illmatic22
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Editor in Chief at collider.com says it's not true.
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Rumour: Marvel have struck a deal with Fox for Fantastic Four film rights
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Discotheque
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no surprise you're one of those kind of fans lol.....
Maybe an Avengers vs. X-Men crossover film ala Secret Wars or House of M.
PadWarrior
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Could see Adam warlock now if this is true
Chris Evans beating the shit out of channing Tatum? Yes please
krameriffic
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PogChamp
Marvel was going out of business in the early 90s and had to sell the film rights of their popular properties to survive.
Spider-Man went to Sony and Fantastic Four/X-Men went to Fox. All their other franchises were also sold (Hulk, Cap, Iron Man, Daredevil), but the rights reverted back to Marvel after a certain amount of time.
At this point, all the rights have reverted back besides X-Men and possibly Fantastic Four. Marvel and Sony worked out a deal to allow Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Sony still technically owns the film rights to the character.
Did not see GotG?
Brainiac 8
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I don't care about them trying another F4 movie, I just want Marvel to have the rights back so they can use Doom, one of the best villains in the Marvel stable.
Cpt.Underpants
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boooooo
George Oscar Bluth II
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The bankruptcy issue was solved before any films rights were sold. They sold them to make a quick buck.
Very interesting. Thanks, mate. I really need to brush up on my knowledge of how the movie business really works and how movie earnings are really divided.
Nonetheless, that information only proves my point. In comparison to giving away a dead in the water film franchise like the rebooted FF, people who are hoping that Fox will be willing to give away something as profitable as the X:Men franchise are only kidding themselves. And the way I see it, that's a really good thing. In their individual stylized universes, I sort of feel it would be best to keep those two worlds separate, in-tune with their own very different sensibilities. The X:Men inhabit a very defined and definite version of the world where paranoia and mutant hatred runs rampant...where certain characters and institutions loom large. Mixing all the character's and their baggage in to the MCU wouldn't only feel kind of messy at this point, as someone pointed out earlier, it would only steal the spotlight from more deserving characters getting the spotlight like Captain Marvel and Black Panther. Plus, unlike with the FF...Fox have proven themselves with the X-Men. If they can continue making quality films as fun and as true to the source material as Days of Future Past, more power to them.
Thatonemoor
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Adam Warlock pretty much already exists in the MCU. You can see his cacoon in GotG and Thor 2.
PhoncipleBone
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I never thought of it that way, but yes. This needs to happen.
This comment needs more love.
I'll say this though... one of the best things about Doctor Doom, if Marvel gets him and does him right, is that, because he ALWAYS wears the mask, they can cast him in movies LONG-TERM and easily replace any actor if something goes wrong or they simply get too old for the part. Unlike a Tony Stark or a Thor, Doom's "face" is the mask. That gives Marvel a ton of flexibility with how to handle him for years and years to come.
George Oscar Bluth II
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And needs.
SillyEskimo
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New page so I'll ask again:
Who owns the rights to The Watcher? Anyone know?
Who owns the rights to The Watcher? Anyone know?
Pai Pai Master
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Wrong. They just didn't have the foresight to see superhero movies becoming huge and thought they'd make more cash by selling off the rights
Gipsy Danger
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soundscream
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Don't get all the tarnished talk. Batman, Dare Devil, and to lesser extent X Men (3) all had bad films that left a horrible aftertaste. People have short memories, and if the film is good people will go to see it.
Hell after the prequels I had no confidence in ever seeing a good star wars movie again.
Hell after the prequels I had no confidence in ever seeing a good star wars movie again.
PhoncipleBone
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I think he was tied with FF rights.
Thought so.
PHOENIXZERO
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If this turns out to be true then I called it two months ago, if not... Meh.
I don't think anyone outside of Fox/Marvel knows for sure, but the character is most likely on the Fox side of the contracts considering his history with the F4 and Galactus.
George Oscar Bluth II
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That doesn't make any sense. We already know that Fox didn't have the rights and needed to make a deal. A Fox exec (I think?) even said so.
PadWarrior
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Like the regular Marvel U, there will come a time when MCU will have the Old Man Logan character as a separate figure from Wolverine.
They can cast a new actor for Wolverine and bring back Hugh Jackman as Old Man Logan. Would be pretty darn amazing, in addition to convenient.
Gipsy Danger
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From Den of Geek
Hopefully Fox or Marvel put us out of our misery.
Hopefully Fox or Marvel put us out of our misery.
SillyEskimo
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They could do some cool stuff with him on the cosmic side.
I imagine Fox has all the Imperial Guard too?
Bobby Roberts
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This isn't true at all
Gipsy Danger
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Someone already corrected him.
Is this more accurate?
Backwards Marathon
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One step closer to Annihilation
;_;
And if we get Annihilation then that means Richie Rider will finally make his MCU debut.
x Power Pad Death Stomp x
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If it's true I hope we see Kang as the big bad for Phase 4-6 like Thanos is now
Huh, I guess Collider got their facts wrong.
Colonel Nasty
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Id settle for doom and the cosmic characters
Perhaps they meant that FOX regained the TV rights before any talk of Fantastic Four even entered the picture?
I mean it's not unreasonable to think these discussions were going on long before Fantastic Four bombed at the box-office. And clearly FOX has them now or co-owns them... so could just be a confusion of words.
Also, I do like the difference between this and the Inhumans thread, people were right in questioning the sourcing on that one, but people want this to be true even though I don't know of many (any?) story that was broken by Den of Geek, but I don't know them as rumor-mongering either so
GuitarAtomik
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I'll believe it when I see it. Not getting my hopes up lol. I will say the first thing I thought of when I saw all the X-Men/Mutant shows announced the other day is that this was happening though. The deal makes sense on both ends. Crossing my fingers that it's true.
DaSorcerer7
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Da surfer coming home?
KuwabaraTheMan
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The exciting thing here if this is true is that they'd start publishing the Fantastic Four comic again. I don't really care about anything else.
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