Marvel is consumed by Disney?

Well, not exactly. They were bought out by Disney for $4 billion dollars. Not too shabby of a deal, when you think about the 5000 characters they can play around with in the future.

But sadly Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider and Daredevil are still in their respective studios right now (be it Sony or Fox) and now, with this huge deal, those studios aren't going to give back their film making rights for small change. So Disney instead will be helping distribution and whatnot. Are people worried? Some are, and I can see their concern.

Some people worry about Disney overusing the Marvel characters in horrible childish ways. I'll direct you to the picture below.

As Stan Lee would say, 'Nuff Said.

So I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that at all. What was the first thing that came to mind when I heard of this extraordinary news? One word. One name.

Pixar.

The possibilities are endless with Pixar in the game now. Supposedly John Lassetter visited Marvel before the deal was done and they all geeked it up big time. Which bodes well for any future CG animated Marvel movie that will be coming down the pipeline. There's a ton of characters most people don't even know about that they can exploit in the best way possible.

Devin Faraci has a great little list of 10 properties Pixar should make ASAP.  I have to say, it's a great list with some forgotten treasures. Especially Ka-Zar and The Squadron Supreme. I always loved Mark Gruenwald's unheralded classic. Sadly, The Watchmen got all the credit for being the dark and brooding super hero team comic book, even though Squadron had come out a year before. But I was surprised about Sleepwalker. I always hated that character but he makes some good points as to how it could work. Where's my Darkhawk movie?

But the first thing I thought of for Pixar to do was a storyline from Marvel that was so epic and amazing that when I read it when it first came out, I was shell shocked with the beautiful art by George Perez and Ron Lim and the stellar writing by Jim Starlin. Of course I'm speaking of The Infinity Gauntlet.

 

Ahh memories. I just hate that Thanos hasn't been done the way he should have been done so far in film or cartoons. I mean, in the Silver Surfer cartoon they made his love Chaos, not Death, because that would scare the kiddies. I hate playing down to children. They can take more than we give them credit for. I mean, I grew up on Terry Gilliam films and wasn't scare whatsoever. 

So I welcome this new deal of Marvel being partnered up with Disney. Well, it's not really a partnership, is it? They make it out to be but Disney bought them up, so let's cross our fingers that Disney won't put Marvel to work for pennies in a factory somewhere. It would probably be right next to the Muppets.