Disney CEO Bob Iger Confirms Quietly Canceling Several Movie Projects

Robert being a regular made me resub. Always great to see what he has to say.

I’ve been saying this for a long time "superhero fatigue" is not real. When things are good people aren’t tired of things being more good, but then things are bad that’s when you hear "oh, I’m tired". The projects that have been "flopping" are the ones that weren’t well received and that’s when you hear people use that phrase of "superhero fatigue". Nobody used that phrase when Guardians 3 came out or spider-verse, The Batman or even Loki season 2. Just put out great content people will lineup to see it. This isn’t rocket science.

So does this mean we won’t get the Star Wars miniseries of ‘Jaaba The Hut: The teenage slug’ now?

I’ve been saying for several years now focus more on a good story over pushing agendas, and to anyone who gets upset over my comment Bob Igor himself said the same recently.

Had to wait 7 minutes to actually hear robs thoughts

Why people don't want to call it what it is. ?

Confirmation that 'Blade' movie is never coming out! 😭😭😭

Deadpool is one time thing. People are going to show up to see Deadpool not to see what happens in the multiverse of Disney Marvel. Good or bad, Deadpool will be its own thing.

Iger now wields the Almighty Axe of Zaslav

HBO killed a 30 million GOT prequel pilot. One pilot episode that cost 2 Godzilla Minus One move budgets, because not good enough.

Burnett spoke the truth. You lose much more money by damaging your brand than by shelving a bad project and eating the cost.

Honestly - as someone who was excited for She-Hulk initially, I would have preferred it died on the vine than release that damn mess. Same goes for a lot of other things, especially out of Marvel. Blade, Star Wars anything, DC anything - if you can't deliver a product that's 'good', or at least 'okay' (don't hate it, don't love it), I'd rather not have it at all, even if it's something I really wanted to see. Also, honestly, I don't think Superman has to be 'great', like 2 billion dollars and put up there with films like 'The Godfather' or 'The Dark Knight', I think it really just has to be todays equivalent to what the 1978 film was, or even the 1989 Batman film. For starters, it needs to not be insanely divisive (meaning it needs to go with a more traditional main timeline Superman). And beyond that, it just has to be a solid enough written story that's fun and entertaining. A truly great film would be the best, but, after an entire universe that was really just dark, pretty messed up in places, on top of badly written many times - I think we really just need a solid Superman movie to get the ball rolling again. I mean, I wanna see DC characters on the screen - I had more access to those characters as a kid, I'd love to see a universe in movies where they can interact - not necessarily all the time but at times, but, I want it to be at least good, I don't need everything to be A+ stuff that has a snowball chance in hell of winning an Oscar.

People were outraged when Batgirl got axed. I know it was done, but if it's not great then don't put it out. I dont think there's anything wrong eith that mindset.

Superhero fatigue isn't real. Bad movie fatigue is. Make better movies and the audience will show up.

I'm afraid "getting rid of the mediocre" will just result in RDJ being brought back in as a quick bandaid instead of really focussing on quality storytelling...

I’m going to say it for John: “Ryan Reynolds. A good Canadian kid.”

Iger making the tough decisions we need him to make.

IF HE KILLED MOONKNIGHT, BLADE, SHANG CHI 2 ILL BE BUMMED. And I would include Ironheart as well because I’m super excited to see The Hood and Mephisto.

It's better to quietly shut it down than to release ot and everyone keeps remembering it. If the phrase, "It's morbin time," becomes associated with your movies even BEFORE they're released, as we kept saying about Madame Web weeks before it's release, as we are saying already about Kraven the Hunter, it's too late. Marvel has a list of the movies and shows that are quietly shut down. The only one I can remember a the moment is Iron Man Wars and Eternals 2. Blade is still coming. All Disney+ Special Presentations are cut, like Silver Surfer, The Sentry, Scarlet Witch, and Ghost Rider. And at least 2 Disney+ series are cancelled, such as VisionQuest and Wiccan.

Whe the best news you can give your fans is that you secretly canceled projects you know you really fucked up