Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-3048593-20171203000613

I don't think it's all of Fox, just assets from movie and TV. Since it's Disney, their main focus will probably be Marvel rights, original cuts of the Star Wars trilogy, and stocks in Hulu.

By non-transferable, like it says on the comment I linked, it essentially means that the X-Men and Fantastic Four rights can only be in two places. Remaining with Fox, or going back to Marvel. If Comcast bought up the movie and TV assets, then those rights wouldn't be included, and automatically revert back to Marvel. So no matter who ends up buying the assets, it's a win for Marvel fans (though not so sure about Star Wars fans, since I don't know if the original cuts are non-transferable or not).

I do wonder if this is a recent rule, or if it's been like this all of the time. Because when one reads about past history of planned movies using Marvel rights, when they were being shopped around. there were cases of studios getting them "just in case" they were eventually going to make a movie. If they didn't make one or they took too long making another one, then it probably went back to Marvel, who would almost immediately afterwards sell it to a different studio.