User blog comment:Spartian300/future marvel films./@comment-5699975-20121209053011/@comment-1895174-20121209064833

It's because of the Fantastic Four license. Even though the original Fantastic Four film series was killed before they could do a film about the Skrulls (if they even wanted to), they still have the rights to put them on screen. If you can remember back to early August, Marvel wanted a whole number of characters, namely Fantastic Four villains, back from Fox in exchange for more time to work on a Daredevil reboot, to which Fox replied with a giant "go **** yourself". Although it was mostly reported that the villains Disney wanted back were Galactus and the Silver Surfer, it might have included the Skrulls as well.

And the right to include a character in film is different than the right to put on on television. This situation is familiar to anyone who's a fan of The Spectacular Spider-Man.