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News FOX selling out to Disney?

Anwar said:
Because they keep getting the FF wrong, and I'd like to see other X-Men characters get their dues that the movies keep failing at.
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I would rather not have everything need to tie in to the MCU. In my opinion, this gigantic cinematic universe is becoming the centipede with too many feet and Marvel will start tripping over itself.

I prefer the days were some films could just stand alone on their own, and not have to tie in. If they flopped, then the studio could reboot it in a way without so much as an acknowledgement of the old film.

Now, everything, flops and all, must be planned out, charted and accounted, with details showing up in future films. A quick example is the fact that Joss Whedon had to fix problems with Captain America and Thor by resolving the Tesseract and Rainbow Bridge plot points that were left hanging at the end of those films.

Sorry, large, movie spanning franchises do not have to encompass every single superhero under a brand's banner.
N-121973 said:
Then I hope the deal never happens. For me 'Despecialised' Star Wars OT = :barf:. At least for me. After you've tried the special editions you never want to go back.
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Not even a little bit. There's a reason I still have a VHS player. I would absolutely love to have the original versions released on even a basic DVD combo, with SE options as well. It was Lucas' prerogative, since he felt the OT was "Unfinished" in his view, to not release them. I have no problems with all the other editions that he felt needed to be done.

I just wouldn't mind having all them available.
 
Nerys Myk said:
The X-Men have always been odd ducks at Marvel. The whole fear the mutants thing doesn't quite work in a world full of aliens, gods and non-mutant supers.
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The crazy over the top hatred they get in the movies? Maybe not, but if they were incorporated into a bigger Universe it would be analyzed and explored with more nuance and we'd see the X-Men actually ACCOMPLISH their mission with Mutants being more accepted into society.
 
Nerys Myk said:
The X-Men have always been odd ducks at Marvel. The whole fear the mutants thing doesn't quite work in a world full of aliens, gods and non-mutant supers.
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Mutants live next door. Mutants disrupt nice god-fearing communities with their dangerous abilities and unconventional appearances. The majority aren't do-gooder superheroes, most of them are just freaks and we don't need that in our neighborhoods.
 
Venardhi said:
Mutants live next door. Mutants disrupt nice god-fearing communities with their dangerous abilities and unconventional appearances. The majority aren't do-gooder superheroes, most of them are just freaks and we don't need that in our neighborhoods.
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It works better if the idol o' millions isn't a guy who looks like a pile of orange rocks. ;)
 
You'll find plenty of avowed white supremacists rooting for black football players on Sunday. Humans are funny like that.
 
kirk55555 said:
Well, since FOX is just sputtering with the X-Men films
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Riiiiiight. The longest-running continuous superhero film franchise in history (and one of the longest-running continuous film franchises in the past 20 years) is "sputtering". :rolleyes:

The XMCU is doing just fine; it doesn't need the MCU, and, as noted before, I highly doubt that, even if FOX were to sell at least some of its IPs to Disney, the XMCU films would be scrapped.

What's more likely to happen is that Disney would continue to operate 20th Century Fox as a separate film studio, with the XMCU films continuing to be distributed under said studio banner, but with Disney the corporate entity being the ones ultimately financing everything.
 
Meh. Give me FOX’s X2: X-Men United, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool and Logan any day of the week. You can even keep the majority of Disney’s comic (book) comedies.
 
If X-Men was brought into the MCU would it really be a major impact? I thought the X-Men movies, at least until they started doing the prequels was supose to take place in the"Not to distant future" so wouldn't the X-Men movies still not line up with what is going on in the rest of the MCU? At best I think you would see something similar to how Hulk is used and maybe you would get one mutant as a side character from time to time and that is about it.

Also you got to consider that by the time this deal happen you don't even know if the MCU is still going to be the same thing because they will have to reboot it at some point and the X-Men franchise more or less has already had one reboot and so it most likely would just have another.

Jason
 
Ridiculous is the juvenile humor that most (thankfully not all) of Disney’s Marvel movies possess. Disney operates under the impression (a)that all of Marvel’s superheroes should be acting the same and make quips like Spider-Man or Tony Stark and (b)that almost all their movies should follow exactly the same “live-action cartoon” formula aimed at teenagers. Add some layman directors (they tried to change that recently) and the results don’t appeal to me (and I’m a life long Marvel Comics reader).

FOX thankfully hasn’t done that. They employed some real talent behind the cameras (Bryan Singer, Matthew Vaughn, Tim Miller, James Mangold, etc.) and let them develop the films but also the characters. As far as I’m concerned FOX has the most interesting comic book film universe right now. That doesn’t mean that they haven’t made some real duds, but at least they’re trying something different. Again IMHO.
 
Captain of the USS Averof said:
FOX thankfully hasn’t done that. They employed some real talent behind the cameras (Bryan Singer, Matthew Vaughn, Tim Miller, James Mangold, etc.) and let them develop the films but also the characters. As far as I’m concerned FOX has the most interesting comic book film universe right now. That doesn’t mean that they haven’t made some real duds, but at least they’re trying something different. Again IMHO.
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They've just been telling the same story over and over for 17 years.
 
fireproof78 said:
Eh, no, they haven't. Logan, if nothing else is proof of that, as well as Deadpool. Among others.

I don't see any benefit of Disney acquiring these properties.
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Logan was very much the usual "Humans doing something bad to mutants, mutants respond" plot when you get down to it.

If MCU had the X-Men, they have them try to be proactive and making change in the world instead of hiding out at Xavier's Mansion all the time merely reacting to stuff. And maybe start to succeed in their mission to make things better for mutants as opposed to the status quo never changing.

Deadpool was more an independent movie made by Ryan Reynolds than a real FOX film.
 
DigificWriter said:
This is false and will always be false.
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Well I know it's still part of the same universe we saw get started back in 2000 but because of time travel they have basically done a Kelvin Universe style update that basically resets everything and they also follow new actors and new actors who are somethings playing, already established characters.

Jason
 
DigificWriter said:
^ That is not a reboot.
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First Class was intended to be, which is why it violated what Xavier said about his and Magneto's relationship in the first X-Men movie. But they didn't have the stones to let go of the old movies completely do they did that mess with DOFP to try and do a semi-timeline rewrite.
 
DigificWriter said:
Try again.
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Xavier said he and Erik met when they were both around 17 years old in X1.

First Class had them meet in their late 20s/early 30s. And instead of a lifelong relationship that seemed to have ended not too long before X1, here they just know each other for a few months and that's it. Which contradicts what we saw in the X3 80s flashback.
 
Anwar said:
Xavier said he and Erik met when they were both around 17 years old in X1.

First Class had them meet in their late 20s/early 30s. And instead of a lifelong relationship that seemed to have ended not too long before X1, here they just know each other for a few months and that's it. Which contradicts what we saw in the X3 80s flashback.
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There's also the fact that in the first movie Xavier says that he and Magneto built cerebro, and in First Class cerebro was built by Hank.

I give the X-Men movies more of a pass on the continuity issues simply because it was never intended to be this large convoluted franchise that it has become. Of course, becoming a large and convoluted franchise with continuity issues is accurate to the source material...
 
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