The Sony-Marvel agreement will be the testing ground, honestly. It's basically unprecedented, two companies "sharing" an IP like that. Depending on how the Sony-Marvel agreement goes, Fox may be inspired to cut a similar deal.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
FOX still has to ask MARVEL for permission to make television shows out of those properties
(Legion and The Gifted). Hence why MARVEL was able to strike a deal with them to get Ego for Guardians 2.
It's weird because, as stated earlier, MARVEL is slowly softening their stance on not promoting the characters (I think the Four were recently mentioned in the Secret Empire comic, and MARVEL is pushing the X-Men in Marvel Future Fight and (potentially) Avengers Academy).
edited 23rd Jun '17 3:37:09 PM by XMenMutant22
Okay? That doesn't really change what I just said. And they Marvel Ego because of the Deadpool writers wanting to change Negasonic Teenage Warhead, not the TV deal
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Allegedly they'd tried something similar in the past to try and get Galactus, but it didn't work.
edited 23rd Jun '17 4:00:56 PM by comicwriter
Nah, the X-men will stay with Fox for the foreseeable future. There was always little doubt that even if they started to produce diminishing returns Fox would simply reboot the universe (properly this time around). The F4 are another matter though, because Fox has poisoned the brand. And I do think that Marvel would jump at buying those rights back (for a reasonable price) in a minute...but I don't think that they would do a partnership with Fox which would help Fox to keep those rights.
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Then again, First Class pretty much flopped financially.
Only if there's some other meaning of "flop" I'm not aware of
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It made less than the other movies, but that's to be expected since they replaced the entire cast and were coming off the one-two punch of The Last Stand and Wolverine.
353 million on a ~150 million production budget is by no means profitable, since marketing was almost certainly over 50 million.
Children of Dievas - my webcomic about the Northern CrusadesWhich First Class was, since it barely made twice it's production budget back which isn't enough for a big Hollywood tentpole to make a profit.
Children of Dievas - my webcomic about the Northern CrusadesEh. I have no idea what the marketing budget was so unless I'm privy to that info, I'm not calling it a flop.
But even if did fail, the overall point is still correct. People on here have been saying the franchise would finally die and the rights would be surrendered to Marvel with every installment going back to First Class. At a certain point that dream needs to be reevaluated.
edited 24th Jun '17 11:55:55 AM by comicwriter
Highest grossing and most profitable X-Men movie in history is Deadpool, and the only film likely to beat that is Deadpool 2. Thing is, no-one gave that movie a chance to be that successful, especially not Fox, who cut the film's budget while it was nearing completion. Yet everyone seems to be willing the Fantastic Four films not to suck, only to be disappointed en masse once the films come out and they're seen to be trainwrecks.
Perhaps it's time to stop giving a shit about the actual Fantastic Four franchise and accept the fact that the best movie in that series is "The Incredibles", and probably always will be, same as how most fans accept that "Galaxy Quest" is one of the top three Star Trek films? There's lots of other Marvel and D.C. Comics franchises to get obsessed over.

Heck now that they're doing Thanos, Doctor Doom could be the next major Avengers villain.