User blog comment:Rockman1216/The Fox Marvel dilemma/@comment-993964-20160105234835/@comment-26095292-20160106105811

" So Disney/Marvel does all the work while Fox gets a free handout by cashing in on the distribution and ticket sales of the movie"

Who says it's a free handout even when a movie isn't in the MCU Marvel Entertainment still gets some of the cash, for the Fantastic Four it's great because Marvel Studios doesn't have to finance it, Fox does, so if anything it's just Fox working for Disney at this point in the MCU.

" The Sony deal was feasible because Spiderman is one of Marvel's most popular franchises, even if they don't cash in from distribution and selling tickets from stand alone movies, Marvel still profits from selling merchandise like toys, comics, and t-shirts, as well as the appeal of having spidey in avengers movies"

So are the X-MEN while not exactly to the same calibur as Spider-Man definitely to a calibur that gives Marvel alot of popularity and money, I should also add that Marvel doesn't need to finance an Avengers/X-Men crossover movie that's Fox's job, Marvel just has creative say on who to cast, what story to use, and who directs the movie(which will either be Bryan Singer(hope not), or Matthew Vaugh(the better choice)), it's Fox's job to finance which is a big one, distrubute which is another big one both of which Marvel doesn't have to worry about, and they still get money in the end, while not as much as they would if they were financing it and distrubting it, still more than nothing, and the risk factor would be so low, it wouldn't even matter on both a Fantastic Four MCU reboot, and an X-MEN MCU reboot. because Marvel profits either way, and they profit all the more with getting to use their popular characters in their Cinematic Universe.

" F4 is nowhere as popular as Spidey. It's best financially for Marvel to wait it out, if there is a contract expiration, or some sort of sweetened deal like they give back the rights to f4 if they do some avengers/x-men crossover movie. Though I would dread when the mcu canonized the constant retconning and not very good Fox's X-men universe."

Not really because waiting it out means they would probably sit on the property for years to come, and not ever make a movie out of them for a very long time, and when they do make a movie out of them, while I would say is a guarnteed success, it does certainly have that risk factor one that Marvel will definitely would want to avoid and still get the right to use certain villians that the Fantastic Four holds in the MCU, while being able to finance other Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, and have Fox finance the other MCU  projects because if they take a hit while unlikely, Marvel Studios makes a profit because they spent 0 dollars on making the film itself, but because of the licensing deal Marvel gets a percentage of the earnings. and as for the whole canonizing the Fox Marvel move univese, yeah it's not happening while they may have most of the X-MEN Apocalypse cast, and the older X-MEN movie cast reprise their roles as their characters from the previous movies, most of them it makes no sense to recast, for example makes no sense to recast Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool because their is no reason Deadpool needs to be played by a younger actor nor does he need to take off his mask revealing the actor because Deadpool rarely takes off his mask or costume, and recasting Ryan would actually be a big waste of time on Marvel and Fox's part, unlike Spider-Man who needed to be cast young because that is Peter Parker they were going for where as Deadpool doesn't have this problem, and most of the X-MEN Apocalypse cast can be kept around for more than 10 movies in the MCU X-MEN Franchise, however Fox is going to recast everybody in FANT4STIC that movie has so much bad buzz it would be suicidal to bring that cast back, and everyone believes they were miscast.

The stories of the Bryan Singer X-MEN movies will be non-canon to the MCU, but the MCU X-MEN will look like Young X-MEN from X-MEN Apocalypse, they will have completely different costumes to aliviate the confusion from audiences that will be their regardless, they will probably get James McAvoy to play Xavier, and Michael Fassbender to play Magneto but Mystique, Quicksilver, Magneto, maybe Storm gets recast.