Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4548390-20170306230733/@comment-1398253-20171110132047

KalKent wrote: Apparently the talks of Disney buying Fox assets wasn't focusing on Marvel rights, but rather shows like 'Futurama' for their own streaming service. Although if the talks had gone through, I have no doubt that Disney would've asked that the Marvel rights would be included as well, since said assets were said to be "major ones from Fox" in general.

Though I have heard that supposedly "antitrust laws" would've prevented Disney getting the X-Men rights from Fox to Marvel (for the sake of competition), but I don't know if that would've applied to those movie rights since it's based on characters Marvel owns, and that they sold to Fox when they were in financial troubles in the past (I'm not an expert in copyright and legal stuff so I can't say for sure). The X-Men rights wouldn't be an issue. It's more to do with the size of 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Pictures as a whole. Also, the FOX network and affiliates, Fox News, and Fox Sports would've definitely been excluded because Disney own ABC and ESPN.