Marvel has been slowly getting all of their old properties back, but the one movie studio that is holding out and keeping them from once again owning all of their comic book characters to be used in their movies is 20th Century Fox. The odds of Marvel getting these rights back in the near future are slim to nil. Here's why.
2016 is going to be a big year for Fox and the X-Men. They actually have three...yes, three X-Men universe movies coming out next year. Well, now maybe two. Gambit seems to be going through a Fantastic Four-style meltdown. First it was rumored that Channing Tatum was leaving the film, and now it's director Rupert Wyatt has left the film. It's nothing nearly as dramatic as people are making it out to be, budget cuts and a bumped up release date now conflict with another project that Wyatt had signed onto, but it's not helping 20th Century Fox look any better. That being said, if Gambit can make it's October release date, 20th Century Fox will be releasing Gambit, Deadpool, and X-Men: Apocalypse next year. Seems to me that Fox is doing their best to compete with Marvel and DC for superhero supremacy at the theaters. With the exception of the Fantastic Four, they're doing a pretty good job at it, too. Here's where Marvel is starting to play dirty...
Even though Marvel doesn't own the movie rights to these characters anymore, they still own the property rights for their comic books, and Marvel has been playing dirty with them for a while...no matter how much they try to convince us they aren't. First, they cancelled the Fantastic Four comic book. They said it was due to dwindling sales. Next, they killed off Wolverine. Their latest storyline may get rid of every mutant they own once and for all.
Marvel has an ongoing series called Extraordinary X-Men and in it there is a new strain, a more pure strain of the Terrigen Mist. Terrigen Mist is a substance that activates an Inhuman's latent abilities upon exposure, and this new strain is lethal to mutants. It not only kills mutants, but if the mutant survives, it renders him/her sterile, so they won't be able to procreate and start up a whole new generation of little bitty mutants.
InHumans is the term that Marvel uses now, since 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the term "mutants." Their comic books have focused primarily on mutants, but now that the cinematic universe has become their bread and butter, they're using their comic book titles to hit the competition where it hurts...with the characters that they don't have distribution rights to. Sony was in their crosshairs for a while, but now that they've come to an agreement with Marvel, there seems to be a renewed push in building up the Spider-Man comic book. The difference here is that Sony's Spider-Man movies sucked, and with the exception of the Fantastic Four movie, 20th Century Fox's Marvel properties seem to be holding strong at the box office and with audiences, It should be noted that even though the Fantastic Four movie bombed completely, there is talk of a sequel in the works. Why, I have no idea. Maybe 20th Century Fox is hoping to move them over to an X-Men titled movie for a bigger box office draw. All of their Marvel properties share a same universe, so Gambit, Deadpool, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men all exsist in the same cinematic universe.
The more money that the X-Men make for 20th Century Fox, expect Marvel and Disney to hit them back even harder each and every time.
Even though Marvel doesn't own the movie rights to these characters anymore, they still own the property rights for their comic books, and Marvel has been playing dirty with them for a while...no matter how much they try to convince us they aren't. First, they cancelled the Fantastic Four comic book. They said it was due to dwindling sales. Next, they killed off Wolverine. Their latest storyline may get rid of every mutant they own once and for all.
Marvel has an ongoing series called Extraordinary X-Men and in it there is a new strain, a more pure strain of the Terrigen Mist. Terrigen Mist is a substance that activates an Inhuman's latent abilities upon exposure, and this new strain is lethal to mutants. It not only kills mutants, but if the mutant survives, it renders him/her sterile, so they won't be able to procreate and start up a whole new generation of little bitty mutants.
InHumans is the term that Marvel uses now, since 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the term "mutants." Their comic books have focused primarily on mutants, but now that the cinematic universe has become their bread and butter, they're using their comic book titles to hit the competition where it hurts...with the characters that they don't have distribution rights to. Sony was in their crosshairs for a while, but now that they've come to an agreement with Marvel, there seems to be a renewed push in building up the Spider-Man comic book. The difference here is that Sony's Spider-Man movies sucked, and with the exception of the Fantastic Four movie, 20th Century Fox's Marvel properties seem to be holding strong at the box office and with audiences, It should be noted that even though the Fantastic Four movie bombed completely, there is talk of a sequel in the works. Why, I have no idea. Maybe 20th Century Fox is hoping to move them over to an X-Men titled movie for a bigger box office draw. All of their Marvel properties share a same universe, so Gambit, Deadpool, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men all exsist in the same cinematic universe.
The more money that the X-Men make for 20th Century Fox, expect Marvel and Disney to hit them back even harder each and every time.
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