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News FOX selling out to Disney?

Does this mean that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch will be reinstated as Magneto's kids in the comics?

Will we be getting a Fantastic Four movie or will that Future Foundation movie with Franklin and Valeria take presedence?



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These hitters are finally able to be in the MCU.
 
HOLY SHIT! SO this happened.

The evil Empire has won.

WB/DC is pissing their pants right now. The DCEU is on its last legs now that Disney controls the X-men and F4.

The DCEU is going get fired up and will respond to this news by actually putting out good movies now (WW was an obvious fluke).
 
This X-men quote needed to be posted:
It’s a shame what Fox has done with the X-Men franchise (5 good movies, but also 5 bad movies, some really bad, And even in the good movies, just Wolverine in the front, extremely poorly represented female characters, horrible chronology, Magneto almost as the only villaiin), the Fantastic Four (three really bad movies), Daredevil and Elektra.

Gambit? Multiple Men? Pff..

The real problems here are the number of feature films that will be made, Fox Searchlight and the amount of power with just one studio.

Superhero Genre will be fine.
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The way that press release is worded doesn't leave me with much confidence that we'll get a satisfactory send-off for the longest-running continuous superhero film franchise ever (X-Men), which is extremely frustrating and depressing.
 
The X-Men had their send off
. Literally every X-Men on Earth travels to new York (even characters who don't generally hang out at the Xavier institute) and they all die except Wolverine for a bullshit reason. Oh, and magic food makes mutants sterile, until the Mexican knockoff of X-23 shows up and something something mutants might live again some day but all the actual X-Men characters are long dead.
That shit got critical acclaim, so its really just the crap ending the Fox X-Men universe deserves at this point. Everyone is dead in the end and nothing matters. On with the Disney X-Men (and hopefully deadpool can be worked in, since he barely has connections to the main X-Men films, even having an alternate version of Colossus that obviously isn't in continuity with the main X-Men universe anyway).
 
DigificWriter said:
The way that press release is worded doesn't leave me with much confidence that we'll get a satisfactory send-off for the longest-running continuous superhero film franchise ever (X-Men), which is extremely frustrating and depressing.
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The Chris Reeve Superman, Burtonverse Batman, and Raimi Spider-man movies never got proper sendoffs either. Their last movies were horrible. It is what it is.
 
DigificWriter said:
The way that press release is worded doesn't leave me with much confidence that we'll get a satisfactory send-off for the longest-running continuous superhero film franchise ever (X-Men), which is extremely frustrating and depressing.
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Maybe they'll rewrite the ending to Dark Phoenix to be more "final".
 
Yes, we know where the timeline ends for the XMCU, but that's not what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is Josh Boone, the filmmakers behind Deadpool, and possibly Simon Kinberg just having their creativity cut off at the knees by Marvel Studios coming in and steamrolling on into a new future that sees the X-Men debuting in the MCU in the next two to three years.

In television terms, the equivalent would be Time Warner buying CBS and cancelling The Big Bang Theory at the height of its popularity for no other reason than that the head of Time Warner doesn't like the show and wants to air something else.
 
DigificWriter said:
Yes, we know where the timeline ends for the XMCU, but that's not what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is Josh Boone, the filmmakers behind Deadpool, and possibly Simon Kinberg just having their creativity cut off at the knees by Marvel Studios coming in and steamrolling on into a new future that sees the X-Men debuting in the MCU in the next two to three years.

In television terms, the equivalent would be Time Warner buying CBS and cancelling The Big Bang Theory at the height of its popularity for no other reason than that the head of Time Warner doesn't like the show and wants to air something else.
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But none of that matters, because now Deadpool can pee on Iron Man or whatever.
 
DigificWriter said:
Yes, we know where the timeline ends for the XMCU, but that's not what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is Josh Boone, the filmmakers behind Deadpool, and possibly Simon Kinberg just having their creativity cut off at the knees by Marvel Studios coming in and steamrolling on into a new future that sees the X-Men debuting in the MCU in the next two to three years.
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Simon Kinberg is a fairly uncreative hack. As a superhero movie writerwriter, the man wrote one good movie, one boring as fuck waste of time and the shit that is Fant4stic. Dark Phoenix is almost certainly going to be more of the same boring slog that Apocalypse is. Simon Kinberg never getting to touch the X-Men again makes me happier then the possibility of the Avengers meeting the X-Men.

As for Josh Boone, he's ruining an entire part of the X-Men universe with his shit teen horror film. At least Kinsberg hlped give us Days of Future Past. Boone is just the random cheap director that got hired to fuck over the New Mutants. I'm pretty sure FOX's thoughts while hiring him were "oh he made a shit tween movie, so he has a bit of a name but will be cheap to hire to royally fuck over...I mean, direct a "New Mutants" movie".

With Deadpool, if he has to be sacrificed to get good X-Men movies then I'm willing to take that loss. I really enjoy Deadpool, but against the whole X-Men franchise he doesn't win.
 
^ You're clearly one of those people who doesn't care if a franchise gets to end with a finished narrative so long as you get what you personally want, so in the words of Buzz Lighyear, "you are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity".
 
kirk55555 said:
Simon Kinberg is a fairly uncreative hack. As a superhero movie writerwriter, the man wrote one good movie, one boring as fuck waste of time and the shit that is Fant4stic. Dark Phoenix is almost certainly going to be more of the same boring slog that Apocalypse is. Simon Kinberg never getting to touch the X-Men again makes me happier then the possibility of the Avengers meeting the X-Men.

As for Josh Boone, he's ruining an entire part of the X-Men universe with his shit teen horror film. At least Kinsberg hlped give us Days of Future Past. Boone is just the random cheap director that got hired to fuck over the New Mutants. I'm pretty sure FOX's thoughts while hiring him were "oh he made a shit tween movie, so he has a bit of a name but will be cheap to hire to royally fuck over...I mean, direct a "New Mutants" movie".

With Deadpool, if he has to be sacrificed to get good X-Men movies then I'm willing to take that loss. I really enjoy Deadpool, but against the whole X-Men franchise he doesn't win.
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Yes, completely ignore all of the wide-reaching ramifications this has for the entertainment industry and focus solely upon a few more action figures being able to get smashed together on screen for a few hours.
 
The "silver lining" in this, I guess, is that it looks like I'll at least have the DCEU and Sony's Spiderverse to satisfy my superhero film needs going forward.
 
So if I understand this correctly, Disney buys the Fox Television Division and all the shows produced by it (36 currently in production), and the 20th Century Fox Studio and movies. But they aren't buying the actual broadcast network or the 20th Century Fox Studio Lot/Soundstages.
 
From CNN Money

Disney gets:


• 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight movie and television studios

• Majority control (60%) of Hulu




• Several big movie franchises, including X-Men, Avatar and Deadpool

• Major TV franchises, including The Simpsons, This Is Us and Modern Family

• International media businesses, including 350 channels in 170 countries, Star India and 39% of the European pay-TV operator Sky

• FX and National Geographic Partners

• Fox's regional sports networks, including YES

• $13.7 billion of Fox's debt

• An estimated $2 billion in cost savings

• Bob Iger's contract extended through 2021


Fox gets:


• 25% of Disney shares

• $8.5 billion cash dividend from the spun-off company


Fox's spinoff company keeps:


• Fox broadcasting

• Fox News

• Fox Business News

• FS1 & FS2 sports networks

• Big Ten Network
 
Edit: Ninja'd

I just realized that this deal means that Gotham, which is a FOx Television and Warner Bros. Television co-production, might be needing to find a new home.
 
UssGlenn said:
So if I understand this correctly, Disney buys the Fox Television Division and all the shows produced by it (36 currently in production), and the 20th Century Fox Studio and movies. But they aren't buying the actual broadcast network or the 20th Century Fox Studio Lot/Soundstages.
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The Fox broadcast network and all the stations it directly owns, Fox News, Fox Business, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network are all getting spun off into their own new company (congratulations, Disney, you just gave $50 billion to fund a Breitbart competitor). Literally everything else goes to Disney.
 
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