User blog comment:Rockman1216/The Fox Marvel dilemma/@comment-993964-20160105234835/@comment-993964-20160106163527

To quote Marvel senior vp of publishing Tom Brevoort telling a fan: "If you had two things, and on one you earned 100% of the revenues from the efforts that you put into making it, and the other you earned a much smaller percentage for the same amount of time and effort, you'd be more likely to concentrate more heavily on the first, wouldn't you?"

The contingency plan is to let forget about the x-men and use the inhumans who have their own film coming in 2019. MCU has a lot of movies it can do before it runs out of ideas to make movies for and would want to collaborate with the x-men who at this point, is like another "justice league" in competition with their avengers. As much as comic fans want to see the x-men come back to the marvel fold, hollywood is run by money and now that feige has a disney boss paying for his movies he's not going to promote the adversarial rival to disney.