Disney drops 100 new movies and TV series to dominate Netflix (news).
You might have thought the House of Mouse been quiet of late – well, apart from screwing over poor struggling authors like Alan Dean Foster for their book royalties – but no, they have been planning a major campaign of media dominance with over 100 new TV series and films to bring the audience under the thumb of their Disney Plus service.
What new content, I hear you ask? Glad to answer. Some of the good stuff includes:
Star Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi – a live-action TV series featuring both Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in their prime Jedi antics days.
Ahsoka – a live action spinoff from the Mandalorian which may seek to totally erase the Rey trilogy from the timeline with some parallel reality shenanigans.
Andor – a prequel to the Rogue One movie.
Rangers of the New Republic – another TV series spin-off from the Mandalorian in which a certain deputy goes out a bashing criminals of the interstellar variety.
Lando Calrissian – a TV series based on the cheeky chappie from the Solo film rather than the older, more accommodating Lando from Empire Strikes Back.
Rogue Squadron – a movie based on the very popular Star Wars game franchise.
Marvel
Secret Invasion – a Samuel L. Jackson TV series featuring the Skrull infiltration of Earth. Kind of like the old Invaders, but with some sweet added SHIELD thrown into the mix.
Ironheart – Dominique Thorne as some kind of a mad genius.
Black Panther 2, with Chadwick Boseman’s role not recast. It will be interesting to see how they handle this one given how central Chadwick was to the whole franchise.
Thor: Love and Thunder starring Christian Bale.
They’ve just dropped a whole brown mountain of trailers which we will now proceed to run for your delectation, dear reader.
All this and they still can’t afford to pay authors of their media tie-in books the royalties they were promised under their contracts. For shame.
Jon Watts will direct the new feature film for Marvel's First Family, Fantastic Four! pic.twitter.com/Eu26ghxbGT
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Peyton Reed is back to direct the third Ant-Man film, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, and Michelle Pfeiffer all return. Kathryn Newton joins the cast as Cassie Lang and Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror. pic.twitter.com/opXw1cmpFj
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Academy Award-winning actor Christian Bale will join the cast of Thor: Love and Thunder as the villain Gorr the God Butcher. In theaters May 6, 2022. ⚡ pic.twitter.com/fWS4UuP2oM
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Everyone’s favorite little tree, Baby Groot, will star in a series of shorts on Disney+ featuring several new and unusual characters.
I Am Groot, an Original Series from Marvel Studios, is coming to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/U5nfDkFKjW
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. James Gunn is back to write and direct.
The Original Special is coming to #DisneyPlus in 2022. 🎁 🎧 pic.twitter.com/8JqjhPo6Cn
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Don Cheadle returns as James Rhodes aka War Machine in Armor Wars, an Original Series coming to #DisneyPlus. A classic Marvel story about Tony Stark’s worst fear coming true: what happens when his tech falls into the wrong hands? pic.twitter.com/K6M0q9mcNM
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Coming soon to #DisneyPlus, Dominique Thorne is genius inventor Riri Williams in Ironheart, an Original Series about the creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man. pic.twitter.com/VB94VyPr9e
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Samuel L. Jackson is back as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn from Captain Marvel returns as the Skrull Talos in Marvel Studios' Original Series Secret Invasion. Coming to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/AuInHMuBRW
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
Moon Knight, an Original Series about a complex vigilante, is coming to #DisneyPlus 🌙 pic.twitter.com/oESb9qLSJD
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
She-Hulk arrives to the MCU! Tatiana Maslany will portray Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk and Tim Roth returns as the Abomination and Hulk himself, Mark Ruffalo, will appear in the series. Directed Kat Coiro and Anu Valia, She-Hulk is coming to #DisneyPlus pic.twitter.com/z4OlQJhrlr
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020
