Bob Iger has been talking again, this time discussing the monster successes of Marvel, the opinions of Scorcese and the amount of Star Wars in the marketplace.
After a run of a film a year for five years, ending with The Rise of Skywalker this December, there will now be a gap until the next instalment in 2022.
“I have said publicly that I think we made and released too many Star Wars films over a short period of time,” Iger says. “I have not said that they were disappointing in any way. I’ve not said that I’m disappointed in their performance. I just think that there’s something so special about a Star Wars film, and less is more.”
Disney is launching its own streaming service, Disney+, in the US on 12 November, with the highlights including The Mandalorian, an original live action series that takes place after the fall of the Empire in 1983’s The Return of the Jedi.
But British viewers will have to wait to watch it. Or anything else on Disney+. For up to a year.
“We haven’t announced a date for launch in the UK,” Iger says. “Our plan is to roll out Disney+ in most of Western Europe within the first year that we launch in the US.”
‘Within the first year’. Hardly the first quarter 2020 we initially understood to be the case.
- Hardcover Book
- Iger, Robert (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 09/23/2019 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)
