• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Disney+ doesn’t have much of anything on deck these days, does it? They killed the Star Wars that laid the golden eggs, and now they’ve canceled a bunch of Marvel plans. Is new leadership in the pipeline?

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldM
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      8 hours ago

      They actually just switched to new leadership at the top. Bob Iger was the long time CEO, replaced with Bob Chapek, back to Iger, and now Josh D’Amaro.

      One of Iger’s last projects was Disney+ and they lucked into the pandemic starting right after they launched. Chapek pushed heavily into Disney+, which is arguably what Iger had setup the company to do, but the push seemed to prioritize quantity and not so much quality. When Iger returned that’s when everything slowed down again, although the quality has been picking up.

      I think the focus right now is the Disney+/Hulu merger. I suspect Disney figures they can slow down while that happens and they can focus on just a few projects.

      Marvel has at least another year/season of Daredevil, but nothing beyond that. Star Wars has Ahsoka season 2 coming along, but nothing beyond that. (They both do have animated projects, but just looking at live action). Disney Animation and Pixar both have almost nothing in the pipeline for Disney+, despite having a few items in the past few years.

      D23 is this upcoming weekend so we’ll probably get some announcements, but I think the focus is largely on films at the moment.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      10 hours ago

      thier 1 marvel show made a bunch of money, but i dont know if that is just 1 time thing. because they are likely spending billions keeping the streaming afloat.