By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2018 1:00 pm EST
Unsurprisingly, many employees are unhappy working day-to-day with that uncertainty and have begun to look for other jobs. To prevent a mass exodus of employees, Chief Executive Stacey Snider has extended the contracts of many executives through 2021, prioritizing employees in departments that Disney is almost certain to slash, such as theatrical distribution and marketing.
The ones who you can expect to make it out of this merger unscathed are the franchises. Disney will certainly take over Fox’s biggest film franchises, Avatar and X-Men, “and scale back production of costly movies that don’t fit its family-friendly, franchise-focused formula,” WSJ writes.
But what about everything else? Well, you can probably expect upcoming projects like the Call of the Wild adaptation and a live-action film described as “Game of Thrones with mice” to hit the screen, because they’re in line with Disney’s franchise-first formula. But mid-budget historical dramas about competing Ferrari and Ford auto designers in the 1960s? Young-adult horror movies? Forget about it.
But what about everything else? Well, you can probably expect upcoming projects like the Call of the Wild adaptation and a live-action film described as “Game of Thrones with mice” to hit the screen, because they’re in line with Disney’s franchise-first formula. But mid-budget historical dramas about competing Ferrari and Ford auto designers in the 1960s? Young-adult horror movies? Forget about it.
