Is Iger any less woke? I ask out of ignorance. I really don’t know. I do know that we can immediately know. There needs to be mass firings of the woke leftists at Disney if they every want to improve their bottom line.
“Is Iger any less woke?”
Iger knows wokeness has no place at Disney. He knows the customer and the 1% CROWD IS NOT WHO HE IS WORKING FOR.
“Is Iger any less woke?”
Igor has displayed a knack for good business sense. He held the CEO position with Disney for around 15 years. Iger is a widely respected and liked figure at Disney. During his previous tenure he oversaw the deals to acquire Pixar, Lucasfilm and its “Star Wars” properties, and Marvel — all of which have become multibillion-dollar intellectual property behemoths and major parts of the parks which needs to be the cash cow for their movies.
But how he’ll handle the current problems is a two way street. One of the normal processes for a CEO of a major company is that he is under a guided contract to accomplish certain things. Chapek was too. And their big guy that got the business back on track years ago from Paramount, Mike Eisner, was under the thumb of the company, also. But his guide was expansion.
Eisner’s 21-year stint at Disney saw the revitalization of the company’s poorly performing animation studios with successful films such as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and The Lion King (1994), a period known as the Disney Renaissance. Eisner also led major investments and expansion of the company’s theme parks both domestically and globally, including the openings of Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) in 1989, Euro Disney (now Disneyland Paris) in 1992, Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 1998, Disney’s California Adventure Park and Tokyo Disney Sea in 2001, Walt Disney Studios Park in 2002 and Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005. His films at the time he brought in were Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and The Little Mermaid (1989). And it didn’t hurt that he acquired many other media sources, including ABC, most of ESPN, Fox Family (now known as Freeform) and The Muppets franchise.
People like Eisner and Iger were the reason Disney grew and prospered after Walt passed in 1966. Hopefully the board will stay out of Iger’s way and let him do his job.
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