Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20151029033607/@comment-3048593-20170322014044

SunGodKizaru wrote:

For all the blame people put in Ike Pearlmutter, it seems the stuff he is in charge is still playing ball with Fox while the Disney controlled stuff isn't(cartoons, games, movies), it definitely seems they are building a relationship on the TV side(which is part of Marvel not Marvel studios). On the movies side I see people at Fox or at least the ones in charge of the movies saying they would like to work together, but then we see Kevin Feige saying it won't happen because they have enough characters to make new movies.

We can't criticize Fox for using the rights they bought, Fox got those rights before Disney owned Marvel, so we can't act like Fox should just give them the rights back when the X-men have been profitable(and like I said I haven't enjoyed the X-movies as much as the MCU ones). The Fantastic Four situation was ridiculous and it seems like that made Marvel and Fox relationship worse at the time(banning X-men and FF from games, cartoons, among other things), I believe it was said the contracts have a 10year clause, so we would have to wait 10 years since the last Fantastic Four movie for the rights to revert.

I fully admit that I'm being selfish, childish, and a fanboy when it comes to that. I simply would prefer all of Marvel's properties to be under one umbrella, and I would also love to see how they would be able to handle the X-Men and all of its characters.

But I know that Fox isn't going to let go of it anytime soon, as long as they are making money out of it. When Marvel was in the crapper financial wise and had to sell off film & TV rights for their characters, Fox essentially got the rights to the X-Men for basically nothing, so of course they aren't going to let go of a property that is essentially printing them free money. Especially now with how financially successful Deadpool was as an R-rated film with a budget of only $58 million, which became the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, and them planning on making a franchise out of that.