Meh, if the wheels fall off now, it was a damn good run. I'm pretty sure they'll clean things up though. It's all about staying true to the spirit of the source material. Disney won't let this cash cow crumble over pettiness. Everyone should be considered expendable. The foundation for these great stories (and a crazy amount more) was laid 30 years ago.
That's the thing though, one of the main guys that's allegedly in all of this pettiness basically IS Disney
Ike is one of Disney's largest shareholders. There's no removing him or forcing him to retire. He's basically the definition of not expendable. I forget the details but I read what it'd take for the rest of the board to try and force Ike out and if they went that route they'd basically be destroying Disney itself due to Ike owning so many shares. When Ike bought in and gained a sizeable position of power he chose to stay off Disney's board of directors. He basically stuck to Marvel cuz that's what he wanted to focus on and grow.
So now that it's a success and there's some rumored problems with ppl who are technically his employees and that one goes around him to the rest of Disney head guys you should expect him to feel some type of way. Sometimes I feel like the only reason this isn't even bigger news with more leaks and mud slinging going on is cuz Ike is in his 70s and always been a lowkey guy not willing to make public statements or displays.
So Iron Man had actual comic book writers help drive the direction of the film. No wonder it was superior to the 2nd and 3rd. Disney could care less about the integrity of these films as long as it makes them money. That's why we got a Cars 3 after the dreadful Cars 2. That's why we're still getting Pirates sequels. We didn't get John Carter follow ups because it bombed at the box office despite it being a quality film.
Wait what?
John Carter wasn't only a bomb at the box office it was a horrible movie that wasn't better than the last Pirates movie or IM3.
So that'd just be another reason to scrap and not do a sequel.
But the theme is on point, corporations in general value money over quality as a rule.
On a lower level, editors at Marvel comics have specifically said they believe in the philosophy that the best quality comics are usually the ones that also sell the most and if a really great quality comic doesn't sell well then it just didn't hit the right audience at the right time.
So you can swap out comic for movie and that's basically Hollywood's view on this stuff.
Cage out here getting mocked like crazy for some of his bad movies but he keeps on trucking and still managed to deliver a good to great performance every now and then. Depp basically doing the same.
