Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-3048593-20180216024304

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: KalKent wrote: Since most of us aren't looking forward to Sony's 'Venom' movie, take pleasure in knowing it could've been a lot worse. They've could've bought all of the Marvel movie rights back in 1998.

Not gonna lie, the MCU is amazing, but I kinda want to see that timeline (someone call any and all Reed Richards that exist in Earth-1218, please) just to see how it'd work with every single character under one roof without a single restriction. It'd probably just be constant reboots of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Fantastic Four and X-Men, though.

At least now with the MCU "scraping the bottom of the barrel" we have all the Defenders' series, the Runaways, the Guardians, the Avengers, and the MCU-exclusive Agents of SHIELD. So I'm thankful. Though I'm kinda scared for when we do get the FOX characters back. I don't need the same five X-Men in every single movie. The article I linked did mention how even if Sony bought Spider-Man along with the Marvel universe for their movies, Fox would've still owned the X-Men and FF rights. So if it had happened, I could see fans of the comics seeing it as "pick your poison".

James Gunn admitted that if Marvel started out with the MCU already owning Spider-Man and the X-Men, then they wouldn't probably have done anything relating to Guardians (maybe way later). But if they start doing their own X-Men movies, with how they've worked out what works, I hope they won't do the same thing as Fox did (same characters each movie with a few new introductions, and Magneto as the main villain).

And with "scraping the barrel", I think they've earned that at this point, since I don't see it as "they're running out of ideas", but rather seeing the potential of expanding it to characters and teams not considered before.