Dark Phoenix If Marvel happens to finalize the sale w/Fox before the X-men release date, which is most likely?

[Limonade]

How is releasing it going to damage their brand? Everbody knows that version of the xmen is not a part of the mcu. Disney might have bought fox but it will still be a fox film.

Regardless how i feel? Again you are suggesting i have some emotional attachment to this film, i don't. Check the dark phoenix forum i haven't posted a single post in there because i couldn't care less about the film. I think you're the one who has strong feelings about this film and your emotion is clouding your judgement. You want it to fail and not be released. I couldn't give a flying f if it is or not.

Who knows how? The movie could suck bad and people won't care about the X-Men... essentially having Marvel start from scratch.

The movie can be amazing and anything that Marvel does afterwards won't be as good.

Will Disney want to roll that dice? No. They don't want to even give them the chance. Those are your binary scenarios: one good and one bad. It could fall somewhere in the middle as well. But Disney, I'm taking a guess, won't want to do that.

And as for you emotional connection with this film... I could care less how you feel either... because we're arguing over the realistic possibilities. Those that say Disney should just release the Dark Phoenix film haven't been following what Disney has been doing the last 2 years or are not trying to understand the things that they do has a goal/purpose. And that supersedes any other studios plans.

In fact, pretend you're in Bob Iger's role and think about how you would make these decisions about your company.

 

[psylockolussus]

Just scrap the film and start from scratch.

 

[Mr. Peanut]

When I go to watch it in theaters, I'll be thinking of psylockolussus's salt as I munch on my popcorn.

 

[psylockolussus]

They will release it in June.
This isn't so much about Dark Phoenix being terrible as as it is about giving Alita Battle Angel a better chance to succeed.

And what about Dark PhoeniX. June will be crowded and would lead to bigger drops. Unless FoX is already throwing the towel because its the last one then okay. It also doesn't sound good that FoX cares about more about Alita and let the X-Men take the heat.

 

[Mysteryman]

Alita Battle Angel was stuck in a very crowded release date, the week before Christmas.
Fox had no choice.

 

[SumT]

and Dark Phoenix arrives a month after Avengers 4, a huge cbm event.
Talk about worst decision ever lol. Avenergs would still be in theatres when XMen premiere. Good luck, Fox, you will need it

 

[mclay18]

This thread is ridiculous.

Even if Disney finalized the sale tomorrow or by the end of the year, it will take months for the buyout to affect the marketing and distribution channels. Plus there is likely a deal for Disney to keep the Fox branding on films being shot or in post-production.

Disney is NOT going to scrap a $185 million film and shunt it to a streaming platform. Investors like the Seelig group (who has a co-financing deal with Fox) can sue and it would be bad publicity for the Mouse House. I can see Disney selling the distribution rights to a different studio and start clean, but Dark Phoenix will get a theatrical release.

 

[DACrowe]

Yawn, Marvel is assuming Fox's debt, no business wants to run up the money they owe, potentially by hundreds of millions of dollars.

This movie is coming out. They screened the first 15 minutes at New York Comic-Con. The only people who are really this concerned are the fanboys on the Internet. It will be released next year. It probably won't be very good (but I am genuinely rooting for it!), and then Fox will quietly reboot it and not announce the new version until they probably have a director sometime in 2020.

... With that said, I could see New Mutants going away...

 

[mclay18]

New Mutants will probably get sent off to streaming or a different studio, depending on the cost.

After all, Disney sold off Earth to Echo to Relativity...

 

[JP]

they'll dump it in theaters on the 7th. The crowded summer will destroy it just like all the x-men films.

 

[icekid]

It’ll be released in theaters, without a shadow of a doubt. Not only is it the only route due to all the intricacies on the business side of things that everyone ignores or is unaware of, but from a branding standpoint as well.

We are getting MCU content on their streaming service, with content centered around Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch and Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, which are MCU cornerstones at this point. Why would debuting a Marvel but non-MCU big event on the streaming service make any more sense when they want to house it all under one Marvel?

Release it under the Fox banner even if the deal is done and it’s all cleaned up neatly for them to pick up with a stronger and faithful adaptation.