Thread:SwagMasterDbl/@comment-29362220-20171207164550/@comment-2112031-20171214181502

BEJT wrote:

SwagMasterDbl wrote: So Marvel is officially getting the X-Men and Fanastic Four rights back. What do you think we should do with the timeline if they announce that the MCU and the X-Men films shared continuity all along with the multiverse? I'm sure they won't do that, and I personally hope they don't. Keep non-Marvel Studios films outside of the MCU - plus that franchise is a lot less consistent in quality, and its timeline... phwoah... But yeah, we'll adapt formats as more different types of storytelling unravel.

I'm excited for the prospects of this deal, but I hope it's not rushed. I honestly don't mind if they spend like the next 5 years just playing out the rest of the X-Men universe before things start to close down and gradually restart in the MCU. Ideally, for me, they'd do The New Mutants, Deadpool 2, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, their Gambit film, their X-23 film, Deadpool 3 and/or X-Force, and finish with one last X-Men film - with their decade-jumping, the next one after Dark Phoenix would take us back to the early 2000s, matching up with the original film and coming full circle in a really nice way. Say that would all be done by 2020/2021, you could start integrating the rebooted characters in from the second half of Phase Four (or whatever they call the next stage). No rush. Kevin Feige once remarked that, due to the rights to characters usually reverting back to Marvel after a different studio has basically run them into the ground, Marvel typically prefers to sit on a property for a couple years in order to properly integrate them into the MCU, as well as to avoid association with the previous incarnation(s) of those characters.

Here's what Feige said regarding Daredevil and Punisher during an interview on October 20, 2013:

''We're trying to figure out what to do with Daredevil now. Punisher could show up at one point. You know, once we get characters back into the Marvel fold we don’t want to do something right away, we want to do the smart thing at the smart time.''

Basically, the X-Men and Fantastic Four are unlikely to appear any time soon.

I suppose Deadpool, The New Mutants and Legion might be the easiest ones to integrate at this point, since none of them are all that closely connected to the main X-Men films.