Quote from: Stitch on Aug 09, 2019, 12:17:22 PM
I think Alien and Predator are just not in Disney's wheelhouse. They're never going to make Marvel money, and so they'll never get the budget they need, if they ever get a future at all.
I think they'll just sell the franchises. Maybe to Blumhouse.
As I've said before, at least with Predator it doesn't cost that much to make (Predators was 40 million and they still pulled it off). They are on the lower end of the spectrum and you get a decent haul out of them. The money has always been in the merchandise anyways and you get that on far less of a budget. Even the original film if adjusted for inflation it roughly comes out a little less than what it cost to make Predators. Predator 2 is a different story assuming Google's figure was correct, but given they'd actually been shooting on location I'd be able to see why it was so high.
Disney is also unlikely to sell off assets since gaining them was in part to wanting the back catalogue anyways. It's cheap, merchandise still moves, and you only have to make one every handful of years. So it's very much a low-risk investment. The films being out of commission doesn't mean other products wont move either. We still got toys, novels, comics, and games which Disney stands to benefit off of. Yeah it's not Marvel money,but neither is Oswald the lucky rabbit.
