10 Reasons Why Disney's Fox Takeover Is Terrifying

10. Franchise Burnout

Remember the days when you could go to the cinema and see more than one film that was a completely original work? The descent of cinema into relying on movies based on something that already exists (be it other movies, books, or real events) started before Disney dived headfirst into it by buying Marvel, but it took to it like a (Donald) duck to water, and now it’s getting boring.

The current franchise war is nothing new, but Disney are almost certainly about to step things up a gear since the Fox properties cost a quarter of the parent company, and Disney absolutely won't be resting on their laurels.

Anything remotely profitable will be remade, rebooted, and refreshed, and the already crowded market will be filled out with more and more films and TV shows that we’ve seen before. Especially since other companies will follow Disney’s lead to keep up their market share.

And, to be fair, on the whole, Disney does remakes and revivals pretty well, but you can only push a person’s nostalgia buttons so much before they get tired of it all. Something made clear by the fact that the nostalgia boom is now moving on to targeting people in their early twenties, which means that we'll probably be seeing a High School Musical reboot by the end of the decade.