With Bob Iger’s Disney contract expiring Jan. 1, all eyes are on the manager chairman’s subsequent transfer. Among the many big selection of potentialities is writing a follow-up to his memoir, The Journey of a Lifetime: Classes Realized From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Firm.
Sources inform The Hollywood Reporter that Iger has been quietly engaged on a followup to his e book, which hit The New York Instances best-seller listing upon its launch in September 2019; he apparently has loads of materials to proceed on one other Journey.
“I’m definitely hoping there can be one other one,” says Iger’s powerhouse e book gent, ICM’s Esther Newberg, who notes that she hasn’t seen any pages but.
Although Journey was revealed by Random Home, a follow-up wouldn’t essentially land with the publishing big provided that Newberg negotiated only a one-book deal again in 2016.
Nonetheless, Random Home would get a primary crack contemplating that the CEO loved a straightforward rapport with the corporate’s exec vp and writer Andy Ward. In 2019, Iger launched into a media tour to advertise the e book that noticed the manager give interviews to a number of shops and seem on reveals like Jimmy Kimmel Dwell and The Ellen Present.
Different post-Disney choices that Iger has toyed with embrace an ambassadorship. Iger had been included on President Joe Biden’s want listing for a key ambassador publish, particularly China or the U.Okay., THR has reported. However that political prospect seems to be off the desk.
Says one business insider who’s plugged in to the Biden administration and near Iger, “He’s not precisely leaping up and down for an task.”
This story first appeared within the Nov. 3 subject of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.
