Both Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and Disney CEO Bob Iger came out this week and said that going forward they were going to reduce the amount of streaming shows (having abandoned television) and movie they were planning to put out. The video we’re about to look at from Gary Buchler at Nerdrotic will prove how much of a lie that is…like Kathleen Kennedy’s constantly reported leaving Star Wars…or DisneyFilm themselves announcing new Star Wars projects that never happen. By the way, those two links go to the articles Gary references in his video, in case you want to do a context check.
Still, it’s a discussion worth having. Is there too much content coming out of the Disney+ era of Marvel Studios and is that why the content is failing? Is it really “superhero fatigue” or “Marvel fatigue”? I say no, and so does Gary so I don’t have to debate him on that. So what is the problem and how does it match the problems at DisneyFilm and their Star Wars content? Because both suffer from the same problem, which is oddly absent from the other Disney divisions. Nobody complains about too much content coming out of Pixar, and if anything there’s too little content coming from Disney’s regular animation wing to the point I’m not sure it exists anymore. You get the odd 3D movie but every other animated show on streaming and their two remaining channels comes from some other studio. The closest thing to classic Mickey Mouse and company is on Disney Junior in 3D.
Gary sets up the situation well enough in his commentary, but I’m still going to go through some specifics myself and ask is the quantity hurting the quality or is something else to blame? Or maybe it’s both.
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