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"I don't think he's ever seen a Marvel movie" - Bob Iger strikes back at Martin Scorsese

He is arguably The Most powerful man in Hollywood - the chief of The Avengers , The Lion King, Star Wars and Toy Story , and not to forget Mickey Mouse .

Since he is the chief executive of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, Bob Iger spring has been a leader of the Mouse House's growth into an entertainment Empire with the acquisition of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21St Century Fox .

The studio, his films have taken $8. 3 billion (£6. 4bn) at the box office worldwide so far this year, and for about $4 for every $10 spent at the North American cinemas.

after the publication of his memoirs, titled The journey of life (Disney has theme parks), he.

Here are five important things he said, including the reason why "less is more" - in the Star Wars universe, and why Martin Scorsese was wrong to compare Marvel movies to amusement parks, and why Disney didn't go with a business to buy Twitter.

'Too many Star Wars movies' Iger and Star Wars Creator George Lucas in the interior of the Millennium Falcon in Disneyland, Star Wars : Galaxy's Edge

Disney's Marvel bought in 2009 and turned it into the film's most lucrative franchise. There are 10 Marvel movies have come in The Last three years, another eight in the next three. There is a danger of over-saturation?

"Marvel is just doing sensationally well," Iger answers. "The Last film in which they are published in [Avengers: the final] had the highest global box-office in the history of the motion picture companies, and their pipeline is very, very rich with New Stories and new characters and New Adventures , and new super-hero exploits. So not true. "

It is a different story with Star Wars , but. After a run of one film per year for five years and ended with The Rise of Skywalker in December of this year, there is now a gap until the next installment in 2022.

"I've said publicly that I think that we have made and fired many of the Star Wars films over a short period of time," Iger says. "I did not say that they were disappointing in any way. I did not say that I am disappointed by their performance. I just think there is something so special about a Star Wars movie, and less is more. "

the UK will have to wait until Disney+

It may already be too many Star Wars movies, but there are clearly still enough of a Star Wars TV shows.

Disney is launching its own streaming service, Disney+, in the United States on 12 November, with the highlights, such as The Mandalorians, an original live-action series that takes place after The Fall of the Empire in the year 1983 The Return of the Jedi.

But British viewers will have to wait to see it. Or Anything Else on Disney+. For up to a year.

"We have not yet announced a date for market introduction in the UK," Iger says. "Our plan is to Roll Out Disney, we introduce+ in most of Western Europe within The First year, in the United States. "

Scorsese's 'never been observed, Marvel' Iger (middle) with The Stars of The Avengers : the final in Disneyland in California

The legendary Taxi Driver and Goodfellas Director recently, the boat put in Amazement, saying, you are closer to theme parks than real movies, because "it is not The Cinema of the people, to convey the trying, emotional, psychological experience to other people".

"ouch!" is Iger's response. "Martin Scorsese is a great film-maker. I admire him immensely. He made some great movies. I would debate him on this topic. To make, first of all, Marvel, movies. They are films. This is what Martin Scorsese makes. And they are good movies. "

He continues: "I don't think he's ever seen a Marvel movie. Anyone who's seen a Marvel movie could not in all truth this statement is. "

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episode "reminds me of a certain family,"

Disney is a $71bn (£54bn) Men completed The Deal for Rupert Murdoch 's 21St Century Fox - including the likes of X, The Simpsons and The Fantastic Four procedures earlier this year after a bidding war with Comcast.

"As you would expect, Rupert a tough negotiating partner. But he is faithful to his word. If he says Yes to something, he's going to stay," Iger says.

He also lifts the lid on the lengths that he went on a Fox board meeting in London in the year 2018, in order to win the business. He wanted to personally set a new bid to Murdoch, no Comcast wind of his plan, but was worried that the Disney-private-jet would be picked up by online plane Tracker.

"We have decided that if we flew a Disney corporate plane to London, it can tilt, Comcast, that we might come up with an offer that was higher than yours, and we don't want anyone to know that," he says. "We decided to leave our plane in Belfast, And Then charter a plane from Belfast to London, so that we don't fly with the Disney jet. "

He asked to meet Murdoch in the afternoon, before the Fox -evening Board meeting. That machinations reminiscent of a TV hit in Succession, a media mogul and His Family .

Iger said he had seen a few episodes. "There are things that remind me of a certain family, which is involved in the media business. But I think, you know, there are a good amount of fiction in it. "

'Cold feet' about buying Twitter

Sodium book shows Disney also came close to a Deal to buy Twitter, but he pulled The Plug at The Last minute. He says he got "cold feet", because it is "too controversial".

"I thought, there are responsibilities that we were to run Twitter in terms of its position in The World and its effect on The World ," he says.

"to manage While I was fascinated with what they might represent, in terms of opportunity for us, I thought, the responsibility, burdens us with things that might be too confusing, too controversial, too demanding. "

Listen to the full interview with Bob Iger on the BBC Sounds in.

It is customary to mark in most of the studies of a CEO's tenure, mistakes, and missed opportunities, you will find competitors that bad mouth of said individual, and, when It Comes to the ones that split at the top of the global corporate giants, the question of whether any financial successes have been justified within The Company and to The Company . Immerse in the reporting of Bob Iger, is to be found, to contend that journalists, and generally not on all three fronts.

Mr. Iger's reign at The Walt Disney Company challenges to even The Most critical journalists.

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Source of news: bbc.com