BREAKING NEWS: (If It's True) Fox To Sell To Disney

Update.

A deal could be announced next week.


X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool in the MCU? (I admit I'm not a DECU fan, but I do have pity...)

Merry Christmas. Ho-ho-ho...

Not sure this is actually good news folks. Right now we have two studios competing with each other to put out films. If Disney owned the lot of it we probably get less films in total.

I'd much rather see them just get the FF rights and let Fox keep on keepin' on with the X-films. Or if not that then at least some sort of DOJ ruling that they have to run Fox films independently or something.

I hope you're right. I mean, if it's really just behind the scenes and we still essentially get the same number of films (the market will bear it you'd assume) then great. Allow them to allocate characters better and do the occasional crossover even etc. But I worry that it could literally be a monopoly or that they'll think they need to just cram everyone into the MCU including the X-men which I just don't think would work as a full-time thing.

My question in all this is at what point will Disney have to cut out acquiring everything it can get it's gloved hands on before the anti-monopoly laws kick in?

Well, The Flash repeatedly uses alternative realities as major plot points, but I'm specifically referring to what they did with Supergirl here. Since that show didn't start on The CW, she wasn't initially part of the Arrowverse. They threw in an easter egg during S2 of The Flash, when Barry travelled to another Earth, and there were some flashing images from other realities, one of them including Supergirl, thus hinting that her world was just another Earth set in the multiverse. After Supergirl switched networks going into S2, Barry accidentally travelled to that reality at one point, and a permanent crossover possibility was established. 

Now, Supergirl is for all accounts and purposes still an independent show, that shares very little with the other three Arrowverse shows in general. I mean, barely a week goes by that those three don't reference each other in some way! Yet the possibility to connect the storylines and characters is there and as the two four-way crossovers they already did prove, also gets used. 


Something similar might work for the MCU and the X-Men and FF universes. Although, to be honest, I wouldn't mind if they just keep things separated at this point. Bringing the FF into the MCU I could see without problem, but the mutants?? Nah!

After the Feds go after Comcast.  (Remember that just over a decade ago, Comcast tried to buy Disney.)

And if the AT&T/Time-Warner merger goes through, both Comcast (which includes Xfinity and NBC/Universal) and AT&T/Time-Warner (Uverse/DirecTV and Warner Brothers) will be larger than Disney.  Disney just happens to be more successful in just about every corner of the media world, which does not involve any monopoly laws.

The actually question should be at what point does Disney saturate their own market.  I believe between Disney Animation/Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel, they are close to releasing one MAJOR blockbuster every six weeks or so.  The addition of TWC could make that one per month...

Oh I'm not worried that they'd kill it off or something. I'm only really worried about two possibilities:

1. That the new huge company would end up putting out less films in total. If they have specific execs or departments they want to be part of all the Marvel films then it could lead to less output. Though this concern is somewhat less today than it was a few years ago given the number of films they're already producing for the MCU. So maybe this isn't a big concern.

2. My bigger concern is that they might think they *need* to quickly wedge the X-Men into the MCU and make them the focus. They handled Spider-Man fairly well so again maybe I don't need to worry, but I don't wan to see Wolverine get an Avengers card. Everyone seems to have one in the comics and it's a bit silly. Having Beast end up joining or doing something that makes sense is fine of course, I just don't want anything taken away from the current MCU or have characters pushed to the background.

There are clearly a ton of great stories they could tell and a huge history to pull from - and if they do it as a slow burn over decades then great. I just worry some exec somewhere will decide they need to put out AvX in 2021 and rush to the finish line. I'd rather see them keep the XCU separate and do a couple of strategic crossovers as infrequent events. Or if they want to try one big happy MCU with everyone then keep the massive crossovers to a minimum so they mean something.

But yeah, seeing Reed Richards interact with Tony Stark or seeing Ben Grimm spar with the Hulk would be awesome.