MCU Architect Kevin Feige Reportedly Keen To Cross-Pollinate Fox/Marvel Characters

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News of the potential Disney/Fox deal has reached Marvel Towers, and Kevin Feige is reportedly keen to cross-pollinate “the rich swarm” of Fox characters with his existing Marvel heroes.
Of course, Feige was likely well aware of Disney’s ongoing pursuit of 21st Century Fox and its entertainment assets long before the news became official, but a new report from Deadline now claims that the MCU architect is “eager to get his hands on the X-Men universe.” Hardly surprising, really, considering the sheer amount of success (and box office revenue!) that Feige and Co. enjoyed by incorporating Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Via Deadline:
He’s said to be eager to get his hands on the X-Men universe — Fox has Deadpool 2, New Mutants, Dark Phoenix, Gambit, X-Force and the James Franco-starrer Multiple Man all on the assembly line — and cross-pollinate the rich swarm of characters with the existing Marvel franchise heroes who show up in each other’s films.

Deadline’s in-depth report also alludes to one other crucial fact: Kevin Feige’s MCU division is responsible for four of the highest-grossing films of all time in The Avengers, Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3, and Age of Ultron. And, well, let’s just say we’ll be very surprised if Infinity War falls short of $1 billion come 2018.
All things considered, it’s small wonder why Feige is considered to be one of the more important facets of this landmark acquisition; with a team of experts and kick-ass directors at his disposal, he fostered the development of a true box office juggernaut, which may soon welcome the likes of Wolverine, Deadpool and other major comic book characters into its midst.
Last we reported, negotiations between the Mouse House and Fox had progressed, with CNBC claiming that a deal could be finalized as soon as next week. More on Disney‘s potential acquisition when we have it.
Source: Deadline

I know about the licensing and whatnot deals that were done, but I still think its fcuked up that Fox "own" the X-men and Deadpool.

Its like the Cartoon Network, after some shady deal, owning Minne Mouse.

Edit: Yeah I know Disney now owns Lucasfilm and Star Wars. (Im watching A New Hope as I type this). Its just business right?

I still think selling part of a universe off is wrong. What next? Fox buys the Klingons from Star Trek and do standalone Klingon movies?

God, with everything going on I really thought that Feige had assaulted someone when I first read the title.

Spon Farmer

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God, with everything going on I really thought that Feige had assaulted someone when I first read the title.

It is a disturbing way to phrase it, to be sure.

As to the crossover itself, I'm not interested X-Men as they are at Fox right now being a part of the MCU as I don't find the characters or stories to interesting or fun. Plus the fact that Mutants existing since the 60's doesn't fit the MCU history.

If they rebooted the X-Men so that they and other Mutants spring from the current Inhuman storyline then that could be good.

I do want Fantastic Four to get the MCU treatment and I haven't seen Deadpool yet so I don't know if they are tied into the Fox's X-Men but should be easy enough to fit for the MCU.

PhiloCypher

As fun a thought as marvel having all its toys back to play with is , would we have seen risks like an R rated Logan and Deadpool undertaken under the stewardship of the mouse ?

Spon Farmer

PhiloCypher wrote: »

As fun a thought as marvel having all its toys back to play with is , would we have seen risks like an R rated Logan and Deadpool undertaken under the stewardship of the mouse ?

I don't want the MCU movies to more "adult" - they are great fun just the way they are. To be honest, I'd like then to tone down the cussing. :rolleyes:

What were the risks of Logan and Deadpool exactly? I'm not being snarky but weren't the Wolverine movies only healthy at the box office and nothing spectacular? And wasn't it Reynolds and the creatives on Deadpool than pushed for the freedom to make it a real Deadpool movie? As I recollect it was spoken of that they really, really had to convince Fox it was never going to work otherwise.

PhiloCypher

Spon Farmer wrote: »

I don't want the MCU movies to more "adult" - they are great fun just the way they are. To be honest, I'd like then to tone down the cussing. :rolleyes:

What were the risks of Logan and Deadpool exactly? I'm not being snarky but weren't the Wolverine movies only healthy at the box office and nothing spectacular? And wasn't it Reynolds and the creatives on Deadpool than pushed for the freedom to make it a real Deadpool movie? As I recollect it was spoken of that they really, really had to convince Fox it was never going to work otherwise.

I don't want an R rated Iron man either, not all characters warrant it, all I was saying was that in all likely hood creative risks like making Deadpool and Logan R rated wouldn't have happened under the Disney banner.

The Risks ?? they could have gone from healthy to making a loss, as for Ryan Reynolds and the creatives(great band name btw), doesn't matter who convinced who, Fox were the ones who took a gamble on a potty mouthed assassin who didn't really have much name recognition (beyond comic nerd circles prior to the movie) and fronted the money.

Spon Farmer

PhiloCypher wrote: »

I don't want an R rated Iron man either, not all characters warrant it, all I was saying was that in all likely hood creative risks like making Deadpool and Logan R rated wouldn't have happened under the Disney banner.

The Risks ?? they could have gone from healthy to making a loss, as for Ryan Reynolds and the creatives(great band name btw), doesn't matter who convinced who, Fox were the ones who took a gamble on a potty mouthed assassin who didn't really have much name recognition (beyond comic nerd circles prior to the movie) and fronted the money.

By "healthy" I meant nothing spectacular at box office and not the kind of interest the MCU movies get in both audience and media attention and the Wolverine movies weren't the least bit creative - they were just pushing out any old tat until Logan Deadpool wouldn't have been the first unknown that a studio poured money into and that didn't work out.

I don't know that many take risks or gambles as opposed to just throwing money at something.

Fysh

Spon Farmer wrote: »

It is a disturbing way to phrase it, to be sure.

As to the crossover itself, I'm not interested X-Men as they are at Fox right now being a part of the MCU as I don't find the characters or stories to interesting or fun. Plus the fact that Mutants existing since the 60's doesn't fit the MCU history.

If they rebooted the X-Men so that they and other Mutants spring from the current Inhuman storyline then that could be good.

I do want Fantastic Four to get the MCU treatment and I haven't seen Deadpool yet so I don't know if they are tied into the Fox's X-Men but should be easy enough to fit for the MCU.

For me there's a uniformity to the MCU films (mostly) that generally kills my interest, so the idea of taking the X-Men and Deadpool fims and shoving them in there has no appeal. Deadpool in particular is a complete tonal mismatch for the MCU, the only thing that would mesh worse would be one of those porn spoof films. The X-men films haven't been uniformly great or anything, but I think it'd be a real pity to constrain them to the same formula as the MCU films just because the charactera originated with the same publisher. Look at the dull waste of space that was the MCU Quicksilver compared to the version in DofP and Apocalypse, for example.

If Disney do get the rights back, it'll just mean more uniformity in the films, which I think is a bad thing because we already get plenty of fairly uniform MCU films as it is. And would also make it less likely that we'd get things like the Legion TV show.

Tbh, there's already one medium in which shared-universe superhero land fill saturates the marketplace, and I don't think we need to cheerlead the same thing happening in another medium as well.