The Disney Thread | Iger will be with us until 2026

[dudalb]

5 hours ago, JWR said:

Apparently, he was Chapek's Chief of Staff and Speechwriter. 

It's normal for any new CEO to want to bring his own people in.

[Cappoedameron]

Most hilarious shit I heard at thanksgiving dinner was my moronic parents celebrating Chapek being fired because he was woke. I told them you have to start listening to other news outlets aside from Fox News and One America cause Chapek was completely conservative and if they think he's woke then Iger may as well be an evil millennial.

[JWR]

1 hour ago, Cappoedameron said:

Most hilarious shit I heard at thanksgiving dinner was my moronic parents celebrating Chapek being fired because he was woke. I told them you have to start listening to other news outlets aside from Fox News and One America cause Chapek was completely conservative and if they think he's woke then Iger may as well be an evil millennial.

 

He's the least "woke" Disney CEO in decades.... 😄

[Jonwo]

I do think we need to cool down on the idea that WDAS and Pixar will be for the chop because of Lightyear and Strange World. If WDAS survived Home on the Range and Treasure Planet, they'll be able to weather this. Honestly some of the hyperbole from certain posters is just unbearable.

[WittyUsername]

4 hours ago, Cappoedameron said:

Most hilarious shit I heard at thanksgiving dinner was my moronic parents celebrating Chapek being fired because he was woke. I told them you have to start listening to other news outlets aside from Fox News and One America cause Chapek was completely conservative and if they think he's woke then Iger may as well be an evil millennial.

They probably just think that since Ron DeSantis’ idiotic war against Disney began while Chapek was still in charge, that means he must be some antifa socialist who wants to turn everyone in America into a gay minority. 

Edited November 27, 2022 by WittyUsername

[JWR]

5 hours ago, Jonwo said:

I do think we need to cool down on the idea that WDAS and Pixar will be for the chop because of Lightyear and Strange World. If WDAS survived Home on the Range and Treasure Planet, they'll be able to weather this. Honestly some of the hyperbole from certain posters is just unbearable.

 

This. Everyone has the occasional bad day at the office. I'm sure they'll be able to bounce back from this next year. Both Elemental and Wish look much more promising.

[BadOlCatSylvester]

5 hours ago, Jonwo said:

I do think we need to cool down on the idea that WDAS and Pixar will be for the chop because of Lightyear and Strange World. If WDAS survived Home on the Range and Treasure Planet, they'll be able to weather this. Honestly some of the hyperbole from certain posters is just unbearable.

They did survive, yes, but at the cost of major layoffs and their Florida studio getting shuttered. Heads will roll over Strange World's failure. The question is: whose will roll first?

[JWR]

2 minutes ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

They did survive, yes, but at the cost of major layoffs and their Florida studio getting shuttered. Heads will roll over Strange World's failure. The question is: whose will roll first?

 

I think we've already seen heads role: Chapek, Daniel, Bochner, etc. Granted, not all of them are related to the animation division, but still...

[AniNate]

I think both can handle one mulligan but they really need Elemental and Wish to deliver next year. It's definitely no bueno if this becomes a trend. At least when The Good Dinosaur bombed Pixar had a lock in Finding Dory afterward to soften the blow, but the slate of both studios now is a bunch of question marks.

[JWR]

48 minutes ago, AniNate said:

I think both can handle one mulligan but they really need Elemental and Wish to deliver next year. It's definitely no bueno if this becomes a trend. At least when The Good Dinosaur bombed Pixar had a lock in Finding Dory afterward to soften the blow, but the slate of both studios now is a bunch of question marks.

 

Elemental looks way less controversial than Lightyear was:

- Simple Pixar-ian premise 

- Easier to market 

- More appealing to families

 

If it delivers on the quality (More like "Inside Out" or "Coco" than "The Good Dinosaur" or "Lightyear"), everything else will sort itself out.

 

Wish is going to be pushed hard since it's the 100th anniversary. 

Edited November 27, 2022 by JWR

[JWR]

https://twitter.com/WDWNT/status/1596872730921631745?t=2hT_uRuF4bFDpiBEgcYjJg&s=19

[kkccoo]

8 hours ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

They did survive, yes, but at the cost of major layoffs and their Florida studio getting shuttered. Heads will roll over Strange World's failure. The question is: whose will roll first?

Director or Jennifer Lee? 

[JWR]

8 minutes ago, kkccoo said:

Director or Jennifer Lee? 

 

I can't see it.

[Jonwo]

8 hours ago, JWR said:

 

This. Everyone has the occasional bad day at the office. I'm sure they'll be able to bounce back from this next year. Both Elemental and Wish look much more promising.

Honestly, Disney have survived bigger disasters than Strange World. Even Sleeping Beauty was a financial failure back in the day. 

 

I do think certain people are revelling from Disney and Pixar not scoring a hit and it's also distasteful to say that heads will rolls as if people losing their job is something to be celebrated.

[JWR]

19 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

Honestly, Disney have survived bigger disasters than Strange World. Even Sleeping Beauty was a financial failure back in the day. 

 

I do think certain people are revelling from Disney and Pixar not scoring a hit and it's also distasteful to say that heads will rolls as if people losing their job is something to be celebrated.

 

They'll survive this, but they'll definitely need to rebound quickly.

[Morieris]

2 hours ago, kkccoo said:

Director or Jennifer Lee? 

 

As stated in the topic for SW, Don Hall has swung and missed 3 times. His character work is great but his movies are not it with the minor exception of Moana. I don't want him fired, but let's have him work on the characters.

[karlleng]

20 hours ago, Cappoedameron said:

Most hilarious shit I heard at thanksgiving dinner was my moronic parents celebrating Chapek being fired because he was woke. I told them you have to start listening to other news outlets aside from Fox News and One America cause Chapek was completely conservative and if they think he's woke then Iger may as well be an evil millennial.

You should rat them out to FBI

[El Squibbonator]

5 hours ago, Morieris said:

 

As stated in the topic for SW, Don Hall has swung and missed 3 times. His character work is great but his movies are not it with the minor exception of Moana. I don't want him fired, but let's have him work on the characters.

Didn't he also make Big Hero 6? I liked Strange World well enough for what it was, but aside from the novelty of finally seeing a gay main character in a Disney movie, I felt that Big Hero 6 was an overall more interesting story with a more compelling cast. 

[AniNate]

I think Don Hall gets an outsized amount of hate though I don't entirely credit him for either the strengths nor weaknesses of his movies. He strikes me as a competent workhorse, knows how to hit the emotional beats that are demanded but doesn't have much in the way of real personal ambition. A project like this probably did need something more than a competent workhorse to make it stand out.

Edited November 28, 2022 by AniNate

[dudalb]

23 hours ago, Jonwo said:

I do think we need to cool down on the idea that WDAS and Pixar will be for the chop because of Lightyear and Strange World. If WDAS survived Home on the Range and Treasure Planet, they'll be able to weather this. Honestly some of the hyperbole from certain posters is just unbearable.

The don;t get that nobody in the industry expects a unborken string of sucesses. what matters is how much porfit a division makes overall. WDAS and PIxar have nothing to worry about.