Disney Buy 20th Century Fox! Was: Marvel announces Phase 3 slate

[Charliemouse]

33 minutes ago, Bucky said:

People that want a Fantastic 4 film don't understand comics.

I would love a good FF film, so I guess I should just throw away my comic collection then?

[Charliemouse]

6 minutes ago, Azrael said:

Hopefully if Disney get the X-Men we can get a proper Wolverine. As in short, Canadian and masked. Jackman was always too tall which bothered me more than it should. 

Same here, also hopefully Marvel wont fuck over poor Cyclops like Fox have over and over again.

[NickC]

4 hours ago, Harsin said:

This thread is like a litmus test for fanboys.

 

"Hmmmm, Disney is slowly monopolising the entertainment industry, and after a history of dodgy practices and the recent Anaheim stuff and this resulting in the Murdochs holding even more power this really isn’t a good thing.”

 

”We gonna get a CGI Galactus in a film and Wolverime will wear his proper costume, hyuck, hyuck, hyuck!!!!!!!”

 

It's like The Galactic Empire has taken over the Hutts, and as a result Sy Snootles, Oola and the Max Reebo Band are going to jam on the bridge of a Star Destroyer. 

 

Forget about ethics. It's gonna be amazing. 

[NickC]

2 hours ago, Bucky said:

People that want a Fantastic 4 film don't understand comics.

 

[MansizeRooster]

Jesus H Christ, we'll be able to get the Illuminati.

[Tofu]

20 hours ago, Mr Cochese said:

They could actually use the FF and X-Men as a massive second wind for the MCU, instead of having to worry about replacing RDJ, Chris Evans et al when they stop coming back for just one more film.

Exactly 

 

X-men and FF have so many awesome stories, more than Avengers.

 

 

I mean Avengers vs X-men would be the next "Avengers"

[Tofu]

1 hour ago, mansizerooster said:

Jesus H Christ, we'll be able to get the Illuminati.

Annihilation Saga

 

However, dear god God Loves, Man Kills 

[Mr Cochese]

Of course, Avengers Vs X-Men highlighted the key problem with the X-Men and Avengers being in the same fictional world, though, when all Captain America could say was "sorry you're a persecuted minority and we did fuck all to help you lol!"

[Tofu]

1 minute ago, Mr Cochese said:

Of course, Avengers Vs X-Men highlighted the key problem with the X-Men and Avengers being in the same fictional world, though, when all Captain America could say was "sorry you're a persecuted minority and we did fuck all to help you lol!"

 

Yeah the story was dog shit but the idea would be $$$ for filthy casuals.

[RubberJohnny]

You just know they'd make the mutants the result of the New York Alien Invasion though.

 

Actually now I've typed that I realise it would actually give a justification why all these superheroes are loved but these mutant superheroes are hated.

[Mr Cochese]

Maybe after Infinity War they can stop having to tie everything into the stupid infinity stones.

[Mortis]

It'll all tie into something else though, the Kree invasion, secret wars or some big season finale so they can refresh/reboot the out of contract actors as required.

[MansizeRooster]

I've got a feeling that the X-Men will turn up through some Multiverse shenanigans. Doctor Strange will visit some parallel universe where there's no Avengers, but the world is filled with mutants.

[Doomguy]

Think this needs a repost.

 

 

So the hulk can't actually have his own solo movie without universal still. WTF. He can only be in team up films. 

[Mr Cochese]

Why is Namor split with Universal? That's random as fuck.

[Mr Cochese]

I mean, that's about as left field a character to develop as Blade was, so maybe he went cheap. Except then you have a B-film full of underwater scenes that must either be filmed in a tank or using CGI.

[Chindie]

Namor rights bounced around when Blade was being put together, Universal got it in the mid-2000s when everyone seemed to fancy that superheroes might be a thing again after the success of Spiderman for Sony. They didn't do anything with it so presumably the rights went back to Marvel, but Universal have form for being clever with rights deals, hence no Hulk movies - Marvel can make all the Hulk movies they want, but Universal hold distribution rights. Namor might be similar. 

 

And Feige has said a while back that there are various interests in Namor that make it a difficult property to deal with. Which could mean anything. But seemingly there's more than Universal in play, presumably Marvel split the rights when they nearly went under and other companies got bits of certain rights. 

 

I can't see Namor being something they did much with anyway. He's a very niche (if cool in the right circumstances - he's a twat) character, and kinda silly, more so even than many others. Also Marvel's oldest character, but nobody cares.

[NickC]

Skrulls are with Fox? I thought Captain Marvel was taking them on in her debut movie?

[JohnC]

Seems Marvel and Fox co-own the screen rights to them. According to James Gunn. I suppose he must be right when they are appearing in her movie. Though some specific Skrulls (like Super Skrull) are just Fox.

 

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2016/07/07/marvel-studios-and-20th-century-fox-co-own-screen-rights-to-the-skrulls-says-guardians-director-james-gunn

[Mr Cochese]

Skrulls are part of Fantastic Four, so they must have done a deal. Confusingly, Inhumans are not considered part of Fantastic Four.

[Azrael]

Don't they (co-)own the rights to the Skulls (the race) but Fox have the rights to Super Skrull (character). 

[Mr. Gerbik]

1 hour ago, Mr Cochese said:

Skrulls are part of Fantastic Four, so they must have done a deal. Confusingly, Inhumans are not considered part of Fantastic Four.

Nobody wants the Inhumans

[Chindie]

Skrulls were thought to be completely connected with the Fantastic 4 rights because seemingly most of the major 'cosmic' stuff went with those rights (I think they even have stuff like Shiar and Badoon races it's been speculated), but as others have said it now seems that the Fox rights extend to specific characters only.

 

They are definitely appearing in Captain Marvel, at SDCC Marvel showed off some (pretty comic accurate) concept art of Skrulls for the film.

[Alex W.]

On 07/12/2017 at 19:09, JohnC said:

Seems Marvel and Fox co-own the screen rights to them. According to James Gunn. I suppose he must be right when they are appearing in her movie. Though some specific Skrulls (like Super Skrull) are just Fox.

 

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2016/07/07/marvel-studios-and-20th-century-fox-co-own-screen-rights-to-the-skrulls-says-guardians-director-james-gunn

 

There’s a lawyer in a board room somewhere who has to agonise over whether a Skrull is too good to just be a regular Skrull as far as rights are concerned?

[MansizeRooster]

A statement for the Disney/Fox acquisition is expected to be made on Thursday.

 

I can confidently say that I'm more excited for this announcement than I am for Christmas.

[NickC]

It's gone through.

[MansizeRooster]

Linked here

 

Some other company still technically owns the rights to Fantastic 4, but it's expected that Disney will just do a deal a-la The Hulk to get them working as part of the MCU. The announcement outright states that they'll be introduced into the MCU as the X-Men will.

[Tofu]

I can already see what's gonna happen.

 

Kevin Feige shows up on stage after Infinity War is out at some big name comic-con, reveals the words "Phase 4" on the screen. The four slowly shifts into the Fantastic Four logo.

 

Crowd collectively shits itself.

 

[MansizeRooster]

You just know that the recently-vacated Avengers Tower is going to be the new Baxter building.

[Mortis]

The geek on me is overjoyed at the marvel characters all joining the next phase of the MCU, also the fact we might also get an unaltered blu ray of Star Wars OT. 

 I do worry about the power Disney now wields - they effectively control every major movie franchise.