Normally a novelist keeps copyright of thier creations and licensing to a 3rd party after publication is both essential and potentially very lucrative for them if they want a film or TV adaptation done from their work.
It would be smart for them to do it. To distance themselves from the Fox movies
One thing that stuck out to me about that part of the interview was Feige pointing out that it was unusual for Marvel to lack what other studios have which was access to all their characters. IMO, Feige seems to be somewhat envious of competitors such as Warners/DC who do have complete access to all the their characters.
Imagine what this place would be like if we got news like that!
It would be ideal to get full rights there as well. It might take some skill to do Namor properly in a post-Aquaman world.
Yeah, I mean perpetuity is excessive. They should have made it 25 years or so.
Oh yeah, I just mentioned that straight after you lol. Aquaman has made too much of a splash to do a Namor right now IMO. Of course I'd love to get Namor into the MCU but someone with more vision than me will have to figure out the best way to do it now that Aquaman is all over the place.
I would have loved to see that. It's a shame the Spidey rights are still a bit complicated.
They might want that character around for a very long time.
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