The Mouse to Buy the House of Ideas!
Mon, August 31, 2009 
I guess that means we'll get that "Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse" one-shot after all.
In an official press release issued this morning, Disney has announced its plan to purchase Marvel Entertainment for the sum of $4 billion. It's funny to imagine that just 10 years ago the House of Ideas was forced in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Oh how things have turned around for Marvel.
The inevitable question arises, "What does this mean for Marvel Films?" Well they already had a distribution deal in place with Paramount Pictures resulting in the Iron Man franchise as well as the forthcoming Thor, Captain America and Avengers films.
And 20th Century Fox still has the X-Men rights and Sony has a tight grip on Spider-Man. One would assume said deals are still in place. We'll have more on this news-item as it develops.
Seriously, who the Hell saw this coming?
UPDATE: According to a conference call this morning, all current deals between Marvel Films and other studios stand as is.
So the Spider-Man franchise sticks with Sony (they're currently cooking up three more installments with and without Sam Raimi), X-Men with 20th Century Fox (*Sigh*), etc. Paramount still has a distribution deal with Marvel Films that includes Iron Man II, Captain America, Thor and The Avengers. Whatever film follows 2012's Avengers (which will more than likely wind up being a third Iron Man film) seals the deal and the characters go straight to the Mouse.
Also Disney CEO Bob Iger also revealed that Pixar chief John Lasseter recently met with some of the top guys at Marvel to shoot the shit over ideas and what not. Thus there will probably be multiple reports of death from nerdgasming.
Indeed this was "Holy shit!" news, folks.
Reader Comments (4)
Damn I wanted to do this one Jamie :p I'm still trying to fathom 4 billion dollars. Not exactly sure how I feel about this yet, though
In other news, Disney has read this site and hired me to write the new X-Men films, assuring me that they will have bought out Fox by the end of the week.
More on this as it develops.
I'm fine with this as long as Miley Cyrus isn't cast in any Marvel Films.
Miley Cyrus to star in X-Men Origins: Dazzler. :p