A new Star Wars film in the cinema and an unexpected reunion with a beloved Disney princess. At first glance that sounds like something Millions of Disney fans around the world should cause joyful excitement and excited anticipation. The Mickey Mouse Corporation has seemingly conjured up two new blockbusters out of nowhere. However, a closer look reveals a new publishing strategywhich might make one or two fans feel like they're making a fool of themselves.
The 4th season of an extremely popular Star Wars series and the return of a Disney princess canceled on Disney Plus. At first glance, this sounds like something that would cause disappointment and disappointed sadness among millions of Disney fans around the world. This seemingly paradoxical rollercoaster of emotions reveals a new publishing strategy that, at least for me pretty ripped off occurs.
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Star Wars series and Disney Princess canceled on Disney Plus, the cinema is calling
Because Disney is apparently stomping planned series on Disney Plus in order to bring them to the big screen in a compressed form as a “movie”. That is at least in the case of Star Wars: The Mandalorian so. Season 4 was canceled and is coming instead in feature length first go to the cinema. One new trilogy does not seem to be out of the question if successful.
And also at Moana (original: Moana) A similar picture emerges. In addition to the live-action film with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a second part of the animated original will be released in the cinema, which apparently also happens originally conceived as a series became. For me, this creates numerous problems on several levels.
Disney Plus series in the cinema – Disney, what's the point?
Disney's apparently new strategy seems understandable. Filming a two-hour “episode” should be significantly cheaper than producing an entire season of a Star Wars series. There is also the nice side effect that the fans get paid twice as much. Once with the cinema ticket and then again with the monthly subscription to Disney Plus, which is not only becoming more and more expensive, but its availability in terms of password sharing is becoming more and more limited. But that's not enough.
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I'm afraid that Star Wars series condensed into feature length films or Disney princesses will unite “the worst of two worlds”. Production quality is likely to suffer significantly. Series like Obi-Wan Kenobi are easy to see quite a bit cheaper as a big Star Wars blockbuster. And also the Animated series on Disney Plus do not reach the standard that one is used to from the Disney masterpiece series in the cinema.
Disney is threatening its former members more and more excellent reputation to gamble away. If you have to worry about global brands like Star Wars or the Disney princesses that you only get a movie ticket for the money cobbled together content is presented to you that only correspond to TV standards, then quite a few people will probably consider going to films like Dune 2 in the future.
These blockbusters are explicitly made for the big screen (here is our review of Dune 2) and only come later as a stream. Disney seems to want to test the exact opposite approach in the coming months and years and as a viewer and film fan you can rightly feel a little cheated.