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News FOX selling out to Disney?

Turtletrekker

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Okay, take this one with the whole salt shaker, but the rumor mill has it that FOX is in talks to sell a large portion of its contents and IP to Disney in order to more tightly focus on sports and news*.


https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21s...o-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html

Of course, to me the most relevant portion of this news is the possibility of Disney / Marvel getting back the rights to X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Now, while I don't think that the X-Men would be a good fit in the MCU (and I doubt the X-Men would be included in any deal with Disney anyway), I would love to see the Fantastic Four come home.

*"News"? Ha!
 
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They could just reboot the X-Men franchise if they acquire FOX and fold in the characters that way. I do wonder what the fate of the FOX TV network would be? Does Disney need two broadcast networks?
 
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The FOX television network wouldn't be included, due to antitrust regulations. No one company can own two broadcast networks. (CBS did an end-run around it by co-owning The CW with Warner Bros.) The FX, FXX, and FXM cable channels would be included though.
 
Turtletrekker said:
.....to me the most relevant portion of this news is the possibility of Disney / Marvel getting back the rights to X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Now, while I don't think that the X-Men would be a good fit in the MCU (and I doubt the X-Men would be included in any deal with Disney anyway), I would love to see the Fantastic Four come home.
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They'd only have to pull a Flashpoint type merger and integrate the new(ish) young X-Men cast.

Probably cheaper and easier to reboot though.
 
Makes me wonder what would happen to the FOX television network's programming though, since it would no longer have 21st Century Fox behind it, unless they stipulate some contractual obligation with Disney.
 
Three Studios for the Social Media-kings in the clouds,
Seven for the Streaming Lords in their towers of stone,
Nine for the Old Media doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his round - eared throne,
In the Land of the Mouse where the Tourists lie.
One Company to rule them all, One Company to find them,
One Company to own them all ....and in the darkness bind them.
 
This is not something that is currently happening (see CNBC's article), but even if it did end up happening at some point, I sincerely doubt that the currently successful X-Men film series would be scrapped "just because".
 
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There was one already. It was called The Incredibles.
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I'm not disagreeing with that, either. ;):lol: I always use The Incredibles as proof that the FF could be done right. When The Incredibles 2 was announced, my first thought was, "Finally! A Fantastic Four movie to look forward to!" :lol::techman:
 
I haven't seen any mention of Fox's distribution rights to the Star Wars movies as part of this. Would that be included? I understand that at some point Fox's rights expire to all the films but the original, so those will go to Disney at some point anyway, but I'm sure they would want total control of all six.
 
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This is not something that is currently happening (see CNBC's article), but even if it did end up happening at some point, I sincerely doubt that the currently successful X-Men film series would be scrapped "just because".
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I said as much about The X-Men in my OP, and am glad that you emphasized "currently" in your post. Recall that the Marvel/Sony talks had stalled/were dead until the Sony e-mail leak made the information public, and things swiftly changed. Both Disney and FOX stocks surged upon the news. Perhaps that and the sway of public reaction may change things as it did with Marvel and Sony.

Probably not, but who knows? And speculation on it is fun.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing Marvel Studios get the Fantastic Four back, but I like the X-Men franchise the way it is and don't have any desire for a reboot. Heck, it's the most successful shared-universe superhero movie franchise that isn't the MCU, so replacing it with something that was part of the MCU would homogenize the industry too much.
 
Given that stocks rose based on initial reporting that wasn't entirely accurate, I'm not sure that fact in itself means much.

We'll see, though.
 
In one way Disney already owns a part of FOX. Back in the early-2000’s Disney bought FOX Kids and got a ton of shows, including the animated Marvel shows.

But it’ll be interesting to see, if it does go through, if Disney will keep the 1960’s Batman series, or if they will turn around and offer it to Warner Brothers. Or maybe Warner’s might come after it as soon as a deal has been announced.
 
If this did theoretically happen, it would be interesting to see what Disney/Marvel would do with the X-Men. I'd rather not see it integrated into the MCU, it would just be weird to suddenly dump thousands of never before mentioned mutants into the universe. I would rather just see them continue on the series as it is. Now the FF on the other, them I would love to see integrated into the MCU.
Sthing nobody has mentioned yet is Avatar, I would really be interested in seeing what they would do with that franchise.
I just realized it would also give Disney the Alien and Predator franchises.
 
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