Disney is planning to reevaluate its slate of films and TV shows from Marvel Studios, with the company set to reduce its output from the comic book franchise studio.
On Disney’s fiscal Q2 earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger told analysts that the company is finally moving away from “a vestige, basically a desire in the past to increase volume.”
“I’ve been working hard with the studio to reduce output and focus more on quality, that’s particularly true with Marvel,” he added.
What will that mean for Marvel’s upcoming films and TV shows? This year’s slate, highlighted by Deadpool & Wolverine, won’t be impacted, but it will be felt in future years.
“We’re slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four, and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two or at the maximum three,” Iger added. “And we’re working hard on what that path is, we’ve…