Tim Sweeney, head of Epic Games, denied the claims published by the Wall Street Journal of Frustration in a company regarding Disney working relations.
Yesterday WSJ The report contained fresh details about the mysterious upcoming Disney Fortnite mode, developed after the investment of the latter USD 1.5 billion in epic games. The report stated that the offer will not be launched only “autumn 2026”, and some epic managers complaining about “slow decision of making decisions in Disney, with signatures needed from so many different divisions.”
This is a claim that Sweeney has now overthrown through post in social media, which they call the suggestion “BS”.
“Anonymous quote is BS,” Sweeney wrote. “The speed of cooperation between Disney and epic cooperation, such as Darth Vader, was amazing and amounts to about 10 -the speed of the media company’s contacts in this business. We even presented a statement of this article, but they decided not to print it.”
Epic Games Big Disney cooperation was announced in February 2024, although the details on this subject remained largely. The initial conceptual works for the project contained a virtual environment in the Disneyland style, with centers related to Disney’s main brands. Exactly what the players will do about it, will just turn out.
The WSJ report states that the project is supervised in Disney by Josh d’Amaro, the head of Disney Parks and Resorts, who visited Sweeney and spent time on wandering with CEO. One of the alleged problems related to the project were elements created by fans, with raised questions that can legally have a dance that uses Disney characters.
Epic Games and Disney have organized deep cooperation in recent years, with Marvel and Star Wars seasons and countless characters now available as Fortnite skins, including the choice of Pixar Films, and even Disney Classic Animation.
The companies have recently used Fortnite to test Darth Vader powered by artificial intelligence, who could talk to players using generative speech. After starting, the concept required an urgent correction after the fans quickly made Darth Vader say things that he should not, although ultimately over 10 million players talked to Lord Sith.
This week, Fortnite goes to the next season, in which her main island of the Battle of Royale is infected with mutated worms and additional characters from Halo brought to aid. Meanwhile, in the OG mode in the game, the action moves to the beloved season 5 Fortnite, which should see the appearance of Kevin The Cube-Ogic games are great at the story of this re-number, so not.
Tom Phillips is the editor of Ign. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on BlueSky @tomphillipseg.bsky.Social
