What Disney Buying Fox Could Actually Mean for Marvel, X-Men and More 

Stan Lee said the X-Men were coming back to Marvel

The real reason though, that Disney wants the Fox’s priorities is for their streaming service coming out in 2019. They want to be able to stream all of the Disney movies, all of He marvel and Star Wars movies, heck all of the Pixar movies. That still not enough. If they get The Simpsons, family guy, bobs burgers, then their app suddenly becomes a lot more insisting

They won't keep the Xmen separate, that'd just be a waste. I do hope they reboot. They need their own team, their own actors, and their own story. They need to establish new everything as to make it fit in their universe and to sell it to the audience.

I'm rarely ever optimistic about something like this but that Kevin Feige got me confident in whatever they come up with. To my knowledge also even if Fox sold to someone else the right aren't transferable anyway so Marvel no matter what would still get FF and the X-Men universe.

If they do get the X- men and Fantastic Four back then I’ll be happy. X-men is going to be tough to deal with since it’s an on going franchise. Deadpool is easy, he can simply acknowledge that he was bought back and make a joke out of it.

In ant-man and the wasp, they have already mentioned that they will be introducing the multiverse. I think this would be a good way to start the x-men.

What should they do with Deadpool? Deadpool and Rocket Raccoon movie. It'd be awesome!

Okay. I had to pause the video before I lost this idea. Your idea for Professor X having an added character drive of keeping the handful of mutants that are known to him safe from the public eye and possibly striking a deal with Nick Fury works *so well.* Fury could even draw comparisons to the events of Civil War - namely how the public reacted to Hulk - to convince Xavier to put his dream of humans and mutants living together on hold.

They could just treat Deadpool movies like they have treated the Netflix / ABC shows in that they will acknowledge and be influenced by the events in the main MCU, but the larger MCU won't be influenced by the events of Deadpool.

FX was actually included

The only thing that scares me about Disney buying Fox is what will happen to Gotham? Maybe they could sell to WB and CBS so it could possibly move to the CW. Or just keep the show on the air on Fox. I think it just works best on Fox.

While I'm unsure how they'll integrate the X-Men, I am mostly excited about this. I've enjoyed the X-Men movies overall. Some were great, some were good, some were tire fires. And yeah the X-Men movies have been coming out for a long time. There is some good history to that. But I don't mind switching it up and starting mostly fresh. Mostly since they can do that. Maybe your idea will be something they use or they find some other way to safely introduce mutants. If they can figure that out, I'm all for it. There is so much good they can do with this. If they choose to focus on Cyclops and other characters that were less important during the Fox version that's good. Wolverine basically dominated that whole franchise. For good reason, he was freaking awesome. But Cyclops never had a really incarnation in any of those movies. Some were ok, but he was really a secondary figure overall. You could actually make him a leader and that could help fill the void that will be made when Captain America and Iron man transition out. He doesn't have to do it alone since we've got Doctor Strange and others stepping forward, but that's an option. The villain side of it is exciting. I mean we could get a really good Doctor Doom. We could get 'not a cloud' Galactus be a major MCU threat that would require the X-Men, Guardians, Avengers, etc. The MCU's space side is being fleshed out, but there is room to add all sorts of villains and threats from those other franchises. I get why some people wouldn't like it, but the more I think about the potential the more exciting it is. Deadpool is an interesting thing. They might just keep him in his own place and that could work. Though with the multiverse possibility from Doctor Strange, I think you could fit him in and just make it work. Hard to say how they'd feel about a very much R-rated character mixing in with the rest, but it could happen.

Deadpool and wolverine will be all kid friendly if this happens and that will be stupid

I do hope they just kill everything past Deadpool 2. That they don't put them in the MCU - that instead they reboot them and make an "XCU" where they develop the different teams of mutants who can then crossover with each other

They should have Scarlet witch admit she is a mutant and that the Lokis spear brought out her powers not created them.

What they could do is in Dark Pheonix or Infinity War make a hole in spacetime which causing them to connect to the Xmen universe, and it pulling in the earth from that universe into the MCU, Which then they can keep the Xmen and the MCU. Which would been that scarlet witch would have her brother back, and quick silver would have an older sister, and just link it up that way.

I think we might get a few very limited appearances from Wade in the MCU. Something along the lines of 'His movies are Rated R, but his limited appearances outside of them are a little more tame.' So something like the X-men flooding out of the school to fight an attacking villain, Cyclops yelling to a random guy 'Hey, get back here!' the guy turns around, it's Deadpool, he flips off Scott, he keeps going.

The thing to remember about the X-Men is that when they first came out, they WERE new. Yes, there were VERY rare exceptions, Apocalypse, Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto a few decades before issue #1, but mutants were an unknown quantity until the X-Men showed up, like Big Foot. In the X-Men mythos, mutants _exploded_ in the UXM #1 era, and were basically unknown prior to that. So the same thing could apply to the movies, with a few older mutants, but most of the mutants showing up being relatively young, or having a reason to have just not been public. That said, I think it's probably best to keep two universes, an "X-Men universe" in which mutants are the only super-powered beings, and the MCU, in which a few popular mutants show up to be on the Avengers, but "the mutant problem" would not really be addressed, because really it wouldn't make a lot of sense in the world of the MCU. They can handle two universes. The FF should be in the MCU though.

Deadpool 3 will be deadpool walking around trying to figure out how him and the X-men ended up in the MCU as captain america follows him around saying "NO SWEARING"

X-Men could be introduced into the MCU with the idea that the Soviet Union experimented on people in the ‘50s and created mutants, who have since been hiding in Eastern Europe, something the groundwork is already laid out for. They could even be hiding from Hydra, and it would explain the whole “mutants are shunned” vibe, as the Avengers seem to be hated by the population of Eastern Europe in the current MCU. So I’d say that seems like the best way to introduce them.

Great job explaining this deal man! Because I was confused about all of this. 👌🏼

One solution for the Wolverine issue could be that they let Dafne Keen keep portraying Laura. The characters was just introduced in Logan so maybe they can work a way around to introduce her version of the MCU.

In all honesty you could use the Infinity Stones in order to bring the X-Men Universe into the MCU. It may sound crazy but take a page from the story mode of Marvel vs. Capcom infinite. What they did to combine the Capcom Universe in the Marvel Universe the reality Stone. With the reality Stone in Infinity War you could have a Time or reality vortex could Clash combine the two different realities into one new reality. Personally I think it would work very well and it's a good scapegoat method that would make sense within the realm of with the comics 😌 .

The introduction will happen after the last Infinity movie. It's the perfect opportunity to introduce mutants as something that was always there in a new version of the universe. The infinity gauntlet will be used to restore the universe but it will be a subtly different version of the former universe.

I'd leave it a couple of years so as to get the casting *just right* and then launch X-Men as a Netflix show. That would allow Wolverine to be colder and more violent than the movies allow, and would give all those rich characters a lot more breathing space than a two-hour movie can offer. It could be much more of an ensemble piece than the Fox movies were - give everyone their time to shine. I'd want to take some time to work out the best thing to do with the Fantastic Four. The one thing I'd establish immediately though would be Dr Doom. Get that man in the MCU stat! I love the idea of him turning Sokovia into Latveria, and there are so many existing MCU characters I'd like to see him cross paths with.

maybe Dr. Strange can either bring the FF and X-Men in to fight Thanos... or either he or Thanos can end up merging the 2 universes together

Marvel has already been incorporating multiverse and time travel elements. With the reality bending capabilities of a fully assembled infinity gauntlet the entire earth could be rewritten to incorporate mutants, fantastic four, whatever they wanted. Spiderman could wake up at the end of Avengers 4 and realize that the world was saved yet a bit different. The only difficulty would be saying goodbye to the mcu in its current form, but really its the characters that are compelling, not the place in which they live.

Whoever takes over for Bob Iger in 2019 is gonna need an acetaminophen drip

Here's a pitch idea for how the X-men get integrated. Charles Xavier worked at S.H.I.E.L.D. back in the day with Howard Stark, Hank Pym and Bill Foster. Back when mutants actually WERE becoming a more publicly known thing, he joined up with them so S.H.I.E.L.D. could help him protect the young mutants. He DOES want for humans and mutants to coexist, but he knew that society just wasn't ready yet. So with Stark, Pym and Foster's help, Cerebro was built. A way for Charles to track down mutants so they could be relocated to the School for Gifted Youngsters, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. safehouse granted by Stark. (Perhaps during Captain Marvel we could see some signs of a few more rebellious mutants trying to live Charles' dream.) After Infinity War and A4, Xavier deems that the world not only needs the X-men in the absence of half of the Avengers pre-A4, but is ready to accept mutants after all that has happened.

I think you are spot on! Although I see the argument for Fox having had the X-Men rights, I think they more or less have had their run. I'd like to see a Deadpool Trilogy, but I think its time for the rest of the X-Men to come to the MCU along with the F4.

Fox still owned distribution rights to 'A New Hope', are they in this deal? Can we now safeky assume we'll get full Star Wars sets?

My guess would be they keep DP as is and they will reboot the X-Men. They might make it as if mutants are a new thing in the mcg. The only problem would be Magneto's origin but that could be adapted to something newer instead of the second world war

my Xmen fan casting wolverine- Jon Bernthal magneto- Andrew Lincoln sabretooth- Norman Reedus rogue- Lauren Cohan angel - Steven Yeun storm- Danai Gurira juggernaut David Morrisey beast Chad L Coleman gambit- Channing Tatum bishop- Idris Elba cable- Josh Brolin apocalypse- Dwayne Johnson psylocke- Stef Chang cyclops- Dave Franco jean Emma Stone nightcrawler- Rami Malek ice man- Donald Glover omega red- Charlie Hunnam sinister- Josh Hartnett jubilee- Nicole Bloom mystique- Saoirse Ronan kitty pride- Hailee Steinfeld deadpool- Ryan Reynolds professorX- Ewan Mcgregor

Making mutants new especially doesn't allow Magneto's backstory of being a holocaust survivor, which is key to his entire motivation. Honestly, they don't need to do anything to "explain" mutants' absence from the franchise. There has only been one movie which has been broad enough to even beg the question - Infinity War. Individual character movies are just that - individual. Avengers and Age of Ultron are team movies, but are both explicitly tied to the Avengers team. Avengers was focused on bringing the team together, and - aside from the brief invasion by the aliens, which was too brief to attract any attention from those not in New York - didn't have anything to do with the public at large. Age of Ultron again was all internal to the Avengers. The X-Men wouldn't know that Stark invented an evil robot until he attacked the one city, which was on the opposite side of the world. Only Infinity War even remotely begs the question "where were you". Answering that question is actually super easy if you do it right. First, give them an isolated movie or two as you build both X-Men and the next generation of Avengers up. It should be a stark contrast between the two, with the Avengers movies showing them as beloved heroes, while the X-Men movies show just how feared and mistrusted they are. When they finally do meet up, it's the culmination of those two very divergent attitudes, with a story inspired by AvX, which pits the two teams against each other (at least temporarily).

Okay, so idea for their place in the MCU: ramification of a change in the universe made with the infinity gauntlet. Yes, this might fall into the "they're just appearing" method, but what if something were to happen via the infinity gauntlet that made it so that the mutants were always there? As for casting choices, Ralph Fiennes as Prof. X, just one idea.

I know this if the mcu xmen have a bunch avengers constantly in and out I will not be watching those movies.....if I pay to see xmen or new mutants/x force etc that's what I want to see.......I agree about fx I would hate for any acquisition by Disney to affect it negatively.

This idea of the X-Men being in the MCU secretly is crazy! A hidden X-Men in the MCU would make X-Men movies Fox produced seem worthless.

I want them to keep James McAvoy as professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto.i may fine with them recast the others. Hell yeah the x men should go back to marvel! ( despite all the worries people are having about this) . I mean think about it; They would have been there all along if it wasn't for some unfortunate times marvel was going through. It's about time, they start getting back the rights to all their properties. And if Feige is as smart as he showed us to be, he'll know exactly what to do, and when to do it.

Praise Emperor Mouse The Binder of Worlds...Fun isn't something one considers when the cinematic universe, but this dose put a smile on my face...haha

What I'd kinda like to see, and granted I'm not sure if they'd feel they could pull this off with the general public, is to make it clear that Deadpool exists in its own universe where things from MCU will show up but have no influence over continuity. I'd basically be a one-way door continuity-wise but it would be challenging to market, especially if they were going to do for example a Spiderman/Deadpool crossover of some kind (perhaps somewhat in line with Thor: Ragnarok). Another idea which was floated around with Deadpool was first announced (and the R-rating was uncertain) could be that Deadpool literally gets censored whenever he appears in any PG-13 MCU films, or at least in the very first one-beyond that they could just have him come up with creative ways of working around that (ALA Wolverine in the X-Men Animated Series, only more self-ware. :p).

I never liked the idea of the X-Men hiding mutants. That goes against their core belief of co-existence and being who you are.

As far as the X-men go you can always reference the terrigen mist. It basically killed off a lot of mutants which give a tie in with inhumans and X-men and mutants in general.

Not to mention all the distrobution rights to Star Wars. Fox still holds the rights to at least episode IVand that keeps Disney from releasing their own boxset, or an unalterated original version for each film.

Great detailed explanation. Concerning the transition, baby Franklin Richards, Scarlet Witch and Legion could 'easily' make their three worlds collide... Maybe add Jean Grey and an infinity gauntlet for good measure. I'd love a Time Runs Out crossover but lol.

Remember disney did put deadpool in a spiderman cartoon

IM TOO ECCITED ABOUT THIS... FINALLY THEY'RE HOME! I want them to just start fresh with the original 5 xmen. Cyclops, beast, iceman, jean, and angel... but do it the right way. Simolar to the way they rebooted Spidey. Reintroduce magneto and other villains like juggernaut- not as a mutant but with his original story line as professor x stepbrother. Give us a real xmen origin story. I like the idea that they've been around but just kept secrete for the most part and only Nick Furry knows about them. What made xmen unique was not just that they had powers but that they were actually mutations that often made them look weird. They would have to modify scarlet witch powers and make the truely hex portability powers instead of tekechenetic or mental in nature but whatever they do I'm sure that Fiegie and the Marvel crew have already mapped it out.

With this they can finally explain the "inhumans" as what they are like scarlet and quicksilver. I really hope disney doesn't screw this up because x-men has SO much potential with this and it could be a masssive amount of money in disney's pocket.

Fox has ups and downs, but they have a level of creative risk that Disney/Marvel doesn't. Deadpool, Logan, those wouldn't have happened. I hope they keep Fox as a separate studio. Not everything needs to tie together.

I think the best shot is using the mutiverde story line. Then we can keep x men an mcu separate universes but find ways for not to interact with each other

I think X-men should continue the Deadpool route and have it all centered around that. Let him be basically the new wolverine

I'm hoping to get a Howling commandos movie out of this with Cap and Wolverine teaming up.

You can just have other marvel characters appear in deadpool movies and not vice versa. Think about it.

Disney needs to buy all of Fox assets. I want X-Men, Deadpool and the fantastic four in the Disney MCU

They cant lose the Fox Logo at the beginning of films because if I don't hear that fanfare, I aint goin.

This will also be huge for Disneys new streaming service coming out if they not only have Disney, Marvel and Star Wars but Fox properties up there as well

This is such a bummer- the only comic book movie I was looking foward to was Drew Goddard's X-Force. That guy keeps getting screwed over. For a guy with so much talent (he even made Ridley Scott look good with The Martian), he has so much bad luck.

I know the big news is, 'hurray, Wolverine can hang out with the Avengers' but do you think that the two DC properties currently on FOX (Lucifer and Gotham) have any future, at all?

This could Mean The X-Men and Fantastic Four could Return to the MCU that means All of the Characters could Unite Again

'X-men is a bit of a different beast.' Yes. It's blue, hairy and has hand-feet.

If there is a Deadpool III movie, it will be a Netflix exclusive. Thus keeping the character seperate from MCU.

Yes yes yes #JusticeForCyclops We need a movie that is focused on the TEAM that is lead by Cyclops and Professor X. Save Wolverine and Magneto till the 2020s so people start to miss them.

Agents of SHIELD has Inhumans. The Inhumans in that show are basically mutants. You make it that some of the powered people you thought were Inhumans were actually mutants. The Xavier in the comics was a military man and not this pacifist that they made him in the movies that don't like violence. He made the X-men as a paramilitary group. That's the different direction you go into.

Big corporate mergers are usually never a good thing, for anybody, but in this case.... Yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't care! DO IT! The possibility of finally seeing a good Fantastic Four movie and having *MOTHERFUCKING DOCTOR DOOM* in the MCU makes me jizz in my pants!

While I agree with you that the Disney company does release R-rated material, it's important to point out that NONE of the Marvel Netflix projects would be considered "R-rated", except potentially for excessive vulgar language. The material in them is strictly PG-13, violent but not overly gorey, sex scenes but no actual nudity, any of those series could have been run on network TV in a 9-10PM timeslot without editing (outside of some bleeps). None of them were HBO-edgy, much less Stars-edgy.

If they use the mutants as one or Fury's secrets, make their introduction to the general population be through the SHIELD docs that Black Widow publicized in CA:TWS.

Disney will also get the FX network, The National Geographic network, a 30% stake in Hulu, and a 39% stake of the Sky network in the UK.

I know this would probably be a stupid thing to do, but considering they're Disney...WHEN IS MICKEY MOUSE JOINING THE AVENGERS?!

You will never see the x-men in the current MCU, but you might see x-men characters.

What if they build a new X-Men/Fantastic Four Universe from the ground up alongside the post Infinity War MCU with a clear intention of bringing them together. Give them each a few more years to grow and, in the next climactic film of Secret Wars, bring everything together somehow. Maybe this concept is too out there for the general public to get behind, but it would also allow them to work on other, more out there projects to test the waters. They could set some more obscure stories in a stand alone universe so that it doesn't have to conform to the current MCU or XCU. The intention of that would be to eventually bring everything together in battleworld style and let everything that "worked" stay in a merged universe going forward. Whatever the case I just hope they do it in a creatively believable way and don't just shove them in.

With regards to the main X-Men franchise - either 1. keep it separate from the MCU; 1.1 The best character in the current X-Men - Quicksilver - is dead in the MCU. 2.2 In the same universe where there is a Pyro and a Torch, a Storm and a Thor etc it's hard to explain to the GA that don't read comics why mutants are hated whilst heroes are not and, heck, the people living in the Universe should not even be able to tell them apart and know who is a mutant and who is not barring a lab test expose. or 2. reboot completely; 2.1 Jackman is out anyway so what better time to start fresh - continuing on with X-23 and the kids loses them a tonne of story arcs right of the bat. 2.2 Fox screwed a tonne of core characters (e.g. Cyclops, Iceman) that Marvel regard highly and elevated some (e.g. Mystique) way higher than they ever should have been. Marvel will likely want a redo.

What if they use The New Mutants (which was pushed back to 2019) to sort of reshoot it and edit out any kind of reference to the mainline X-Men universe and essentially soft reboot the franchise without having to recast the cast of The New Mutants? And they establish that Mutants have been around for a long time and been in hiding, but are just now being revealed, hence the title The New Mutants.

I think what they should do with Deadpool is they should include him in the MCU just keep his standalone movies rated R but tone him down for his team-up movie appearances. He can still have crude humor, just have it be more indirect. Also it sucks about Gambit, he's my favorite X-Men.

If Disney is successful in getting Fox, hopefully they will scrap the joke of a movie where the FF will be done as Children. If Disney gets FF one can only hope they bring back the Original Actors.

If or should I say when they integrate the X-Men into the MCU I would like them to start with the original 5 from the comics (Scott Summers/Cyclops, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Bobby Drake/Iceman, Warren Worthington III/Angel and Hank McCoy/Beast) because in the Fox movies some of these characters like Bobby and Warren were just used as plot devices which annoyed me as they're amazing in the comics. Also I just want the F4 to be done well

I heard that Dark Phoenix will be the end of the current X-men universe then they will release a reboot, New Mutants will be an mcu film and Deadpool will remain Deadpool

Marvel can make WAY more money doing their own X-Men movies well instead of continuing the crappy Fox series.

It will probably be like the Spider-Man situation. They will probably reboot the main X-Men films after Dark Phoenix but the planned spin-offs will go on separated from the MCU. Just like with Sony’s Spider-verse.

There’s no way they cancel Dark Phoenix. Too much money will be lost.

Still worried about Deadpool. I hope Disney would keep Deadpool a separate universe. Probably not under Marvel Studios.

Patrick Stewart already said goodbye to the role after Logan. James McAvoy is now Xavier. I hope he stays that way.

Oh, I am ready to bet that Feige has plans laying around for all those characters, just in case. That's why Homecoming happened that fast. But there are a number of things to consider...for example, I am not sure how much of the Fantastic 4 rights are still with Constantin Film. Plus, even if the deal goes through, it will take some time to transfer everything and reorganise the structure so that it fits into Disney. I hope that they just put the X-men into their own parallel universe which look distinctively different from the MCU.

If you honestly think Disney's "main goal was undoubtedly the X-men and Fantastic Four franchises" then you haven't been paying much attention. The main goal was acquiring a massive amount of new content for the streaming service they want to launch in 2019. Getting those rights back for Marvel is great but it was far from the primary focus. I would even wager that getting the distribution rights for the original Star Wars trilogy was just as important. Something else you didn't mention is the fact that the deal would result in Disney having controlling interest in Hulu. I think that is likely the most interesting news that comes out of this deal because that could well mean that there is no new Disney streaming service in 2019. Why launch a new one when they take control of Hulu and and just leverage that and its existing user base? It is also highly unlikely that Marvel will do anything with FF or X-men until at least 2020. There's just really nothing in 2019 they can move at this point and whatever they are going to do pretty much has to be after Avengers 4. The Spider-man Homecoming sequel is supposed to lead off phase 4 and I don't see that changing because of the existing deal with Sony.

If think the best way is to create Marvel Max and maintain Marvel Studios. And heroes moves from one from another, just like in comics.

I hope that we get two deadpools, one for the MCU and one for standalone movies and shows

I just hope someday, Nickleodeon buys the final three seasons of Doug from Disney.

I think they should have the first X-Men movie be the original teen cast of the X-Men, and then in the sequel introduxe Storm, Wolverine, Colossus & Nightcrawler

This deal has more to do with Online Streaming ... Fox owns Hulu and we all know that Disney has been wanting to pull their content from Netflix and have them exclusive. Because Hulu already has streaming rights to multiple film and network franchises, Disney now gets to profit exclusively from this... The Marvel and Star Wars distribution is just icing with sprinkles on the cake... Along with all of the other Movie rights that Disney will now own..

I'm never getting the Gambit movie, am i ? T_T

Deadpool could be great in PG13. The GOTG franchise is full of sex jokes and foul language and yet it is considered family. Deadpool doesn't need sex and f-bombs to be great. I see it working great under Disney. The interactions would be awesome. Spideypool anyone ?

My guess is FOX Broadcasting and its related networks not sold to to Disney/ABC might get sold piece by piece to either TimeWarner or Viacom.

If the new Disney X-men goes well, I CANT WANT FOR A VS X

It would be cool if he was trying to keep them a secret, and then they take in wolverine and that brings weapon x to the school which starts up mutants being in the public eye

FX is part of the agreement, dude.

I think that even though this is good on them for getting their properties back but bad from the perspective of competition

Mystique, Rogue, and Storm should be recast. Anna Paquin and Halle Berry do not fit the characters and never will. Jennifer Lawrence does not like the role of Mystique because she hates the makeup. Give someone else the role.

Well family Guy will probably go back to it's original funny and heart warming state

Introduce the Xmen as the origina team and introduce Wolverine in wolverine vs hulk movie

The shows on FX will probably all go on Hulu. Disney now controls the majority of Hulu, and I think while they create their own streaming service for families they are going to be gearing Hulu towards adults. Remember in your video about Disney starting a streaming service you said your a fan of Disney but you need more than that. Well I think that what Hulu will be for. They may package to two streaming services together.

Regarding Deadpool why let him be R-Rated in his own movies And when he shows up in a pg-13 marcel movie they can just beep him. Something like when he shows up in a PG13 marvel movie the watcher aka Stan Lee shows up and tells him he can't cuss here in this movie 4th wall wallbreak style. Could be fun

Not gonna lie, but happy to hear that Marvel’s probably getting their properties back . But for now wouldn’t get too excited for it in case the deal doesn’t fall through. We’ll see if it happens or not. In any case I’m okay with both scenarios either Disney or any other company sealing the deal. At the end of the day , Fox is definitely selling it to someone.