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All of Marvel with the exception of Spiderman would be under Disney.
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Wasn't most of Marvel already? Legit question
20th Century Fox owns the Mutant portion of the Marvel portfolio, including X-Men, Fantastic 4, and Deadpool.
Sony owns Spiderman and associate characters in that universe, most notably Venom and Carnage.
Disney technically owns them, but 20th Century Fox and Sony own their film and television rights.
I'm kinda skeptical if this is a worthwhile deal if I'm Disney. I've heard nothing about an upcoming X-Men reboot, and I'm not sure there's even much momentum going towards one. Whether that's malfeasance or lack of capital on Fox's part I don't know. No one on this planet wants to reboot Fantastic Four. But it looks to me like Disney is willing to buy a major production company just to get a new Wolverine to join the Avengers.
That's not totally outside the realm of possibility for Disney, but it just seems a little bit crazy.
I'm kinda skeptical if this is a worthwhile deal if I'm Disney. I've heard nothing about an upcoming X-Men reboot, and I'm not sure there's even much momentum going towards one. Whether that's malfeasance or lack of capital on Fox's part I don't know. No one on this planet wants to reboot Fantastic Four. But it looks to me like Disney is willing to buy a major production company just to get a new Wolverine to join the Avengers.
That's not totally outside the realm of possibility for Disney, but it just seems a little bit crazy.
Disney has no roadmap for Marvel right now once Phase 3 is done. Getting Fantastic 4 would be massive in setting up Dr. Doom as the villain for the next slate post-Thanos. Plus, a rebooted X-Men universe could prove massively popular and profitable done right.
Disney would also get the full rights to the Episode 1-6 of Star Wars, as well as the rights to Avatar franchise and Alien franchise.
An 4K release of the "original" trilogy before Lucas ham fisted it with stupid changes would be amazing.
An 4K release of the "original" trilogy before Lucas ham fisted it with stupid changes would be amazing.
Remember, FOX is more than just X-Men movies. This is Disney building critical mass for their "go it alone" movie/series platform. It also pulls yet more away from Netflix if they manage to acquire 20th Century Fox.
It would be especially amazing if Disney could somehow wipe Episodes 1-3 off the map. After watching The Force Awakens and Rogue One, I wonder if Lucas ever thinks about badly he screwed those up. Probably not, but he should.