Iger return, change in tone may signal desire to sell Disney, Wrap speculates

Peter Csathy wrote in a piece for The Wrap Pro published earlier today that Bob Iger’s “uncharacteristic antagonism toward strikers may point to the corporate chief’s M&A state of mind,” adding that Iger’s “sudden about-face” may be because “he’s got an industry upending deal – a sale of Disney – on his mind, and his primary audience is Wall Street, not Hollywood talent.” Analysts “strongly believe Iger is considering a sale of Mouse House assets” and “this may well explain why Iger returned last November in the first place,” speculated the author, who added: “For a man who had done it all at Disney, transforming the company into a franchise mega-hit machine with Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar and the Fox studio, why come back unless you have one more career-capping act in mind?”