Does Disney Feel Threatened by "Mario"?

[The Overlord]

Somehow, I don't think that Disney would want to make a movie about a video game/online community that they terminated.



Problem is that Square Enix has said that they weren't interested in doing anything with Kingdom Hearts beyond the games.

Hey, Disney. It's been 100 years, and you still haven't made a Mickey Mouse feature film. That'd be something different that you could try.

I was kinda half kidding with that suggestion, I don't know if Disney will get into the video game adaptation business, but I do know they try to get onto bandwagons, Black Hole was Disney's attempt to copy Star Wars in the 70s.

 

[Goldstar!]

If Disney wants to adapt a video game into a movie, they could always do Epic Mickey. That at least had a story.

 

[Ace]

There is a silver lining in this in that if there wasn't any contest, everything was a hit and it was just Disney competing against themselves for the highest box office there wouldn't be many reasons to innovate.

While Disney isn't technically a monopoly they did have many of the highest grossing films of all time and I wouldn't want one company to dominate the box office by default. Especially when there's just lots of remakes and reboots and old franchises being ran into the ground. It would look attractive just to copy that business model.

I wouldn't deny there are diamonds in the rough and okay decent stuff that just gets hammered amid the chaos. Elemental was an entertaining movie but I think that it got swamped by their poor distribution model and habits of putting things on Disney+.

 

[Leviathan]

If Disney wants to adapt a video game into a movie, they could always do Epic Mickey. That at least had a story.

They own the LucasArts suite of adventure games. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island and all that.