The often polarizing 80-year-old executive left the company as part of its cost-cutting measures.
According to the NYT, which described Perlmutter as “famously frugal” as well as an “irascible and unrelenting executive,” the company decided that “Marvel Entertainment, a small division centered on consumer products and run separately from Marvel Studios, was redundant and would be folded into larger Disney business units.
involving an attempted and ultimately unsuccessful shake-up of Disney’s board. It’s worth noting he’s the one behind to Disney, but he hasn’t had a hand in Marvel movies “since 2015, when when a feud with [Kevin] Feige over costs related toboiled over,” or a hand in Marvel TV shows since 2019. Per the Times, his arena of control had thereafter narrowed to comics and “Marvel game licensing, certain consumer products and superhero arena shows.”
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