The Rebooted "Keep Hope Alive" (that the rights can revert back to Marvel) Thread - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 24

[Abudefduf]

I want to ask if people here would be fine with losing Spider-Man to Sony on the heels of Venom success, but gaining the X-Men/F4 back because of the Disney/Fox purchase. Personally I am fine with that.

I don't want to choose. I want Spider-Man, his villains and Spider-Woman in the MCU. I want Disney to own the rights to every single Marvel ever created. Including Conan, why tf not.

In the New Mutants thread a user who allegedly works on these movies leaked that Namor is on the way.
He got some things right in the past but this time the casting he purports is really hard to believe, make of that what you want.

Intentionally or by coincidence? That's what I wonder. This time he made a mistake, though... he said something that can easily be proven false.

Lol, that guy as Namor. No way.

 

[Detective Conan]

That Once Upon a Deadpool trailer is hilarious.

Fred Savage: “Kinda prefer Marvel movies.”

Deadpool: “We are Marvel.”

Fred Savage: “Yeah, but you’re you know, Marvel licensed by Fox. It’s like if the Beatles were produced by Nickeback. It’s music, but it sucks.”

Damn Fox. You really are self aware, aren’t you?

 

[ImSGirl95]

Haha, yeah, just saw the trailer, too. And that bit was hillarious.

 

[PsylockeBlackWidow]

It seems that of course, both US and EU approval of the Disney Fox deal got a lot of news coverage, but India, of course, approved it too and despite having a population larger than the US and EU combined, it did not receive any news coverage except for that one Indian site, why so?

 

[Lilbaz]

It seems that of course, both US and EU approval of the Disney Fox deal got a lot of news coverage, but India, of course, approved it too and despite having a population larger than the US and EU combined, it did not receive any news coverage except for that one Indian site, why so?

Because the merger involves british and american companies and no indian ones as far as i'm aware?

Indians don't really care? They have their own film industry that makes twice as many films a year as hollywood.

 

[WeaponXCII]

I want to ask if people here would be fine with losing Spider-Man to Sony on the heels of Venom success, but gaining the X-Men/F4 back because of the Disney/Fox purchase. Personally I am fine with that.

When Raimi made his Spider-Man movies, he never set out to make something that was ashamed of itself. Hell, neither did Tim Story- in fact, the guy might've gone too far. But this is something that we have never truly seen from the X-Men at Fox. That, to me, is probably the deciding factor.

But then I realize that Spider-Man means as much to someone as the X-Men mean to me, or the Fantastic Four mean to Willie. Ultimately, though, echoing what Willie said, my strongest desire is for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be a universe.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

That Once Upon a Deadpool trailer is hilarious.

Fred Savage: “Kinda prefer Marvel movies.”

Deadpool: “We are Marvel.”

Fred Savage: “Yeah, but you’re you know, Marvel licensed by Fox. It’s like if the Beatles were produced by nickleback. It’s music, but it sucks.”

Damn Fox. You really are self aware, aren’t you?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Aside from Jessica Alba, I really and honestly didn't see where Fantastic Four (2005) was all that bad.

Now Rise of The Silver Surfer..... eh.

 

[Detective Conan]

Disney Gets China Approval for Fox Acquisition

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Disney Gets China Approval for Fox Acquisition

 

[Bach]

 

[Marvel united]

Disney Gets China Approval for Fox Acquisition

Great news. Things have to be getting close now

 

[HBarnill]

RIP to the many who will lose their jobs for consumerism.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Ain't no stopping this, LOL!

 

[TheWebbedDevil]

So does this mean that Disney has basically acquired FOX at this point?

 

[HBarnill]

Screw it, if Disney fires Seth MacFarlane from doing anything, maybe it will be all worth it.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I’m just amazed at how fast this damn thing is moving.

Feige better stop playing the coy game and just start talking about his new toys. You’re getting your mutants back bro!!!

 

[WeaponXCII]

Disney Gets China Approval for Fox Acquisition

Stan, Jack, Steve, and all the rest must be getting ready to pop the champagne out there in the astral plane. We must be getting really close!

 

[WeaponXCII]

RIP to the many who will lose their jobs for consumerism.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

Disney Gets China Approval for Fox Acquisition

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

So does this mean that Disney has basically acquired FOX at this point?

No, but it means all of the major hurdles have been crossed. There may still be a few countries that need to approve and then they have to set a closing date, but it's just a matter of time now. I would expect the deal will be officially and completely done early in 2019.

 

[Marvel united]

I wonder what the time-window for the closing date is now. I assume China was the biggest hurdle for the deal and now that that's out of the way, it should be smooth sailing.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Early 2019 makes sense for close date.

 

[PsylockeBlackWidow]

They I think have to deal with another hurdle: Brazil.

 

[Detective Conan]

So does this mean that Disney has basically acquired FOX at this point?

There’s still a few more markets like Brazil that the deal has to get approval in before it can officially close but at this point the deal being closed is pretty much inevitable. So in way it’s more a matter of ‘when’ the deal closes and than it is a matter of ‘if’ the deal closes. China was the big question mark on whether or not the deal would get approval there since the US is currently in the midst of a trade war with China and as seen with Qualcomm/NXP deal being blocked China could’ve singlehandly sabotaged the Disney/Fox as part of China’s way to get back at the current administration for the trade war. But with this recent approval those fears can finally be put to bed.