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

[jjc2009]

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.

 

[wildturkey]

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

 

[UVA_Guy81]

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.

 

[Battlelyon]

Time for a *uck#*& PG Deadpool movie

 

[BusSport]

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.

I hope the deal falls through.

The deal fell through, apparently.

Disney Explored Buying Fox Assets; Talks Now Dead

 

[jjc2009]

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.

 

[RobBase]

Good. Fuck Disney.

 

[Godstree]

Good. Fuck Disney.

Except Pixar, disney seems to blow.

 

[Niner Outlaw]

Except Pixar, disney seems to blow.

Their ownership of the Star Wars franchise has a lot of promise. Rogue One turned out pretty good.

 

[Godstree]

Their ownership of the Star Wars franchise has a lot of promise. Rogue One turned out pretty good.

Yes it did. Won't discount that .

 

[jeffro151]

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

 

[calsnowskier]

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...

 

[PatsFan2003]

Their ownership of the Star Wars franchise has a lot of promise. Rogue One turned out pretty good.

Better than the last 3 Lucas film SW's

 

[Clayton]

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

 

[BusSport]

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

More like biggest NON-news, since the deal fell through.

 

[BusSport]

Remember when Disney unsuccessfully tried to buy Fox a couple weeks ago?

Well, in the wake of the failure of that deal, Comcast, the parent company of Universal Pictures, and Verizon have stepped in to now make their attempt to buy Fox.

 

[Ojb81]

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

 

[Innermind]

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.

 

[calsnowskier]

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.

 

[Taddy Mason]

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.

I know it's not necessarily the same arena, but I don't think the FCC gives a fuck at this point.

FCC just repealed decades-old rules blocking broadcast media mergers - The Boston Globe