#154 Bob Chapek succeeds Bob Iger as Disney CEO: What it means for Marvel Studios

MCU Fan Show - Marvel Studios commentary

Sean Gerber

Tv & Film

4.5 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Walt Disney Company shocked the world with the news that Bob Chapek is succeeding Bob Iger as CEO, effective immediately. We break down the key details from this story, including Iger's continued role as Executive Chairman leading Disney's creative endeavors, why Chapek was chosen as CEO, and why this is happening earlier than expected. We also examine what all of this means for Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige, and whether there could be some additional restructuring that might impact Marvel.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 154 of the Marvel Studios news podcast.
0:13.3	My name is Sean Gerber joined as always by Paul Herman.
0:16.2	How you doing Paul?
0:17.0	I am doing well.
0:17.8	We just saw each other, had a blast at Disneyland.
0:20.2	That was a ridiculous time, right?
0:22.4	I mean, it was, uh was a yeah it wasn't too hot it was I felt it was
0:26.4	perfect weather got to do lots and lots of stuff and yeah that was a that was quite a good time.
0:34.0	It was awesome.
0:35.0	It was an absolute blast being able to hang out with you in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and being able to see the look on your face
0:40.0	when you first saw the Millennium Falcon inside Star Wars Galaxy's edge.
0:44.8	Inside Disneyland.
0:46.1	Yeah, that was a lot of fun last week and we're going to be talking about that on our
0:49.6	Patreon credit scene, including our reactions to Rise of the Resistance because we got to go on that ride for each. on the seen which many of you I'm sure know about by now.
1:04.0	So the plan for this week's episode, it was to go ahead and just continue our
1:11.2	expanding the universe series with Wanda Vision, because Wanda Vision is up next, but then a huge news story broke today and that took precedent.
1:20.0	So we are going to put the expanding the universe series on pause. We will get to
1:24.3	Wanda Vision next week unless it gets bumped again by some other massive Disney
1:28.6	news story or Marvel news story. But because of the story that came today being so big and having such potential impacts
1:36.6	on Marvel and Marvel Studios, we wanted to make sure we talked about it and I got plenty of requests
1:40.7	and questions that we talk about it on the podcast podcast so that's what we're going to do.
1:45.2	We are going to talk about Bob Chapek succeeding Bob Eiger as the chief executive officer of the Studios News Instagram because if you've ever wanted to be on this podcast
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