Disney Over Milk

In the midst of talking Warner Brothers and their app, it slipped past me about Disney last week. With their Plus app, they have a lot of plans set up. They also have a lot of questions on what could happen with their movies. This includes a new Houcs Pocus sequel and a new Sister Act sequel. Remakes on films like Willow and Three Men and Baby. All of this courtesy of Cnet. There's some other stuff hitting soon like Soul from Pixar and Hamilton. But that's not the main focus.

Disney is trying to do their best while still in this pandemic. But milking their Marvel and Star Wars stuff is not going to help. With the Cnet article, they are planning up to 20 new shows. That could be lower, but more than half a dozen from each side. I'm going to start with Star Wars. I don't have much inkling to see the films, but even fans are getting burnt out. I said this in a blog back in the summer of 2018 that there was too many films when the Solo film flopped horribly. Hard to tell if Episode IX would have had better numbers in the spring if the pandemic didn't happen, but who knows.

People love The Mandalorian. But I'm not sure there is any hype for something like a Lando show or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Not to say all their ideas are coming out at the same time, but Disney is over milking a franchise that hasn't had any breathing room. Prior to The Force Awakens, the franchise was still in the public eye, but in terms of books, games, and a few other things. I'm not sure if even the die hard fans will be on board.

The problem with the Marvel stuff isn't so much having different things to occur in the shows. There's plenty of development that can be made. But do you need that many? The glut of films and shows is one of the things I can see where it gets people burnt out on comic book films. It's something I've talked about for a long time now. With the properties Fox had now under their grasp, it could go overboard. It won't die painfully like what Batman and Robin did in the late 90s, but Disney and Kevin Feige don't think there is a fatigue. Let's see what happens with Black Widow, which some wonder if it will even do well. Or any of the films that don't have your mainstays like Iron Man and Captain America.

While I will not wish for these to fail, I hope a failure brings Disney back to reality. Too much of a good thing, even if its good, will turn even loyal fans away. Maybe try some original properties as well instead of pinning everything to overworked franchises and reboots.