Marvel and Mickey … Married?
Posted on | September 2, 2009 | No Comments
I’m sure by now you’ve all heard that the Mouse House has bought the House of Ideas.
Disney has purchased Marvel Entertainment (AKA Marvel Comics and all its movies and merchandising) for about $1 billion. That’s billion. Not million, but billion. As in more money than the GNP of most nations.
What does that mean for screenwriters, filmmakers, and fans? Know one knows for sure. But Marc Bernardin of Entertainment Weekly has a pretty interesting post about the deal.
I would like to think that my favorite comics publisher teaming up with the world’s largest entertainment corporation should mean more greenbacks to fuel movies about my favorite comic characters. But critics fear franchise dilution, legal wrangling, and other corporate horrors.
For now, all I can say is, “We’ll see.”