Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2054358-20150809032033/@comment-26095292-20151115213327

Zippertrain85 wrote:

SuperbRice wrote: I know this was rumoured a while ago and although the deal is already finalised (I believe), I still reckon Marvel should of attempted to alter the deal so 20th Century Fox can get their X-Men TV shows, and with it Marvel gets the rights or semi-rights (like the same deal with Sony and Spider-Man) to the Fantastic Four.

Besides the 2015 movie was considered a flop, I understand their attempt to revive it in the upcoming sequel to see if it can make money like X-Men (which it can in the right hands), but still in my opinion there was only one good scene in that movie, where Doom was walking through the hallways, untouched, slaughtering everyone around him.

It being Marvel I assume if this did happen they would strategically plan it, so Reed Richards is mentioned in Avengers III: Infinty War and then the Fantastic Four movie is realeased in 2020 or 2021.

But to relate back to the thread, X-Men right now just wouldn't 'fit in' as such. Maybe during Phase 6 or something like that down the track, right now I'm fine with 20th Century Fox having their rights, if anything Marvel should fix up the deals with Hulk and Namor. Surprised about Hulk & Namor. Why does Universal still have control over them after all these years? Especially considering how if Fox doesn't do anything with FF or X-Men a second after the deadline it completely goes to Marvel, yet Universal does nothing with Hulk for years, and nothing with Namor completely and they still keep distribution, go figure. xD Hulk rights are with Marvel those are timed character rights are timed, but distribution rights can go on forever they have to be bought by disney.

Namor is sticky situation Marvel owns the character but because of other contracts else where they can't use him just yet.