This is of course the best case scenario, but what's the actual likelihood of this? I find it hard to believe that Fox would part with the rights over a couple of television rights, despite their lack of competence in adapting it.
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FX orders "Legion" Pilot, produced by FOX and Marvel Television
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This is of course the best case scenario, but what's the actual likelihood of this? I find it hard to believe that Fox would part with the rights over a couple of television rights, despite their lack of competence in adapting it.
The IP is worthless under Fox now, so I doubt it's worth much now in Fox's hands.
darkhunger
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Now that Marvel Studios isn't even under the Marvel umbrella, I doubt this deal has anything to do with movie rights.
A mutant run detective agency, it writes itself
Arent' these guys a bunch of assholes though? Then again marvels mutants all are.
It still somewhat is. Getting the F4 rights back means more characters that can be used on ABC & Netflix's MCU shows.
That's fine by me. What I really want in the MCU is what everyone does: Doom. But getting all of the other cosmic characters, plus the 4 themselves would be amazing.
Well M is an asshole, but that seems to be genetic. The rest are nice, Wolvesbane did some sketchy shit with a young dude, and Multiple Man won't ever be elected father of the year. But other other then that they are pretty chill
LucidMomentum
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It pains me what we aren't getting in the MCU with the exclusion of the X-men and F4.
The fact that FOX can't get out of the 60s-80s in regards to storylines, even more so.
Followed by Fox's order of The Neo
Excellent question, I would theorize that sanitized mental illness is" hot" on tv right now and this is a chance to capitalize on the trend.
Looking forward to a Doop show on Fox next fall.
rocketskates
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Galactus
RatskyWatsky
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Choppasmith
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Yeah, can't say I care much about the shows themselves so much as what Marvel might be getting out of this deal.
Same here. Marvel had to get something out of this deal. I can't see them doing this with Fox without them getting something in return.
Choppasmith
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Mentioned this in the other thread but, Screerant seems to think there just might be a connection between this and to those three mysterious 2020 movie dates.
It's happening!
Hmmm...Wonder if this had to do with that Inhumans cancelation rumor, too?
Mass_Pincup
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The Fargo dude? I'm in.
voodoopanda
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if they're making x-universe tv shows now, where's my x-statix reality tv show
There are dozens of you, dozens!!!
Captin Quacker
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So is there even a slight chance we'll see MOJO or spiral
No, god they would butcher Mojo and Spiral is my waifu.
Mr. Pointy
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What if Marvel Film is getting nothing out of this because Perlmutter is trying to fuck over Feige?
Captin Quacker
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Don't see how, just channel the biggest greediest, soul crushing, asshole tv executive you can think of
Something Star Wars related? Doesn't Disney need Fox's approval anytime they want to distribute the original trilogy? I mean I'm sure Fox likes making money, but maybe something went down to make the whole process easier. Marvel wasn't going to touch the X-Men anyway without the movie rights, so wins all around.
Sho_Nuff82
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Fantastic Four: Rise of Atillan confirmed.
Zeyphersan
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Fox still has distribution for A New Hope, not the others
Captin Quacker
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Actually I just remembered what MOJO looks like
That's not gonna transition well to live action TV
Scientist Supreme!
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Interesting properties. I want to see what they do with these things that,judging by this thread, most don't care about.
Sho_Nuff82
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This thread and the Black Bolt/Maximus clip you posted the other day made me realize that I want this, and I can't have it. Why do Fox and Marvel hate me?
And Johnny gets around, damn.
Your friend is a masterful troll.
WrenchNinja
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Xavier's kid with the shitty hair? Nah son
Is it me but isn't it dirty that Johnny moved from one sister to another? Inhuman thanksgiving going to be interesting.
Captin Quacker
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You know they going to be like
Medusa:"Master of the 4 elements but can't keep a man"
Crystal:"Be careful Johnny, ALL of her hair is as strong as steel. Don't break your teeth"
Karnak:"Who wants to hear my mixtape?"
Seems like Rachel Keller has been cast as the female lead for the show
http://deadline.com/2016/01/legion-marvel-pilot-rachel-keller-cast-fx-1201676226/
http://deadline.com/2016/01/legion-marvel-pilot-rachel-keller-cast-fx-1201676226/
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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So what did Marvel get in return for this? Fox says they still own the FF movie rights, so what could they possibly have gotten?
Probably just money.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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It's not like they are hurting for money. It make more sense to either get some of their characters back or change the terms of the contract and, for example, put an expiration date on the movie rights.
RatskyWatsky
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Awesome. She was great in Fargo.
Well, we knew Marvel TV was involved with the production of this and Hellfire
Or... money
I mean they get a revenue source without having to do much leg work.
Similar to their Sony/Spider-man deal
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Gonna have to disagree with you.
They already get plenty of revenue source right now from FOX without lifting a finger from their XMen/FF movies. They are making bank on their movies/TV shows/Merchandising. They don't need an extra revenue stream when they could get rights to their characters or put an expiry date so they could eventually get them back. It would be an extremely short term strategy to give up the rights to a TV show to FOX for just a licensing fee. FOX owns movie rights to some of Marvel properties that they know they could make plenty of money on and would like them back.
Marvel offered FOX the option to extend the film rights to daredevil in exchange for FF/Galactus/Silver Surfer/Skrulls/Dr.Doom or probably a combination of the above. FOX declined. I think it's pretty obvious what Marvel wants and probably asked for
Marvel/Sony's deal is completely different. Disney bought the merchandising rights to Spidey in exchange for not getting a share of the movies in 2011. It's not like Marvel gave sony the rights to make ironman tv for royalty fees. They are getting Spidey showing up on MCU in exchange for creative ideas and possibly character cross overs into the next spiderman.
I just 100% disagree with you that Marvel/Disney would okay, not one, but two XMen TV rights to Fox for cash when Fox holds some very important Marvel movie rights. That would be extremely short term and, IMHO, stupid.
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