Steve Jobs to Sell Pixar and Join Disney Board? 274
mikeisme77 writes "According to the Washington Post, Pixar Studios is in discussions with Disney for a possible merger/buy out. Disney would own Pixar in exchange for $6.7 billion worth of stock in the Walt Disney Corp. Speculation has also arisen that such a deal may lead to Steve Jobs earning a position on Disney's board of directors. He would likely become Disney's largest individual share holder. Further speculation sees Jobs using his new found power to leverage Disney into releasing more content to the iTunes media service." Details also available from the Time Magazine site. We touched on this issue near the end of last year as well.
Re:You can't buy talent (Score:3, Informative)
Steve Jobs != Pixar (Score:2, Informative)
Jobs came up with the original plan to start Pixar, and the money to do it, but he has basically no creative control there. It's run by other people.
Re:You can't buy talent (Score:3, Informative)
(Taken from here [cnn.com])
Now if Pixar (as it is today) is in charge of later remakes they will actually be good; I shudder to think how Disney would do making sequals to The Incredibles or even Finding Nemo. This would be a good thing as long as Disney doesn't destroy Pixar.
Re:Steve Jobs != Pixar (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Jobs To Take Eisner Job? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Disney + Pixar = Bad combination (Score:2, Informative)
The last film Lasseter wrote and directed was Toy Story 2.
Brad Bird wrote and directed The Incredibles [imdb.com]
Andrew Staton wrote and directed Finding Nemo [imdb.com]
Peter Docter directed and Andrew Staton wrote Monsters Inc. [imdb.com]
While Lasseter served as Executive Producer on these films that role is mainly production management and not creative. I'm not saying Lasseter isn't talented, he is. Its just that Pixar's success is the union of great management, R&D and arists.