Top Gun was a success because it was simple escapist fun and offered audiences a legitimate visual spectacle. Rogue squadron would have been a CGI crap-fest (since good CGI artists seem to have blacklisted Disney) and Disney has been batting a real low percentage for their Star Wars and Marvel brands of late.
Disney has been forced to accept they've been applying a losing strategy to Marvel and Star Wars and are massively downsizing. 7,000 employees fired and $5.5B in cuts, $3B of that is cuts to content creation. Is Disney willing to accept that Star Wars and Marvel only really succeed when they try to be escapist fun for teenage boys and that "modern audiences" don't actually care about these brands? Or is Disney so ideologically possessed that they're going down with the ship?
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