Now they buy Lucasfilm and all of the sudden dope new Star Wars movies are releasing every year, and it's supposedly just a coincidence? Nah. They know what they're doing.
No, it's not a
coincidence. But it's not mostly "Disney," either.
The Force Awakens had Iger interested & involved, but a
large part of why that movie looks and sounds the way it does is due to the creative team that Kennedy put together, and the reason that team had the time it did to get the movie made was because Kennedy & Abrams apparently had to fight (and win) that December start date. Lucasfilm was allowed to handle the
large majority of that film's problems internally, without having to go outside to Iger and/or Horn for help.
And with Rogue One, which was apparently even
more troubled as a production, the involvement of Disney executives was even
less.
The Lucasfilm of 2012/2013 was
not the same Lucasfilm as the one in 2005, which was the last time a movie got released (that business w/ the Clone Wars movie doesn't... doesn't count). Kennedy isn't Lucas. And the executives in charge now have their own methodologies.
Also: Video Game development & publishing and film production aren't
really the same thing at all.
Basically, you're still more or less just pushing the idea that if there's a success, it has to belong to the parent company, ultimately, which shorts credit for the people who
actually got the movie made, as opposed to the people who primarily
paid the people who did that work.
Nobody's pushing the narrative that Disney are just lucky fools with money, either. It's not an either or. You have to be pretty smart to recognize talent, and you have to also be smart not to hinder or squash it. If you have good people doing good work, why would you want to rush in and step all over it? If you're insecure about your credits, then yeah, I can see that being a reason. It's not a good reason, but it's enough of a reason that it's a fairly well-told tale in Hollywood history.
But it seems like Iger/Horn aren't that insecure. And Feige isn't either. Neither is Lasseter, and Kathleen Kennedy sure isn't.
So you have a bunch of confident, talented, smart executives all working with talented, smart, confident creatives, all being bankrolled by confident, talented owners.
Why is the automatic assumption that the success that comes from that makeup is a success that can best be described via the Svengali Mickey narrative?