Star Wars and second Pixar film each year and Dreamworks... it's just damn crowded in that release schedule.
If Episode VII used characters from the EU, wouldn't the author be owed a good chunk of change from anything involving their creations?
I suggest you read "Disney War" or "Realityland". Both books will give you an interesting perspective of life at The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) behind the WDW façade. The books might give you a better appreciation of some of WDW1974's insight.
If they adapt EU stories directly (Which I would not endorse) then maybe, However, I believe Characters, planets etc. are owned by Lucasfilm for example: if Jaina Solo appears in Episode VII I don't think that means that the author who wrote the book that she originated in would not get any screen credit since the character would be the intellectual property of Lucasfilm. That's why characters are re-used in stories by different authors without legal problems.
I suggest you read "Disney War" or "Realityland". Both books will give you an interesting perspective of life at The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) behind the WDW façade. The books might give you a better appreciation of some of WDW1974's insight.
P.S. Right now there probably are about 100 top executives jockeying to replace Iger. I'm sure every one of those are 100% confident they could do a better job than Iger.
Reading Disney War is a real eye-opener. It really shows you how much of Michael Eisner's legacy remains within WDC. The names of many of Eisner's top people are still within the company despite Iger's (arguably successful) attempts to try to make it look like they are a different company than they were 10 years ago. for example Iger himself had the number 2 spot in the company during the last years of Eisner, He was Company President and Chief Operating Officer for crying out loud. Eisner's CFO was Tom Staggs, In addition Iger's peace treaty with Roy E. Disney by making him Director Emeritus was actually an old Eisner idea that Iger used to bring Roy back into the company. As for the other top Eisner people such familiar names as Jay Rasulo, Judith Estrin, The list goes on and on. If you really think Iger has been trying to discard the post-Wells, Eisner mentality you wouldn't be able to tell from the people from that era who are still there in very prominent roles. Unless of course you think you can keep the same people around and expect a different result.I suggest you read "Disney War" or "Realityland". Both books will give you an interesting perspective of life at The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) behind the WDW façade. The books might give you a better appreciation of some of WDW1974's insight.
P.S. Right now there probably are about 100 top executives jockeying to replace Iger. I'm sure every one of those are 100% confident they could do a better job than Iger.
I actually enjoy the whole saga but if Disney wants to do some re-editing on Episode I I would be happy to take that job
