Sean Callagy

And in fact, when I was at Disney, I was with Kevin Mayer, our mutual friend in corporate development and strategic planning, right?

And I knew that creatively was really where my passion was.

And the only way I could do both analytics and creative was to have my own studio and make myself chairman.

So the reason I had the thought to do Marvel Studios was I wanted to solve that puzzle.

And then secondly, I knew I could try to become studio chairman.

They're the only people that can be whatever they want to do because they're the boss.

And I could work my way up one of the six studios, but that would take 20 years.

And more importantly, I would have lost my soul.

I would have had to become a different person.

And Marvel was

a cocoon for me where I had my, you know, I could play as studio chairman and not change the playfulness and the way I wanted to be personality-wise.

So when I think about universes,

Marvel, I didn't have to look at a second one, because I just instinctively saw they live in the same universe in the comics.

These characters are so deep in terms of who they are, even outside of being superheroes, that there is... And it was a combination that...

The movies would be new to most 99% of the world, so they discover it.

And discovery is so enjoyable for people.

They discover it with their friends or their kids or their parents.

But there's a legacy that it's built on so that people realize, wow, there's like gravitas to it and stuff I can geek out on and go into.

So it had that great combination of legacy, but still new to people, and a natural universe.

And after Marvel, I quickly found something else I thought could be not a universe, but