Disney CEO Bob Iger Says “I Don’t Want To Apologize For Making Sequels”
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deadline.comBob Iger gave another mea culpa for Disney’s tepid box office lately but said the company’s had great theatrical runs unrivaled by other studios and “I think I don’t want to apologize for making sequels.” “Some of them have done extraordinarily well.
And they’ve been good films too. I think there has to be a reason to make it, beyond commerce. You have to have a good story.
And we have made too many. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to continue to make them,” he said during a Q&A at the New York Times’ DealBook conference.
Interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin read aloud a letter to shareholders written by Walt Disney in 1966, in which he excoriated sequels. “I’m a born experimenter.
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