Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20171207052337

I'd imagine New Mutants, Deadpool 2, and (unfortunately) Dark Phoenix would still be released under the 20th Century Fox name, similar to how Iron Man 2, Thor, and The First Avenger were still released under the Paramount name, and how The Avengers and Iron Man 3 still used Paramount in promotion.

I may have said this earlier, but in my ideal situation, they do a hard reboot (I'm usually not a fan of these - Star Wars anyone? - but given the Multiverse this one can be forgiven). They then have all mutant heroes exist in a new reality. 20th Century Fox will still produce the movies, but they'll be done under an entirely new creative team, and make a shared universe more akin to the MCU, albeit in a different universe and of course featuring the X-Men instead of the Avengers, before ultimately creating Avengers vs. X-Men. :)

The reason why I feel it's essential to have Fox continue to produce the movies is in order to allow for more creative freedom. You'd never call a show like Revenge a Disney property, but it is, and Disney is able to disguise that by putting it under the ABC name - hell, if I were to go onto to the street and ask someone "Hey, did you know Chris Berman works for Disney?" or "Hey, did you know No Country for Old Men used to be a Disney movie?", I guarantee people will think I'm insane. In other words, Disney is able to get away with a lot of things, R-rated or otherwise, via its various divisions, and the same can easily apply here. Besides, I'll be EXTREMELY pissed if Disney goes stupid and decides to shut down / sell the rights to Fox's mature content. Thankfully, this probably won't happen since they fired Rich Ross, but now that both Alan Horn AND Bob Iger are leaving Disney in the near future, it's definitely worth getting antsy about.

As for the Fantastic Four, I do think that specific property can and should be used in the MCU from a story standpoint, unlike mutants. I'm not sure how the rights being non-transferable would affect that though. If Fox has no choice, then they can maybe introduce these characters in the new universe. From a story standpoint, a cool thing to do would be to contrast the F4 as mutates with the X-Men as mutants, showing how since the F4 developed their powers as well-known adults rather than when they are born, they are treated with zero hostility, because the public feels the former can handle their powers responsibly, especially compared to the latter.