DarthSkywalker
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Why wouldn't they be able to?
If Fox have rights to certain visual representations of the character and Marvel have other visual representations, then they might be limited. Or maybe one only has the essence of the character but can't make it look like the classic image at all.
Viper in The Wolverine was somewhat similar. She wasn't the Madame Hydra look but reimagined as some kind of mutant who could shed her skin and has a long tongue. Also she has blonde hair instead of the familiar dark green.
I don't think thats how it works. I think it's divided along concept, not look. I doubt either company specifically laid exclusive claim to the character's ethnicity.
That might have just been an aesthetic choice because they thought the green hair looked silly in the context of the film.
Not ethnicity per se but design rights, and physical representations which might have been trademarked and included in those IP rights which Fox were assigned. The use of Ronan for Scarlet Witch (who looks decidedly different from the character) might be not because they wish to change her ethnicity but that they have to come up with a different visual representation to distinguish it from a design which Fox might hold.
But for the wrong movie. If it were Ronan in XM: DOFP as Scarlet Witch instead, it might be more appropriate. Marvel's Wanda isn't even connected to Magneto.
http://www.themarysue.com/exclusive-saoirse-ronan-scarlet-witch/
Joss wants Ronan, Ronan wants in. Make it happen.
Co-sign.I just read that. Make it happen. For all that is glorious, make it happen.
Absent actual evidence, I don't buy that this is some effort to avoid an appearance license issue. If the contract actually did specify and restrict based on appearance, it would leave too many opportunities for loophole abuse.
( I don't consider Viper evidence; I consider her "we aren't feeling beholden to the comics, and especially don't want to tie her to an organization we don't have the rights to" )
But for the wrong movie. If it were Ronan in XM: DOFP as Scarlet Witch instead, it might be more appropriate. Marvel's Wanda isn't even connected to Magneto.
This is a really left-field choice, and probably won't happen since she's tied up with Superman, but how about Antje Traue - Faora in Man of Steel?
If she grows her hair and curls it I think she'd look like comic Wanda
Antje gives off more of a WW type than the dainty girly Wasp.