The film's continuity with the X-Men franchise

No....

The MCU is where this franchise belongs.

 

I think it could be a rich "universe" if done so. Imagine mutants alongside F4.
Maybe an even richer and bigger universe than we have seen in Avengers (up to now).

"Do you think you are the only superhero team in the world?"

 

Bad idea. The X-verse has a very different tone than most other Marvel series and even in the comics it is hard to incorporate them into the rest of the MU.
With just the FF and the X-Men, two very different franchises, you just can't build a working interconnecting universe the way MS did. It doesn't fit.
Just drop this stupidity and return the rights to FF to MS, where it really belongs, the f*** up the X-verse as much as you want, I don't care

 

Franklin will be a mutant.

 

FF: "No, but we're unfortunately the only other superhero team in this world..."

THAT would be cool... and if he showed up in X-Men: DOFP as an adult in the future, with Rachel Summers?? I'm sure it's been brought up before in the X-Men forums, but yeah.. could he be the first Fantastic Four character we'll see next?

 

I think it would be difficult to put a massive universe like X-Men with anything but I am curious to see how this proposed shared universe could work. It could be very cool, I for one wish Fox would make a deal with Marvel Studios so we could have the characters from both franchises appear somehow in the MCU somehow. But I'm not sure want to think about it yet.

How cool would it be to have a Silver Surfer or Galactus cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy?!

 

So neither Fox (Fantastic 4, X-Men, Daredevil) or Sony (Spider-Man, Ghost Rider) should do team-up movies?
But what if these studios want to follow in the footsteps of Marvel Studios? A team-up has potential to bring in a great deal of money, and that's all (some) studios think of.

Difference in style between characters doesn't really matter. All it takes is to come up with a far fetched explanation how they can exist in the same "world". After all, Iron Man and Thor together doesn't makes sense either at first sight, but it still worked in live action.

 

Does Sony even view Ghost Rider as being worthy of pursuing anymore?

 

If he works together with the cash cow Spider-Man, maybe so.

 

Time will tell. Lionsgate turned over the Punisher rights pretty quickly after War Zone bombed, but Sony hasn't done so with Ghost Rider despite GR:SOV's poor box office performance. Sony is just coming off of its best year ever at the box office, thanks in large part to Skyfall, TASM and MIB3, and I wonder if the shine of that accomplishment has caused them to want to hold onto the Ghost Rider rights just for the sake of it. It won't cost them anything to do so for a while.

 

DD is no longer at Fox thankfully

 

Marvel might already have the rights to Ghost Rider & just not have announced it yet. They announced that they owned both Punisher & Blade again at their MCU panel at SDCC.

 

I think I could see Ghost Rider existing in the world of TASM.

I don't understand what Sony would possibly want to do with Ghost Rider at this point, I didn't even think the first film was enough of a financial success to warrant a sequel. I would think after less than stellar installments Sony wouldn't be stingy and give it up. I think if X-Men and FF became constant bombs Fox wouldn't want to hang on to the franchise any longer.

I had no idea Marvel had the Blade rights back! Thats fantastic! (Although I did like Snipes as Blade)

 

Getting Daredvil and Blade back.... does it mean we'll see them in a future Avengers?

 

^ Daredevil could fill in for Black Widow if she is to be killed off, or replaced.

 

Or Hawkeye, who I wouldn't mind biting the dust. Marvel needs female characters on the big screen IMO.

 

But Daredevil is closer to BW in terms of the bad-ass martial arts style fighting.
Hawkeye is more a Bullseye.

 

Here is the thing, unless there is a good story reason to put them together in the same movie, none of this really matters too much. I personally don't care if Reed Richards name drops Beast or Johnny Storm name drops Wolverine, none of that makes a movie better or the universe they are trying to create more cohesive. The problem is the franchises in the Avengers and the movies leading up to it had reasons to work together and that the X-Men and FF don't have much interesting shared history.

 

Agreed.

But they DO have an interesting shared possible future, with Franklin Richards in the DOFP storyline. And wasn't he involved in the Onslaught saga?

 

Well said .