Disney CEO Bob Chapek weighs in on Scarlett Johansson controversy

In as many words as possible Disney confronted publicly the controversy with their Black Widow actress Scarlett Johansson who sued the studio for cutting her money by making the film available both in theatres and their streamer simultaneously.

At the Goldman Sachs' 30th annual Communacopia Conference, Disney CEO Bob Chapek was asked about the compensation of Hollywood talent going forward in the wake of Scarlett Johansson controversy. He said, "Disney has had a long history of having very symbiotic and cooperative deals with the talent and we will continue to."

"Certainly the world is changing, and the talent deals going forward will have to reflect the fact that the world is changing. We're in a moment of time where films were envisioned under one understanding about what the world would be, because frankly it hadn't changed much," he said.

He added, "Remember, those films were made three or four years ago; those deals were cut three or four years ago. Then they get launched in the middle of a global pandemic where that pandemic itself is accelerating a second dynamic, which is this changing consumer behavior. So we're sort of putting a square peg in a round hole right now where we've got a deal conceived under a certain set of conditions, that actually results in a movie that is being released in a completely different set of conditions." (IANS)

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