Bog Iger Spilled Disney Fumbles During Exit Interview.

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Bob Iger, who stepped down from his second stint as Disney CEO in March, gave an exit interview to Financial Times in which he revealed that he tried to acquire the James Bond franchise for Disney amid a spending spree that included the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars.” Pixar was priority number one for Iger, and the studio “felt unstoppable” when it acquired Pixar in May 2006 for $7.4 billion.

“It was like the clouds lifted and the sun started to shine again,” Iger said. “We put together a list of acquisition targets. Marvel was one, ‘Star Wars’ was another, James Bond was one. We had a list and I figured let’s just tick them off and buy them all.”

James Bond is the franchise that got away (Amazon is its current owner). Other companies did, too. Iger told FT that he was close to buying Twitter from owner Jack Dorsey “at a very attractive price.” The plan was to turn Twitter into a global distribution platform for Disney, but Iger admitted he got cold feet on the morning of the deal and worried it would be “a horrible distraction.” Elon Musk ended up buying Twitter and transforming it into X.

Disney also flirted with an Apple merger. Iger first revealed in his 2019 memoir that he believed the two companies would’ve combined or “at least discussed the possibility” of merging “very seriously” if Steve Jobs “were still alive.” But now Iger revealed that “some conversations” did actually take place between Apple and Disney about a merger that Iger thinks would have been “truly transformational and equal.”

“We talked about it internally, and we had some conversations with Apple about it, but it never went anywhere,” Iger said. Apple didn’t show that much interest.”

 

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/disney-failed-buy-james-bond-twitter-apple-bob-iger-1236788523/

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Can't imagine how Twitter like if Disney owned it, but can't be much worse that what is now, right? 

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Thankfully PIXAR is still a seperate company and has slowly gotten back on track. 

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3 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

James Bond is the franchise that got away (Amazon is its current owner)

This was a big deal when it happened, but it honestly feels like one the saddest developments of recent cinema & it hasn't even fully set in yet.

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I'mma need someone to shut this game of Monopoly down.

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I for one, cannot imagine a James Bond franchise under Disney. 

Chris Pratt as Bond, Zendaya as the bond girl, Scarlett Johanssen as the villain. 
 

Imagine Dragons does the theme song but they insert AvaMAxxx and Born to Be Wild into the movie somewhere. 

Bond asks for a shaken not stirred MickeyMilkshake or something. ugh

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1 minute ago, Ceres said:

I for one, cannot imagine a James Bond franchise under Disney. 

Chris Pratt as Bond, Zendaya as the bond girl, Scarlett Johanssen as the villain. 
 

Imagine Dragons does the theme song but they insert AvaMAxxx and Born to Be Wild into the movie somewhere. 

Bond asks for a shaken not stirred MickeyMilkshake or something. ugh

You just punched me in the throat, through the internet

Eon Productions was its only home

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2 minutes ago, Ceres said:

I for one, cannot imagine a James Bond franchise under Disney. 

Chris Pratt as Bond, Zendaya as the bond girl, Scarlett Johanssen as the villain. 
 

Imagine Dragons does the theme song but they insert AvaMAxxx and Born to Be Wild into the movie somewhere. 

Bond asks for a shaken not stirred MickeyMilkshake or something. ugh

** Timothee Chalamet as the villain lets be real

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3 minutes ago, Ceres said:

** Timothee Chalamet as the villain lets be real

Timothee is Warner bros golden boy, he got first look feature film deal with the studio, doubt he will do Disney movies currently. 

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I love tea like this 

interesting to imagine 

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Come up with original content, do that challenge. Everything these days has to be the prequel of a sequel of a reboot.

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Evil.