How Disney’s Villains Land Is Getting Reimagined Under Josh D’Amaro | Exclusive

The roar was deafening.

In 2024, Josh D’Amaro, then head of Disney’s theme park division and now newly knighted CEO of the whole company, took the stage in Anaheim, California, for D23, a sort of all-Disney Comic-Con, to unveil a land themed to the media giant’s roster of memorable villains coming to Walt Disney World. The crowd erupted in thunderous applause.

“We love our Disney Villains right?” D’Amaro, nary a hair out of place, asked the gathered sea of Disney fans, decked out in their theme park finery.