Margaret Loesch
Margaret Loesch is an American television executive. She is the former president and CEO of Marvel Productions, and during her time with the company was one of the producers of the original Transformers cartoon and an executive producer on The Transformers: The Movie. Jim Shooter has said there was bad blood between Productions and Marvel Comics that wasn't ended until Loesch took over the company and improved relations. [1]
Loesch had to strike a balance between creative independence and financial reality, and was eventually forced into a standoff with Hasbro when the company asked them to write scripts but "leave blank the characters" until they figured out what toy they wanted in that episode. Loesch told Hasbro "we can't do this" and forced the them to give the animation companies more leeway. [2]
In 2010 she returned to Transformers and Hasbro alike when she was hired to head "The Hub," the joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications. As such, she oversees the production of Transformers: Prime.
References
- ↑ Jim Shooter: Secret Origin of the Transformers Part 1
- ↑ Toy Wars, G. Wayne Miller, pg. 140.
