ELON MUSK IS BUYING DISNEY AND STAR WARS? - My Thoughts

It seems Elon Musk is trying to acquire Disney and all of their IP including Star Wars. I would be quite happy if this happened as I feel he'd leave the people who know the brand the best (dave filoni, jon favreau) in charge to run it without anyone meddling, like disney and Hollywood.
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[@greendusk93]

They need to have Sam Witwer in a high position. He's a walking Star Wars Bible.

[@ob1spyker]

THIS!!! MAKE IT SO!!!

[@Lraimondo12]

amen

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

Give Sam Witwer, Star Wars Theory and Gina Carano full creative control.

[@ob1spyker]

@@Isaac_5.56x45 um no

[@anakinsharksuerink7550]

Sam Witwer, should OWN Star Wars, instead!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@zetterburger]

“is” and “will” are two different things but if Peltz and Musk team up then Iger/Kathleen are done

[@rbu2136]

My dog and a hamster could do a better job than Disney has done with Star Wars.

[@tomhaas7078]

​@rbu2136 I can't wait to hear the stories your team comes up with. Disney is ruined.

[@MCsCreations]

​@@rbu2136 I think I know the right hamster for the job.

[@CyberSonic157]

How are they two different things? Both statements end in an outcome with Elon buying Disney/Lucasfilm.

[@05goode]

@@rbu2136 yes let’s look how great musk has done with twitter 😂

[@WhoisPersona]

If you've come to the comments first because you were unsure about the video's title then you have made the right move. Musk has mentioned an interest in buying Disney, but the likelihood of that happening is slimmer than a stand of hair.

[@gentronseven]

It's not impossible, he just needs a group of allies like Nelson Peltz to hold a majority of shares. It won't be like Twitter where they took it private most likely but it won't be impossible at all, especially if he puts $40 billion into it

[@DarthPlagiarize]

@@gentronseven First of all Disney is not going to sell it to Elon. Elon has threatened to buy Disney, but this will lead to a war of insults.

[@gentronseven]

@jarvis2945 Disney is a publicly traded company, they can't choose who they do or don't sell to.

[@DarthPlagiarize]

@@gentronseven Your right Disney is a publicly traded company. However, they are not selling it to Elon or Peltz. Elon has said he would buy Coca-Cola and Fortnite. Nothing happened. It's all bark and no bite.

[@Bryzerse]

Yep, especially with the whole mess around his Tesla payout that's going on right now, there's no chance he's buying it.

[@smokeykenobi1653]

Can we bring the Theory back into Star wars Theory please?

[@el1tefire252]

Facts, love the theories man

[@DISstockmagic]

Well it certainly is a theory. Title is clickbait

[@KryptonianChaos1]

He's got too many "Conservative Bro" friends to ever turn back. And now most of his audience are sycophantic losers desperate for a community that welcomes them and their values.

[@reaganomics40]

I mean there’s not a whole lot to talk about theory wise, unless you go back in other timelines. But I get it, Star Wars hasn’t been very exciting lately so he’s not too motivated. He’s more excited about his current endeavors, good for him. I hope SW gets more exciting!

[@AC-kw7xx]

lol you’re paying for this garbage?

[@darknessunknown4384]

If he fires kennedy, he's my hero.

[@Mrhandfriends]

It’s not April 1st is it ?

[@Packers1919]

Always has been.

[@IRLSuperb]

Ever since 2020 it’s been a April fools every day

[@b.i.g2470]

😂 my dumbass actually checked after I read your comment 😂😂

[@binladen34444]

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[@ace_v2905]

Last time Elon made that emoji face, he bought twitter.

[@Podemeister]

He was forced to buy Twitter in the end as his mouth got him into a bind he couldn't back out of. And has since driven it into the ground. He may be the go to crush for the other side of the oddball woke culture wars, but he knows f*ck all about making movies. Star Wars needs change, and that includes getting rid of Kennedy as well as keeping Filoni away from live action.

[@hannamaryann0705]

@@Podemeisterhe doesn’t have to know anything about making movies. What he CAN do and probably WILL do is hire competent writers, directors, actors, producers and everyone else needed to create art again. He understands that Disney is crumbling and if anything he wants to save it out of compassion for the people who have loved the company for years, but hate the way it is going. He’s not oblivious and doesn’t live life with rose tinted glasses like some people do. Yes, he’ll get money from it everyone knows that but I’d rather have him take the reins than have Bob Iger continue to drive one of the biggest companies on the planet into the ground.

[@milward4563]

@@Podemeister 'his mouth got him into a bind he couldn't back out of'. I thought the one thing he was good at was buying up stuff, but he actually didn't intend on buying twitter than he really is just a useless rich guy

[@binladen34444]

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[@chrisclement5091]

@@Podemeister Not true at all, he didnt have to buy anything. He chose to and got it for less than they originally wanted . And it is doing just fine lol. The propaganda you have bought into is astounding.

[@briangaines3693]

What’s up with the clickbait title?

[@Seylahh]

Nothing wrong with clickbait, it's the normal for youtube for years

[@jessebakken7547]

Riding with the KZbin algorithm.

[@05goode]

Everyone hates his channel now

[@Nobleman23]

You mean a normal title? Because 90% KZbinrs do this shit and nobody bats an eye. Suddenly it’s a problem here.

[@jcxtrooper]

@@Seylahhfr i agree

[@saladinbob]

First off I think he was having a little fun, because I don't think for one minute he's going to buy Disney; I think he's going to invest in Peltz to buy Disney by becoming a major shareholder, allowing the balance of power to swing away from Blackrock and Vanguard.

[@nathansstuff1547]

Yeah, he can't invest in anything. He'd be killing Tesla to do it

[@jhn146A]

Peltz will bring Disney back to being Walt Disney's Disney, and back into the black and profits.

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@jhn146A With what money? He doesn't even have enough money to get control

[@jhn146A]

​@@nathansstuff1547I'm sure he would not be the sole investor.

[@nathansstuff1547]

@@jhn146A Still doubt anything will happen with this. Elon definitely can't take any part in it

[@callmepopyallfather2473]

"it could be worse......" He said that with a straight face.

[@TrueAnarkii]

i know right wtf hahaha the only time I've ever watched theory and been like, what did he just say?!? worse hahahah

[@Heragoose]

He couldn’t even run Twitter, he would tank Disney into bankruptcy

[@Hard2Flash]

That's probly his goal lol

[@tylerworth6355]

@@Hard2Flashwhy would he want to purposely lose money? that’s dumb

[@antidolia]

disney is already doing that themselves tho?

[@soywho9837]

Apparently Twiotter is supposed to become profitable soon

[@WanderfalkeAT]

They tank themselves into bancruptcy if you have not noticed yet, Shill!

[@jedicouncil66]

In a giant list of things that will 99.999% never happen, this is in the top 10

[@THE_VictoryPictures]

Just noticed that your chair’s headrest makes you resemble a silhouette of Darth Vader

[@TexasSpartan099]

Good stuff. 😎

[@ChewieFinster]

Makes sense given how hard he simps for Vader and how he acts

[@THE_VictoryPictures]

@@ChewieFinster okay

[@random__joe]

Or look like a Ferengi head covering

[@mikeexits]

​@@ChewieFinsterStretching the word "simp" quite a bit there

[@05goode]

lol he’s done such a bang up job with twitter

[@OldestOldGregg]

I just downloaded "X" and it's literally all porn and fight videos, I deleted a few hours later. Not because Musk, but he would do good.

[@shadowcat1606]

Rooting for Elon Musk is like watching A New Hope and hoping that Luke's torpedo misses.

[@zrecvelesa6012]

Glory to the Empire then

[@shadowcat1606]

Far be it from me to stop someone from doing something incredibly stupid.

[@Magical-Melon]

My god legends re canonisation even as a separate universe away from the movies / tv

[@EmperorsWrath]

I second this! That universe still has so much to offer if handled by competent and knowledgeable writers

[@Magical-Melon]

@@EmperorsWrath I seriously dont think that most movie or tv writers could do a good job but as a continuation of the universe in litirature this could work also as the OT actors are too old they couldnt do addaptations of stories with them in truce at bakura onwards

[@Darkness1984]

Legends was a mess in the end.

[@EmperorsWrath]

@@Magical-Melon Would agree with you, I was mostly thinking in terms of novels, comics, games or animation, hadn't considered film but if that was possible in any way it would be awesome.

[@SpFlash1523]

I think the EU being recanonized the official Star Wars canon would bring in anime fans.

[@Dgrodi24]

Click baiting now are we

[@KSperr1324]

Learn how to read

[@shadowyfauna9891]

"You speak of the one who will bring balance to the force. You believe it's this..52 year old billionare?"

[@legendman97]

Disney even dropped the ball with battlefront…. Takes a lot of talent to do that.

[@BallPythonPassion]

The first two people that he would need to fire are Bob Iger & Kathleen Kennedy. That would be EPIC!

[@seynpurrp]

He would 100% fire bob iger lmao did u not see the clip of him telling bob to go f*ck himself? XD

[@MarsVee123]

It would take a sea change as drastic as that, in order to see any real significant change in the direction that Star Wars and Lucasfilm is going. Otherwise we can only expect more of the same for years to come.

[@DManLewis1]

If he bought disney, i would just hope he doesn't go political JUST like he did with twitter. He turned all conservative.. i just hate both sides of politics and it obviously doesn't belong in anything disney or movies/tvshows in general tbh lol. I watch to escape ALL of that!

[@willa-carolinenobl1470]

Yup!!! Couldn't agree more!!!

[@marconeri1345]

How did he turn it conservative?

[@TeamPlasmaNowa]

I definitely agree that star wars needs a leadership change but I also think that Elon Musk is on the very short list of people that would actually do a worse job then the current leadership. When it comes to managing Star Wars most people would do a better job by simply not making the bad decisions that have been made in the past and Elon Musk is the King of bad decisions. With Twitter being the first company where he was able to make all of the decisions himself and how many terrible choices he made that lead to the current state of that horrible website somehow getting as bad as it is now you can only imagine how badly he would fuck up Disney/Star Wars. Star Wars definitely needs a leadership change but Musk would be one of the worst candidates possible. Also I don't think he could afford to buy them as easily as everyone makes it sound, twitter already cost him a LOT of money and that was only 44B compared to the around 200B Disney would be worth and even for the richest man in the world spending that much money on a single company would not be as easy as taking out a loan or 2. He probably could theoretically buy them if he really wanted to but it would cost him way more then everyone makes it sound. Also also, Disney would need to be willing to sell to him + all of the different regulatory boards in way to many different countries would need to agree on that deal and I just don't see that happening.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Elon Musk is the Kaiser of the Empire of Bad Decisions.

[@soywho9837]

I think he would be pretty good; if he was all about bad decisions, how did he get where he is today?

[@Fulcrum1313]

If he buys it I can see almost every single project made by Disney getting a non-canon banner. And that just puts a smile on my face :)

[@BB-mt5no]

He can't afford it. Disney is worth more than he is.

[@dennisriddle]

Disney’s market cap is $202 billion! And his last purchase has lost at least 60% of its value. He has neither the resources, nor the available leverage to pull off such a purchase. If Disney and it’s many shareholders wanted to be purchased, they would need to be looking at Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Meta, as those are the only companies big enough without breaking it into smaller pieces.

[@botiemaster3356]

Whoever said it would just be Elon Musk buying it? It wasn't just Elon Musk who bought twitter.

[@mikeexits]

Company values are often highly inflated, especially in tech. What's there to say it isn't just a more honest market value that "brought it down"? Could anyone more savvy about this stuff chime in here? Because for all we know the actual company value if being honest might have been lower than it is now. There are loads of tech and internet companies that overinflate their value for their own benefit. I'm not saying it's true in this case, just that we should rule that out before jumping to the conclusion that the actual value dropped so steeply. This stuff gets complicated when you get into the nitty gritty.

[@erikborgersen7181]

Breaking the company into smaller pieces is a good thing. Honestly Disney is too big and just a monopoly at this point. Breaking the company down into smaller parts would keep them in check. It’s also produced utter shit for quite a while now on multiple fronts, not just Star Wars

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

He doesn't need to buy the "whole" company at market price to get control! All he needs is a small group to buy 5% of the company and he could do that quite easily without any government oversight then make a play for board seats.

[@kd10230]

it's 140 billion. Elon has the money if he wants too

[@shadowofchaos8932]

George would set himself on fire.

[@warrenwymore6631]

George hates Disney for how they have treated his franchise

[@PalpamemesYT]

Enough of the clickbait, please.

[@jonashr553]

Another clickbait video, as usual. There's no way Disney would agree to this, especially now that Elon is supporting Gina. You just continue trashing Disney and then you are disappointed when they don't invite you to any events. I miss when your channel was really about Star Wars, theory videos, comics, fanfics, now all you do is criticize Disney, complain and react to some articles. I really hope Hayden and Ewan don't get in trouble for hanging out with you, they clearly still want to work for Disney

[@robinnewhouse1563]

His channel is dead, now he has to milk the ones who are left. Which funnily enough are mostly anti Star Wars fans 😂 this is ironic and pathetic if you consider how this channel started

[@PrinceDaemonTargaryen]

Yeah he's still got a high subscriber count but the average views for his videos really fell off and don't represent that.

[@Particularly1677]

Wipe the sequel trilogy, and make Legends canon. Luke needs redeemed. Show Mara Jade, Jaina and Jacen, the Vong, Palpatine in Dark Empire, Abeloth and so many others. Let's see Luke as he should be and was in the books.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Rumors are just rumors, we will just have to see.

[@ABanRocks]

Elon is a troll and just trolling around. Not sure why people like him. He is a vengeful little man so keeps getting his feelings hurt.

[@MegaMew204]

"He will burn himself just to get back at you, I kinda like it" Yes theory let the hate flow through you

[@Anthonycheesman33]

He’s going to run them like he is running twitter lol.he would literally go broke trying to buy Disney .

[@raskolnikov6443]

He’s running Twitter pretty well

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

One thing which is funny is that he wouldn't have to worry about Disney pulling advertising from Twitter/X :)

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Precisely.

[@BB-mt5no]

@@raskolnikov6443 He bought it for $44 billion and now it's worth $12.5 billion. Most people would call losing $31 billion not running it well.

[@BB-mt5no]

@@vaughanmacegan4012 You do realize having one of your companies buy advertising from another one of your companies doesn't solve the problem of lost revenue, right?

[@angellopez6475]

Are you going to do fan fics like you said you would or will the channel be like this from now on?

[@NeighborhoodItalian]

Legit question

[@robinnewhouse1563]

What happened to the money he fund raised for his fanfic?

[@ChefBoyARD]

@@robinnewhouse1563 he is working on it I'm sure, stuff like that doesn't happen over night (i.e. making films).

[@baskkev7459]

Man if this incel like behavior/elon fandom behavior is the new norm. I am out. Man how are people so stupid to fall for elons way of thinking. Like i guide/teach/take care of people with down syndrom with development ages of 2,5 years ( yes two and a halve years old) who have better graps on some facts, more empathy and are more normal then he is :S

[@Citizenx305]

So, you have not seen the screen shots he unveiled just few days ago from Vader Episode 2 ? 🤨 Just look it up !

[@BenLaurence]

If this were to happen, I don’t know how I’d feel about it… as a fan of Disney, Elon is very tech/future focused much like Walt but I don’t know if he really GETS what made Disney Disney

[@clon76]

@bananarama1425 Exactly. Musk doesn't even get what makes humans human. He's a clown show these days

[@Jadefox32]

"how did you get the house back?" "I bought the bank." 😅 "It's kind of like a reflex for me."

[@batofkrypton9765]

I got that reference

[@strangeclouds7]

Clickbait = L

[@TheDeinonychus]

While it would help, a new owner isn't going to fix Disney and StarWars. That would require replacing almost everyone involved to remove those more interested in pushing the narrative rather than telling a good story.

[@metalfiend-sm2td]

Maybe it would take him dumping 80% of Disney staff? they deserve 99% in my books. Just an old salty fan though.

[@Alejandra-cv7rj]

Disney would take years to recover but I think Disney as a whole needs to be moved from California and start fresh elsewhere. As well fire most of the workforce and actors that's overpaid.

[@FreeJalen]

@@metalfiend-sm2tdwhat does musk know about Star Wars he’s a AI robot goon. Look how he’s destroyed twitter you think he’s ready for Star Wars because he know how to launch a rocket ship. Lol 😂

[@donovan4222]

What narrative?

[@Haggysack2k8]

"...remove those more interested in pushing the narrative rather than telling a good story." "...remove those more interested in pushing their gender-political viewpoints than telling a good story." Fixed it for you. Your actual sentence made no sense, because "the narrative" and "the story" are the same. What they need to get rid of is this gender-politics stuff and i also think (and hope) this is probably what you originally meant.

[@bradybaker7650]

If he does, would he technically be suing himself with gina?

[@ruufiss9922]

he would prolly just hire her back maybe and drop the suit. or wait till after the suit to buy them

[@el-danno]

Likely fire the whole department responsible for that, and then sue them

[@perssontm1628]

They rob them of money, then use that money to buy shares, it’s genius !

[@lightborn9071]

You don't sue just the name of the company but the people who own it.

[@blademaster11121]

Yeah I could see him waiting to acquire the company after he helps sue the shit out of them 1st. Honestly Gina should go for at least 200m or more for compensation for the loss of job and defemation.

[@7TheWhiteWolf]

He could bring back George Lucas.

[@wolfdepp22]

It’s cute that you put any kinda faith in that man.

[@janrodriguez3214]

If you look at the current board members of Disney, none of them have served more than 5 years which is ironically the same window Disney has been in this slump in quality. To me it seems these people don’t really care about the product and are only there to collect a paycheck for as long as they can and add the Disney name to their résumé. If there’s a chance for new leadership I’d take that over what we currently have.

[@DanielRyanScott]

Its been found that the companys Vanguard Group and BlackRock are responsible for ruining a lot of media including video games. I suggest going down the rabbit hole because it is legit.

[@N.E.U.R.O]

Might be deeper than money, Star Wars is a cultural symbol at this point and destroying it does wonders for demoralization. Certain folks want the west to die.

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

Most of the board members don't have shares in Disney so it not in their interest to keep the company running smoothly and solvent they are just there to collect their boardroom paycheck.

[@tylerhfroemming]

Click bait if I’ve ever seen it

[@djthebigkor-ian8074]

It can either really good or really bad. I'm down for a change.

[@FlynnsArcade_go]

Sw theory says “ Gina can go tell Elon which Disney employees are pieces of shit, then Elon can go fire them.” Real classy statement Theory.

[@ChrisJohnstonMusic]

I agree with all that you said. I have no idea what Elon would give to Disney...but it would be better than what we have now....

[@baskkev7459]

Hell no. Thats a nightmare. While i do not like this current way of things. Elon Musk is way worse. Never thought you @starwars theory where such a elon Musk Stan. And drink his coolaid. Very dissapointing , thought you where smarter then this. Elon Musk would turn into a alt right mecca. It Will turn from the galactic republic into a very dank version of the empire...... You are really becoming scary.

[@glassworktrophic8465]

Disney has set the bar so low that literally anyone could do better with their IP. Even aside from Star Wars. For case-in-point see how they retooled their Snow White film after they saw what Daily Wire was going to put out. Even THEY know it.

[@bikkiikun]

Burning 25 billion on Twitter, is strong argument for petulent Musk being able to do so much worse. And like the lazy writers on the sequel trilogy, Musk is one to blame everyone, but himself for his own mistakes.

[@Chrisfragger1]

Average Star Wars FANFICS are better than their current filthy movies.

[@raoulduke8382]

You are very much like Lando Calrissian looking to make a deal with Vader on Bespin. He WILL alter the deal you think you are getting.

[@lordfoul6259]

Yup he made a video saying that he would stop with all this rumor BS and go back to the old style but yet he's still doing it I am altering the deal pray I don't alter it any further

[@Kirdo-6241]

How old are you?

[@lordfoul6259]

@@Kirdo-6241 who are you asking?

[@ComeAlongKay]

Well Vader mass murdered people so I can see how you think he’s like musk who hasn’t done that and has only saved and built successful companies one after the other/

[@tgj251]

To think Disney is in bad shape and needs to be fixed is one thing. To think Elon Musk is the answer or even a grade better is an absolutely batshit stupid idea. This is just a hard on for right wingers.

[@jadam8844]

Rumors are not fact. I'd much prefer George Lucas buy Disney. Just because Elon Musk is a Billionaire who likes space doesn't a make him a good candidate to run an legacy entertainment company. George Lucas should buy back his IP.

[@Krassus7101]

As long as Star Wars is out of KK’s control, I’d be happy

[@theremnant117]

I almost put an extra K in there but I guess that wouldn't be far off anyways haha

[@jonathantorres4085]

@@theremnant117 do you know what’s her middle name? If it starts with a K.

[@ROB_LAW98K]

What will Elon Musk do. He’s the guy that bought twitter, halved its market value and still thinks he’s a genius. Cool

[@NeighborhoodItalian]

Theory turned into a clickbait channel which is crazy 😂 my man said Mike zero hold my beer

[@mattvsmetaverse]

I think the reason Disney has gotten to this stage is that it has employed and promoted to leadership, ideologues who only want to promote their agendas, not make art. Elon actually cares about the culture war, and his moves aren't really based on spite or revenge. He IS a business man after all, and making decisions like that just wouldn't be in line with his past business behavior. I think these ideologue writers of these articles are simply in-line with Disney's message, and will do anything to slander the possibility of Elon's acquisition. All of this is par for the course regarding most of our cultural institutions now.

[@Roger-il8iw]

He really only needs 51 percent to get control. He doesn’t need to take it private like he did with twitter

[@Azure_Fire]

You want Typhoid or Ebola? That's the choice between KK and Musk. The fact anyone here thinks Musk would be a good choice for the job is mindboggling. You guys are seriously making me miss the days of Troy Denning's insanity.

[@mike197714]

😂😂😂Who’s Troy Denning?.🤣🤣🤣. Ebola🤣🤣🤣. Ahh Musk was just teasing us guys. But when he bought Twitter. Musk of stock in space X&Tesla isn’t doing so well either. Twitter stock hasn’t been doing well before Musk bought it. He rebranded it so he can make solo all him(Don’t how to say another way). It’s on the tip of my tongue. But it keeps eluding me. Twitter stock is sinking still. So I think it’s just a tease. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷

[@nicholasstilley2370]

I was starting to think this might happen after the Carano lawsuit was announced

[@NeighborhoodItalian]

How do those things correlate? lol they’re suing for 75k.. it’s a stunt they have no chance to actually win, and they know that. And no Disney ain’t selling

[@MGSmainthemeBACK]

The worst things that Disney did weren't their crappy live action tv movies and the sequels... But canceling the clone wars and deleting the expanded universe, then to latter leach of what remained of them (rebels, batch or tales) to gives a half decent product, still we lost so many storylines from those canceled projects and everything hast to be retconned.. like Ventress's death is like the 3rd time that got changed Hope Elon cleans House like he did with Twitter, he might be chaotic but at least the new hires can tell stories instead of THE MESSAGE... maybe star wars toys can return to be the king of the toystore... also we need more star wars games... Revenge of the sith gave us more good games than the entire sequel trilogy and D+ shows

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

Yep the decanonization of the Darth Plageuis Novel (and subsequent canonization of the comic that says Sidious created Anakin, which is heresey considering only Plageuis mastered life and death) was there second biggest mistake. The first being what they did to Luke's character.

[@thisguydan]

One of the major ingredients missing in Star Wars now is the willingness to be bold to show people something they've never seen before. George always wanted to show audiences something new. You weren't just going to see another big film, but a glimpse at the future of special effects like you've never seen it. Disney lacks that creative ambition. Elon has that same spark to take risks and innovate so with the right people in charge and the right filmmakers, it could be a great fit.

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

If Elon was to go through and purchase shares in Disney he doesn't NEED to buy the whole company outright to get control of Disney. All he would need top do would be to buy enough shares to get a controlling interest, so, he gets a seat on the board, then get competent people in to run the company and then start the huge axing process in Disney, of those who are not doing a good job. Starting with like KrayKray, Pixar, Kevin Feige and get people like Ike Permutter, John Lasseter and Peltz back in if they would, he needs to clean out most of the rot like he did in "Twitter/X" and Disney would then be in a good position to start making Disney profitable again. The "Twitter/X" takeover will look like a walk in the park compared to this. The best thing about this scenario is that while KrayKray was information over Iger to keep her job there is no such case with Musk, if he makes a play for Disney expect her to suddenly resign - otherwise he could destroy her legacy completely as he is not beholden to the left-wing lunacy that so infects Hollywood. The thing is Musk will be crucified by the left wing media but seeing as he bought "Twitter/X" he stopped a lot of that rot as well.

[@jacobworner1063]

Brother your brain has rotted if you think this is possible 😂😂

[@gtavstepfordcounty1733]

Guys look its a 🤡

[@jacobworner1063]

“Gtavstepfordcounty” Womp womp don’t care

[@gtavstepfordcounty1733]

@@jacobworner1063 yet you cared to respond 😆 🤣

[@wait.whereami5140]

He’s rich but he’s not rich enough to buy Disney 💀

[@MarosiMate-sq2wm]

He is that rich. All he needs to do is pull out from one his investments.

[@Ilikeavocados123]

@@MarosiMate-sq2wm he is not by himself 💀

[@jasoncarter5448]

@@MarosiMate-sq2wm Your math is off and it's not that easy. Disney is worth more than Musk ($202 billion vs $199 billion). He would have to sale all of his stocks in Tesla, X/Twitter, sale off Space X and the Boring Company ($160 billion total) and still need to find $40 billion just to get to the market value of Disney. And Disney isn't being sold at market value, so he would probably need to come up with $300 billion. It's just not happening.

[@Hard2Flash]

These people don't buy companies with cash, they tale out loans. And his companies are more than enough to get a loan for enough to buy disney.

[@jasoncarter5448]

@Hard2Flash They don't finance the entire amount. Musk had to sell $7 billion in Tesla stock just to buy Twitter. And with that he gets to make a billion dollar payment every year to the banks just for the interest (and Twitter/X's revenue won't even cover that). And once again, Musk's total worth with all of his companies is about the same as Disney. And none of the major shareholders that own Disney (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway) would ever consider selling at current market rate because they understand the long term profits from Disney would exceed whatever package Musk could come up with. And they are in the business of making long-term money for our retirement funds. Musk doesn't have any cash for that. He would have to sell his other companies. Now you want to know who is really rich and could be a player? Warren Buffet has a record $157 billion in cash and liquid assets.

[@ReptilesXtremeGaming]

The science in Star Wars would make sense 😂

[@donovan4222]

The only science Elon is good at is marketing

[@folkvarwolfwind]

Elon is not a real scientist. But he is good at tricking people into thinking he is.

[@yofetv]

Buys Star Wars. Appoints George Lucas as the head of everything with final say. Bring in Sam with Dave and John. Got yourself a hell of a team that LOVES Star Wars

[@jasoncarter5448]

This doesn't make sense to me. Disney is worth $202 billion as of today's stock market and Musk is worth $199.4 billion as of today's market. So roughly the same. And Musk is "cash poor," the vast majority of his wealth is tied up in stocks. So in order to buy Disney, he would have to sale his other assets in order to make this happen, just like he had to do with the Twitter/X fiasco. The large financial institutes that own Disney (Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, Berkshire Hathaway) who control many of our retirement investments and have a big influence in Disney's operations, know the long term earning potential of Disney is greater than the profits of a quick sale. I'm no finance wiz, but I would give this between zero and no chance of ever happening.

[@ARod3]

Dislike for the stupid clickbait title

[@joeyritchie8325]

I HOPE HE DOES RIGHT BY US

[@kaiserconquests1871]

"No, that's not true. That's impossible"

[@nickh.4940]

"Search your feelings, you know it to be true!" (I got mixed feelings about this too. Just fyi lol)

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

You are one of my favorite Star Wars people, and I agree with nearly all your takes on Disney. You are too good for the clickbait title. Your content stands on its own. I already have unsubscribed to several channels recently for suddenly being clickbait heavy. Please don't go down that road. Stay yourself! It is plenty good enough!

[@nnnnndddd]

If you think Elon buying Disney would be good for Star Wars, then you completely and fundamentally misunderstand Star Wars. This is laughable.

[@daviddyster4145]

It’s like waking up in hell, Elon Musk is the worst case scenario.

[@darcflame37]

How so

[@h24manu]

No, Disney still running Star Wars is the worst case scenario

[@ob1spyker]

Because he’s toxic

[@daviddyster4145]

@@darcflame37 He’s a tech man not a filmmaker.

[@h24manu]

@@ob1spyker what do you mean by that? Toxic means something is poisonous and I don't see any poison

[@georged333]

Elon musk didn't even buy Twitter by himself. He literally couldn't buy Disney at all. And the way he runs his businesses, i wouldn't be so hopeful for how those properties would be handled lol.

[@ChefBoyARD]

My guy, have you seen tesla recently?

[@Ilikeavocados123]

@@ChefBoyARD he has to pay them back 55b lol

[@yashaleo7]

Worked for Twitter… oh wait 😅 ☠️

[@thomasford2032]

I do not want Elon Musk to buy Disney. People may not like the direction Disney has been going but having Disney being owned by the man who fires staff like he changes shirts is not the solution, if anything it will likely make the situation worse.

[@AlwaysVotingMAGA]

Step #1: Elon buys Disney Step #2: Elon hires SW Theory for Star Wars projects & many others.

[@BobBoozle]

I think Elon would experience an even greater culture clash than when he bought Twitter. High profile creatives and actors would quit or undermine his decisions, the company would get so much negative media coverage and he'd get blamed for longstanding gripes about animators not getting paid appropriately. It's probably not worth the headaches.

[@ComeAlongKay]

⁠@bananarama1425coming from you a random person on the internet that means a lot. He’s just ranked with a hundred and fifty IQ and runs multiple major companies that are way harder to run and operate. I mean sure landing rockets it’s hard but have you tried doing a job total woke idiots have been doing the past few years? People said the same about X and it’s been going fine. The only threat to the company is woke companies like Disney trying to boycott it. But I’m sure enough woke people will stay around to support Disney like you no matter how much destruction they create. You can’t do worse than the current leadership of Disney, musk would be a massive improvement.

[@ComeAlongKay]

@bananarama1425also Musk mostly only annoys stupid people who want to push horrific politics. Also are you serious? Iger has run the place for years and is despised, he’s at war with the richest man in earth and the governor and people of the state Disney’s largest park is in. Musk has done good Iger has only done all he can to dishonor Walt Disney and all his company was about and to bury its history. You’re saying what you’re saying because you personally don’t like Musk and you don’t like him weakening the dictatorship control of leftists and you’re trying to make it out like everyone is like that. Just leftists and similarly stupid people think like that. Musk has done nothing wrong and infringed on no one, he’s bought companies and is allowed to and improved all that he’s touched. Leftist just throw a hissy fit when they lose power, they can’t stand have total power. That’s the only reason they’re upset.

[@ComeAlongKay]

@bananarama1425you guys are jealous of him being successful and also that’s not what a monopoly is. Monopoly is what bill gates was charged with when he had total control over one industry. Owning multiple companies in different areas isn’t a monopoly, also many others purchased X along with him and he’d do the same with Disney if he did which mostly Peltz is leading the attack their so he may help him but Peltz would probably be the one to actually go change things. Peltz has led many other companies back from disaster just as musk has. How many commoners have you successfully built by the way? You dint think he’s smart and he made himself a billionaire after building one successful company after the others so what have you done? Also musk is great with employees who don’t suck, he had to fire X employees because so many of them were useless woke hires for dumb made up woke positions. The employees who don’t like him are woke people who want to censor the right and they’re annoyed he’s not doing that and that he opened the files and showed how in bed with the government X was.

[@mav1877]

I'm not a fan of Musk or Kennedy. I don't think Disney would improve much under Musk's management. He hasn't really done that much with X imo

[@zzygyy]

He cleaned X of bloat. How many people did he cut loose? X is a company in transition.

[@Ilikeavocados123]

@@zzygyy its been more than year 💀

[@zzygyy]

@@Ilikeavocados123 and??? Your point?

[@ethanwinnegrad3402]

Hes made is a (mostly) free speec zone

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@@ethanwinnegrad3402 "Free speech" to say racial slurs and dogpile random people in brain-dead culture war battles. What an improvement. Can't roll my eyes harder without them falling out of my skull.

[@DaveAtUofL]

So the board wouldn't vote to sell disney for less than what the market evaluation is. Elon famously had to overpay for Twitter. You are looking at a 15 - 30% over market valuation markup for enough of the share holders to take it.

[@gentronseven]

He's not buying it alone, there's another huge conglomeration behind it, but I can imagine they want his face on it. Imagine the message it would send for how Disney is turning around.

[@chrisclement5091]

Thats not true at all lmao. THey originally wanted way over market value, and he argued for way less and they ultimately marked it up..but was still well below the original offer.

[@DaveAtUofL]

@@chrisclement5091 Bro, no that's just false. He threw out a meme number per share and that's pretty much what he had to buy it for. He didn't negotiate anything down. You might want to go back and research that. He got stuck with it after crypto crashed.

[@DaveAtUofL]

@@gentronseven Not sure who else would join him on another venture after how Twitter went. If I was a bank I'd be very concerned about going in with him, and as polarizing as he is, I doubt any major investor would want him to be the face of a family entertainment company lol.

[@gentronseven]

@@DaveAtUofL Twitter hasn't turned out badly, he cut costs 75% and the user base has largely stayed. The books are no longer public, but financially, whether or not you agree with him, it was likely a massive success. Disney is already just as polarizing except they're on the left, believe it or not. The big problem is leftists by and large don't have kids, so he's the perfect person to run it. There already are major investors buying up shares of Disney with allegedly the same ideas, it's not impossible although blackrock and other leftwing organizations may start to buy the rest of the shares if it gets far enough.

[@125ZJK]

If that is the case perhaps he'll follow his Twitter/X model and get rid of a lot of the "dead wood" !

[@danielmcgriskin2104]

To be honest Disney needs a new CEO and Bob Igor has to go

[@trenwilson6613]

I can't help but wonder if Elon didn't see an opportunity with the lawsuit that Gina has filed. The lawsuit could seriously hart Disney and drop their market price even lower making it an easier acquisition than it is now. As a side note, do I think that this is the reason he filed the lawsuit, not really, I think he may believe in Gina's case and that is why he had his lawyers take the case, the easier acquisition of Disney, a bonus.

[@SenseiBlue]

This take 😂😂 Gina Carano’s lawsuit will do nothing to Disney’s stock. It barely registers to shareholders as it’s not an existential threat to Disney’s business model. The FL lawsuits/counter-suits about Disney’s special district was a bigger deal to that Company by magnitudes. This isn’t anywhere near that. And the stock tanking? Not sure if you know how capital markets work but Musk sniffing around will do nothing to tank Disney stock. If anything it will drive UP the price. That’s what happens when there is speculation of a takeover. Shareholders pile IN in hopes of getting a premium for the sale and to drive up the offering price. (See what happened to Twitter and why most believe Elon overpaid for the company). The FL lawsuit didn’t sink Disney (fundamentals were a bigger problem), this lawsuit will barely register as a catalyst for DIS to lose value.

[@DarrinBell]

She doesn't have a case. Employers can fire someone over their social media posts if they believe those posts will offend their customers or clients. This won't hurt Disney one bit. But it will make anyone else think twice about hiring Gina Carano, someone who's just proven she'll probably sue if they ever chose to fire her.

[@SirStanleytheStumbler]

Could have sworn that's price fixing even if true.

[@donalddouds6033]

@@DarrinBellwhile true that does not allow that company to publicly defame that person and through that defamation result in loss of representation.

[@brother_bear_one7340]

Gina's lawsuit won't have that much an effect. The much larger threat is from the vacuum left by families that Disney antagonized into walking away.

[@bpipe3688]

Make a Star Wars Universe Public Domain. Everyone can create their own characters but can’t effect galactic or Skywalker matters. Disney gets first dibs on any character, event, or location made in the SWUPD.

[@waltciii3]

Oh if you haven't imagined how f---d Disney could get... Wait for a non film guy to run the company. He doesn't care about art like young Lucas did. And always remember the prequels sucked... before the cartoons saved them...

[@77Pictures]

And his interest has zero to do with love for the art or company. He's still got his undies in a bunch over Disney not advertising for him. This is purely ego.

[@OnlyOneKenobi]

Let's hope it frickin happens! 🙏 🤞🏻

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

"X is no longer the powerhouse that it was--" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ah, media, as Yoda would say, "So certain are you?"

[@Excellent171]

If this happens, i will cry tears of joy

[@RayzaNC]

Ever considered getting a life?

[@josephmaller592]

Would this affect Pixar or Marvel or any other companies that Disney ownes?

[@ABanRocks]

Elon isn't buying Disney. He is just a troll and just trolling around.

[@josephmaller592]

@@ABanRocks Trolling us or not. It did get a lot of people talking about it.

[@ABanRocks]

@josephmaller592 yes which is feeding his ego and making him troll more. Elon is very smart but he is also an asshole.

[@billylocke9633]

Disney is simply too big for Elon to buy out. We are stuck with the leadership at Lucas Film until we aren’t.. the only way to save LF/Disney is Disney themselves. Don’t hold your breath

[@partydave1067]

Well the mote they fial the easier it is likely to be for Elon Musk to buy it

[@boyzinthewood1]

Not a cat in hells chance this will happen

[@tommoore2012]

They said the same thing about Twitter when it was just a rumor.

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

Lets bet on it!

[@redbearington3345]

​@tommoore2012 twitters net worth was 1/4 of Disney's and he had money then. It's not happening because he can't afford it. He doesn't have the money, and a bank isn't going to loan him his entire net worth to do it

[@Ally.Cat.252]

Never heard that saying before

[@BB-mt5no]

@@tommoore2012 He bought Twitter for $44 billion and the value has gone down 72%. Tesla is down over $100 billion. Disney is at $200 billion on the market. If Elon sold everything he owns he still couldn't afford it. He already regrets overpaying for Twitter which he tried to back out of multiple times. You have no clue what you are talking about if you think Elon can buy Disney. To get enough shares to have any control he'd have to pay over market value. Current shareholders aren't going to agree to sell otherwise.

[@sdrawk3611]

How much of his own companies would he have to sell to be able to buy Disney? I don't think its possible. Interesting thought experiment.

[@gentronseven]

He can just borrow the money, and he doesn't need $190 billion to become the largest share holder in a group with a majority of shares.

[@PrinceDaemonTargaryen]

​@gentronseven you can't just borrow that kind of money short term without a reasonable and quick way to pay it off.

[@gentronseven]

@@PrinceDaemonTargaryen you can as long as you have collateral, he can pledge Tesla and SpaceX shares and whatever else he owns. Lending is all about collateral. Realistically, it's another $20-40 billion for Elon and his allies to take control of the company.

[@PrinceDaemonTargaryen]

@@gentronseven it would mean him investing a considerable amount of his wealth into something that may not give him back that money in the short to mid term especially when he's funding a rather minor legal battle with them.

[@gentronseven]

​@@PrinceDaemonTargaryen He doesn't care about $40 billion, he cares more about his legacy. If this is what he thinks will expand his legacy then he will probably find a way. If his networth became $160 billion, what difference would it make.

[@chronicmayhem]

I actually liked Obi-Wan show in terms to when it was focused solely on obi wan and Anakin/vader and Mandatorian s3

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Clone wars too

[@RegBeta]

Both were half-assed

[@permeus2nd]

I think it’s wishful thinking from some fans. I mean has he got the money to do it yes but it’s not as easy as that (sadly) at least that’s my understanding, so twitter was/is a privately owned business but I believe that Disney is a publicly traded business so I think the best he could do is buy up a majority of the shares but it would be a massive pain in the ass to pull off it would also take a fair bit of time at least to do it without making each share cost a small Fortune, it isn’t like in batman begins he was able to do that so fast because it was day zero of Wayne Enterprises been traded and luckily he had a lot of private fronts basically to stop them from seeing one individual from buying a majority stake in the business, this is done to stop other businesses from doing a hostile takeover as that’s kinda frowned upon nowadays. So on a personal note ied love it if he did somehow buy Disney as it would annoy the hell out of the extreme left zealots (I’m not a right or left person I’m a common sense’ist I hate the extreme right zealot’s just as much as the other side) it was funny seeing them denounce twitter and swear that they would stop using it but their still on the platform months later complaining. Do I actually think him buying it would “”fix”” Disney? No not really at least not in the flip a switch kinda way that people are hoping as you can’t turn a ship that size on a dime it takes a long time to move it so we’re talking years before we see any real changes not like he will buy it anyway.

[@AlwaysVotingMAGA]

It's crazy that Disney has totally screwed up the one thing that was supposed to be their grand slam home run.... The Sequel Trilogy. It's total trash & not canon at all.

[@BackupBAGChannel]

The intro is so loud when I’m wearing my noise canceling headphones compared to your voice in the video.

[@theghastlygamer5326]

Even if disney was selling, there is no way they would let him buy it

[@warrenwymore6631]

That’s not how it works my guy

[@MrNeighSayer]

He doesn't need to buy it. He just need to team up with someone like Peltz to become the majority shareholders.

[@bryant8235]

51% of the shareholders not the board.

[@galacticforge77]

I might be wrong, as I certainly cannot predict the future, but I don't think Elon Musk will buy Disney. A quick Google search tells me that as of today, Disney is worth approximately just over $202 billion US dollars. For Musk to buy Disney, his executive board of directors would have to agree as to whether it is a wise investment or not, and I believe Disney's own executive board would have to agree with the negotiations for purchase. We shouldn't make assumptions, but I would assume that his board would look at the financial success of their most recent purchase, being Twitter (or 'X' as it's referred to). Personally, and not to go off-topic, I used to like Elon Musk, but I found his behaviour regarding the Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand to be quite disrespectful and poor, after he went on to call one of the rescuers of that incident a not-nice-thing, so to speak, because they disagreed with his (Musk's) idea(s) for the rescue. Anyway. We'll see what happens!

[@dk_3765]

i hope legends gets made to be canon or at least an alt timeline

[@donaldbell2554]

be so awesome