Because Marvel Studios doesn’t own the rights to X-Men, Fantastic Four, or Deadpool, and Fox doesn’t own the rights to any of the Marvel Studio characters, they are not free to use them in any way for their respective films, although Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have a complicated copyright that allows the two characters to appear in a Marvel and Fox films (not played by the same actors of course). Even with that sort of loophole in play, many wonder what would happen should the rights revert back to Marvel. We got a small glimpse of what happens when studios decide to share their characters when Marvel and Sony inked a deal that allowed Spider-Man to appear in the MCU early last year.
However Fox doesn’t seem to be interested in making a similar deal – most likely because the X-Men film franchise is a successful one and they met the Fantastic Four deadline that allows them to keep the property for another few years. But that isn’t stopping Marvel from making contingency plans to fit those characters into the MCU should the rights revert back to them. More on the story below.
During a Q & A event for the home entertainment release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, /Film asked about introducing characters they never would believe they would have the rights to into their universe. Here’s what Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told him:
“The short answer is: the most important thing is the standalone movie, relaunching Spider-Man with a standalone movie with a new storyline that fits into this universe – that’s job number one for us. And as is the case, the connectivity is great but it doesn’t drive the train. That being said, if I understand what you’re asking, we had”¦ this has been a dream of ours for a long time, and we always had contingency plans should you know “” which we always do anyways. Are we going to be able to make another movie with this actor? If we are then we’ll do this, if not, we’re going to do this. If we get the rights to a certain character that’d be great, then we’d do this, if not, we’d do this. So we always sort of operate with those alternate timelines available and are ready to shift if something happens.”
Well Wolverine 3 is rumored to be the end of Bryan Singer’s X-Men film saga; although he has expressed an interest in staying with the franchise for as long as he can, so there is a possibility that after each of the respective franchises stories are over they can come to some sort of agreement and share the characters. Wishful thinking I know.
Still, it’s no surprise that Marvel is planning this far ahead. Remember, talks of Sony sharing Spider-Man with Marvel were teased long before the announcement came last year, and though introducing him in Captain America: Civil War looked like a last-minute decision, Feige’s comments seem to tell us that they’ve had something like this up their sleeves in the event they were allowed to use characters that were out of their reach. So even if they have plans to use X-Men, Wolverine, or any of the Fantastic Four, and couldn’t use them, they could easily be written out, and no one would be none the wiser.
[Source: /Film]
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