Overview
- Multiple outlets report Friday that Disney hired high-profile attorney Charles Harder after Puck News detailed an aggressive response to the forthcoming book.
- The letters Harder sent to publisher HarperCollins seek details about the manuscript and criticize author Robbie Whelan, according to the reports.
- Publishing chatter frames the book as an unvarnished look at Iger’s 2020 exit and 2022 return, and Disney has declined to cooperate with the author.
- The project is by Wall Street Journal reporter Robbie Whelan with the working title The House of Mouse, and no release date has been announced.
- Reports say Disney may argue that sources, potentially including former CEO Bob Chapek and other ex-employees, violated NDAs, while Iger advances his own Random House book to shape the narrative.