Disney Confirms

I yanked this off comicbookmovie.

This is from Niki Fenke. After doing some research, it turns out that NIki Fenke is a Deadline Hollywood reporter. She was talking about Bob Iger, head of Disney, and Ike Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel.

“Content-wise, the two moguls agreed that Marvel would continue to operate independently of the notoriously micro-managing Disney in the same way that Miramax did under the Weinstein Brothers. Though that probably won’t make even hardcore fanboys feel better about the deal they’re pissing on all over the Internet yesterday and today. (Given what Iger likes to refer to as the “combustion of digital word of mouth” that operates these days, Iger and Perlmutter have their work cut out for them trying to get skeptical fanboys to believe that Disney has no intention of altering the creative approach which Marvel takes to its comic books and movies. Of course, it helps the corporate confluence between the two companies that Marvel’s movie fare has been and will be “PG-13″.) 

What this basically means is that Disney will not fuck with the way Marvel handles its characters. That should let me sleep a little more soundly. With deeper pockets, larger budgets and the characters we’ve grown to love, Marvel’s future looks bright. At least, I hope so.