User blog comment:Solmonster, the Daily Phantom/20 Villains which are candidates for the MCU's next big bad/@comment-9565497-20180405191130/@comment-16461120-20180405193034

Except they didn't. Disney simply agreed on a potential price with Fox, which requires an FTC antitrust review before any further considerations of acquisition can proceed.

It's like how AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner back in 2016, but in the mean time the Department of Justice has now sued to block the merger, leaving WB and DC presently in legal limbo some eighteen months later.