end box office reports each of the past three years — The Force Awakens in 2015, Rogue One in 2016, and The Last Jedi in 2017 — it’s not too hard to read between the lines and assume the film on Iger’s mind here might be this year’s Star Wars anthology entry Solo: A Star Wars Story. The first certified box office dud of the Disney Star Wars era, with relatively middling critical reviews to boot, Solo’s muted reception signaled the first real signs of Star Wars fatigue. With similar standalone movies based on Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi in various stages of development, not to mention previously announced standalone movie series from Last Jedi director Rian Johnson and Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Disney seems to be rethinking how far it can stretch this universe without exacerbating that fatigue. As for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iger implied that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will be in charge of handling the assumed absorption of Fox’s X-Men franchise, though he remained vague on any other details. (That’s largely because the Disney-Fox merger, while expected to happen, is still awaiting government approval.) An overall focus on branded content, however, seems obvious, as Iger stressed a need for long-term adaptability and transformation over short-term profit: “We’re playing the long game and not the short.”
Published in Daily Times, September 23rd 2018.
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