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Well, That's One Way for Marvel to Get X-Men Back (Disney Acquisition of Fox)

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I read an article that Fox is looking to sell almost all its assets, except for its news channels to Disney.

This presumably would give Disney control of the X-Men and Fantastic Four again.

Look for them to start appearing in the MCU soon.
 

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They'd also get the distribution rights to Star Wars: A New Hope which Fox still owns despite Disney having everything else.

As much as I'd love to see X-Men and FF done right (Fox has done terrible with them), I hope the deal falls through. Disney would all but have a monopoly on entertainment. Competing factions is healthy and needs to be preserved
 

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21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney: Sources

They'd also get the distribution rights to Star Wars: A New Hope which Fox still owns despite Disney having everything else.

As much as I'd love to see X-Men and FF done right (Fox has done terrible with them), I hope the deal falls through. Disney would all but have a monopoly on entertainment. Competing factions is healthy and needs to be preserved
I agree 100% with that. I'd like to see them keep the X-Men universe but I don't think anyone would mind if they sold off the rights to the FF since their track record with that franchise hasn't exactly been stellar.
 
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Time for a *uck#*& PG Deadpool movie
 

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They'd also get the distribution rights to Star Wars: A New Hope which Fox still owns despite Disney having everything else.

As much as I'd love to see X-Men and FF done right (Fox has done terrible with them), I hope the deal falls through. Disney would all but have a monopoly on entertainment. Competing factions is healthy and needs to be preserved
It's moot now but I had no idea the Lucasfilm deal did not include A New Hope.
 

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Good. Fuck Disney.
 

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Really past the point for Disney to acquire Xmen and FF since Infinity War 1 is close to wrapping up filming.
 

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Really past the point for Disney to acquire Xmen and FF since Infinity War 1 is close to wrapping up filming.
Not really. They could just add the whole mutant thing to Phase 4 or Phase 5.

If this were to happen, I could see them rebooting the X-Men movies and retconning the rest of the universe to refer to the rebooted universe instead of the Stewart/McAvoy universe.

That said, I prefer the mutants outside the MCU. The MCU at least started in a relatively realistic universe that is incompatible with the X-gene. But with the inclusion of Inhumans and Dr Strange, that argument doesn’t really hold water anymore...
 

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Bigger video game news than movie news imo. MCU is already a bit bloated in movies but games like Marvel 's Capcom have suffered.
 

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i didn't realize that fox was actually for sale. hope it doesn't happen.
 

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I don't like this as Comcast already owns NBC Universal, and IMO.... FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS should remain as competitors under different ownership.
 

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I don't like this as Comcast already owns NBC Universal, and IMO.... FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS should remain as competitors under different ownership.
A buy out this big would require fcc approval (I think). But with the changing nature of TV, I am not sure canibalism is something that needs to be avoided.
 

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