Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2054358-20150809032033/@comment-2054358-20150810030402

Yeah, with the new movie already failing, Fox will have to give up the Fantastic Four. I could see it as a trade: Fantastic Four film rights for X-Men TV rights. In fact, I wonder if it was Fox's plan all along: To make an even worse Fantastic Four movie to trade the rights for an X-Men series. And if that plan worked well and Fox get's its series to take place in the X-Men film universe instead of the MCU, then we'll won't be seeing X-Men in the MCU. But there is one alternative I can think of: Maybe Marvel and Fox could make a bet that Marvel Studios would make a critically successful Fantastic Four movie in July 2017, then Fox would surrender all it's X-Men and Marvel-related rights. But then, we'll still have to wait two years before Mutants are introduced in the MCU if the bet happened.

But then again, maybe Marvel would want more then the Fantastic Four rights. Maybe they would want to have Marvel producers working with the Fox producers and setting the series in the MCU. Fox would want Marvel to write comics based on the X-Men films, put Wolverine on all of Marvel's merchandise, have Fox review the Earth-616 X-Men comics, and have Marvel write licensed comics like The Simpsons, James Cameron Avatar, Night at the Museum, and other properties that Fox owns that they want to promote. Hmm... I wonder if that could be a good deal?