Marvel's movie rights question

[roach]

Sure, but unless there's an explicit stipulation that Fox has to produce a movie in xx years, I expect Fox can meet the threshold rather easily. It wouldn't surprise me if they're having up and coming screenwriters churn out scripts for these properties as basically auditions. And they can truthfully say, "we're working on scripts".

without knowing what the stipulations are trying to guess what they are or how they can keep the rights is rather pointless.

 

[Evil Twin]

without knowing what the stipulations are trying to guess what they are or how they can keep the rights is rather pointless.

True, but my point is that unless there's something concrete and definitive, it's likely that a studio can meet any hurdles without breaking a sweat.

And, frankly, I'd bet on the contract being very favorable to the studios. Especially since we're talking about contracts written when Marvel was bankrupt and desperate for money in the late '90s.

 

[roach]

Fox makes these movie with Marvel. Its not like Marvel has no say in these films and doesn't know whats going on.

 

[Spider - Man]

List of rights off the top of my head, that Marvel Studios has:

Adam Warlock
Ant-Man
Avengers
Black Knight
Black Panther
Black Widow
Captain America
Captain Britain
Captain Marvel
Cloak and Dagger
Darkhawk
Death's Head
Deathlok
Defenders
Doctor Strange
The Eternals
Falcon
Fool Killer
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hawkeye
Hercules
Heroes For Hire
Howard The Duck
Howling Commandos
Hulk
Inhumans
Invaders
Iron Fist
Ka-Zar
Killraven
Luke Cage
Man-Thing
Moon Knight
Ms. Marvel
Namor the Submariner
New Warriors
Nick Fury
Nova
Power Pack
Punisher
Quasar
Rom: Space Knight
Runaways
S.H.I.E.L.D.
She-Hulk
Sentry
Shang Chi
Shanna The She-Devil
Sleepwalker
Squadron Supreme
Thunderbolts
Vision
Werewolf By Night

Are you sure they own the rights to Rom? I thought that was a Hasbro property or something. That would be awesome and make a great film series!

 

[marcvader]

Is Alpha Flight part of the X-Men deal?

 

[cherokeesam]

Is Alpha Flight part of the X-Men deal?

I see no reason they wouldn't be. Or Excalibur, either. Damn shame, though --- Fox would probably never develop films based on those.

 

[KangConquers]

Are you sure they own the rights to Rom? I thought that was a Hasbro property or something. That would be awesome and make a great film series!

Oh, ****. You're right...which is also why Spaceknights are in Annihilation but not Rom himself.

 

[marcvader]

I see no reason they wouldn't be. Or Excalibur, either. Damn shame, though --- Fox would probably never develop films based on those.

I wonder if FOX would ever consider developing something like New Mutants though.

 

[cherokeesam]

I wonder if FOX would ever consider developing something like New Mutants though.

I wish to god Fox would consider putting together *some* X-team on TV. Seems to me that a franchise like New Mutants, Alpha Flight, Excalibur, Generation X, or even X-Statix would make a great series, and have them exist in the same continuity as the movies (even if the "big guns" from X-Men proper don't play a part in the TV show).

 

[roach]

I wish to god Fox would consider putting together *some* X-team on TV. Seems to me that a franchise like New Mutants, Alpha Flight, Excalibur, Generation X, or even X-Statix would make a great series, and have them exist in the same continuity as the movies (even if the "big guns" from X-Men proper don't play a part in the TV show).

Fox has movie rights to the X-men
Marvel has all the tv rights to their characters

 

[babykhris]

Really? I thought Marvel didn't have TV rights to Daredevil & Ghost Rider.

 

[roach]

Really? I thought Marvel didn't have TV rights to Daredevil & Ghost Rider.

i seem to recall an interview where they said they owned all their characters on tv...which is why they all show up on the Superhero Squad show

 

[the gael]

i seem to recall an interview where they said they owned all their characters on tv...which is why they all show up on the Superhero Squad show

that's interesting, but why was there the whole "mutant x" fiasco some years ago in this case ?

 

[marcvader]

I think Marvel only owns the animation rights to all its characters when it comes to television.

 

[roach]

i'll have to look for it but I could have sworn they said somewhere they own all their characters on tv

 

[Golgo-13]

Does it own the rights to She-Hulk and Spider-Woman?

Seeing as how there has yet to be a successful female lead superhero movie out there, and Marvel seems to have found the winning formula with their Avengers based heros, it might be a good idea for them to introduce a few of their female heros, as cameos in these movies, to build some sort of anticipation....

 

[roach]

Does it own the rights to She-Hulk and Spider-Woman?

Seeing as how there has yet to be a successful female lead superhero movie out there, and Marvel seems to have found the winning formula with their Avengers based heros, it might be a good idea for them to introduce a few of their female heros, as cameos in these movies, to build some sort of anticipation....

depends
if She-hulk was part of the Hulk deal they own her, if she was part of the Fantastic Four deal (she was a member for a number of years) they don't.

same goes for Spider-woman she may have been part of the Spider-man deal (yes she may have very little to do with Spider-man but a Sony could have nabbed the rights when they got spider-man just to prevent a rival studio from making a female version of spider-man).

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

I doubt that Shulkie was part of the FF deal.

 

[roach]

again without knowing the contents of the contracts its all speculation...

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Doesn't Marvel get a cut of what these other studios make off their characters?

like 5 or 10 percent?

 

[roach]

the problem with the non Marvel studio films is that Marvel makes very little on them.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I still say Marvel could've put a 15-20 year limit on how long other studios kept their characters and still saved themselves from bankruptcy.

Giving studios the rights to Spider-man and X-men indefinitely was pretty dumb.

 

[roach]

I still say Marvel could've put a 15-20 year limit on how long other studios kept their characters and still saved themselves from bankruptcy.

Giving studios the rights to Spider-man and X-men indefinitely was pretty dumb.

we say that now because superheroes are a hot commodity
think back to before Spider-man and X-men came out...superheroes didn't dominate the box office like they do now.
Marvel didn't know they were gonna start a trend in movies...im sure at the time they didn't think they were going to have a studio

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

we say that now because superheroes are a hot commodity
think back to before Spider-man and X-men came out...superheroes didn't dominate the box office like they do now.
Marvel didn't know they were gonna start a trend in movies...im sure at the time they didn't think they were going to have a studio

I understand they were desperate but giving the rights away possibly forever seemed a bit extreme. I'm sure the studios would've still paid for the rights even if there was a 20 year cap.

I can't imagine the studio saying "we get exclusive movie rights to characters as popular as Batman for ONLY 20 years??? No thanks."

 

[Neo_3]

Isn't Killraven over at Sony?