Bob Iger left Disney’s CEO post just before COVID exploded. Will his second exit be followed by a plot twist?

Hollywood and Wall Street have learned to roll their eyes when Disney CEO Bob Iger says he’s stepping down. In the years since Iger took the CEO job in 2005, he scheduled and then postponed his retirement four times before he eventually handed over the CEO position to parks chief Bob Chapek in 2020—and then took it back about three years later. Is this, finally, the real thing?

It sure seems like it. The company announced today that, at long last, Iger will soon step down as Walt Disney’s CEO...