Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20171202235709

KalKent wrote: While we are still riding the hype train of so far great MCU material, Disney has re-engaged buying Fox assets, pursuing a deal by the end of the year (archived so as to bypass Wall Street Journal's paywall). Even if this doesn't go through, it might incentivise others to buy them, since like Annabellerice mentioned, the Marvel rights are apparently non-transferable.

By "non-transferable", do you mean Marvel Studios can't buy the rights back or that no one can buy character rights from Marvel Studios?

As for the thing itself, as someone who studies media flow, I don't think it would be a good idea for Disney to buy all of Fox (I smell Trump honestly), as such a move would be heavily anti-competitive and might not be legal. However, they could maybe buy some of them. Just as suggestions, they could maybe buy Blue Sky Studios (Disney might as well own Peanuts anyways), the rights to Avatar (there's already the Pandora attraction and James Cameron needs SOME incentive to speed up), the rights to the rest of Star Wars, Fox Searchlight (since their own Touchstone hasn't done much since Lincoln, and they could use Oscar-caliber films), FX (to get Legion back without interfering in the oh-so-precious-news), National Geographic (because Fox hates the environment too much, and Disney loves it too much), some of their sports channels such as SPEED (also, they should get the rest of ESPN while they're at it, even though it belongs to Hearst Corp - hell, maybe just buy Hearst Corp), Fox Music (they need SOME influence in the music industry), and any non-news publications (Fox has said they want to be all news, so even if I wanted them to be purchased and influenced it wouldn't happen). Also, on an unrelated note, reform LucasArts - you need gaming influence after Disney Interactive fell apart, and EA sure isn't treating Star Wars well...