Marvel Movie Rights and Future Marvel Movies

When does Marvel regain the movie rights to the X-men and Spiderman? The best Marvel movies have been made by Marvel Studios.

X-men First Class was the best non-Marvel Studios movie. Michael Fassbender and James MCAvoy are excellent actors. I could watch an entire movie of Magneto going Nazi hunting!

I want to see more cameos from other characters to add continuity. Even if its only a mention. A picture of Thing on a monitor behind Tony Stark. Courtroom scene with Matt Murdock.

Can you imagine what it would be like if Marvel still had those movie rights?

I couldn't agree more..
When marvel do a film they do it BIG and BADA** and they are always awesome..
But continuity of the films would be good i.e have wolverine as a camo in captain america (during WW2)

There must be some law genius that can find a loop hole in the contracts so marvel can get the films back!!
But good question when do they get the rights back ??

Honestly, I'm not sure if they want the rights back at the moment. I'm sure if they did, they'd find a way. But obviously they're focusing on The Avengers, so they leave the other characters to other studios. A few cameos wouldn't be worth all of the money they'd spend buying the rights back. But I definitely agree, it'd be cool to see more characters added to their universe!

It would have been cool to see Hugh Jackman in Captain America!

I believe the contracts were written up so that they have to make a movie every few years or the rights revert back to marvel. Thats why the Amazing Spiderman is comming out, Xmen first Class was made, and Fantastic Four and Daredevil are currently in works to be re-booted.

I wish the rights would revert too so they could have Beast as an Avenger, a Defenders Movie or even something like a Secret War epic movie.

The BDK said:

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I believe the contracts were written up so that they have to make a movie every few years or the rights revert back to marvel. Thats why the Amazing Spiderman is comming out, Xmen first Class was made, and Fantastic Four and Daredevil are currently in works to be re-booted.

I think that's standard practice for anybody that holds a license to an IP, they have to do something with the IP every so many years otherwise they lose their license/copyright.

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Really hoping Marvel and Fox Studios will start collaborating to allow more crossovers.

It shouldn't even come down to rights. Just do some quid pro quo. Marvel allows Fox to use IM or Hulk or someone in a spiderman movie and Fox lets spidey appear in the Avengers. Cross promotional win win for everyone. That's probably too easy a solution though.

...at this point, I think I'm glad that X-Men and Spidey are outside of the Marvel Movie Universe. It could become a little too crowded in those movies if they were to keep adding and adding characters.

I'm sure we'll see a few more Marvel heroes added here and there, but I think keeping some of the larger franchises separate might be the best for now.

rodneyfaile said:

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It would have been cool to see Hugh Jackman in Captain America!

I'd rather see a new Wolverine. A shorter, hairier, growlier one.

Pretty interesting read here from Wired, an interview with Kevin Feige. This issue gets addressed slightly

The cartoon series from the 90's handled this fairly well. Remembering the Spiderman Animated series I used to love it when they had the different guest spots every so often. They had everybody ranging from Captain America, Wolverine, Punisher, Fantastic Four, X-men, Iron Man, Blade, etc.

The story Arcs were well done and they flowed well together. Hell, even spiderman showed up in an X-men story IIRC. Point is they worked and worked well, something i wish the studios would reference. Like cboath said if they worked together it'd be mutually beneficial.

Punisher & Blade have reverted back to Marvel.

another question how come stan lee still does the camo roles in the spiderman films if marvels don't have the rights ? Just confused me

I think that is more of a courtesy

ahh thats what I thought

Cookiee Monsta said:

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Punisher & Blade have reverted back to Marvel.

Excellent!

Can someone write a fan fiction where Blade kills everyone in Twillight and True Blood?

Off to a good start here!

The BDK said:

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I believe the contracts were written up so that they have to make a movie every few years or the rights revert back to marvel. Thats why the Amazing Spiderman is comming out, Xmen first Class was made, and Fantastic Four and Daredevil are currently in works to be re-booted.

I wish the rights would revert too so they could have Beast as an Avenger, a Defenders Movie or even something like a Secret War epic movie.

A Secret Wars movie would have to be a trilogy of it's own just for the sheer number of characters and the storyline.

Cookiee Monsta said:

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Punisher & Blade have reverted back to Marvel.

Hopefully that means a new Blade movie when he gets out of jail...

isn't snipes out of jail, thought he was released 2 years ago as he did Game of death

i'm probably wrong lol

Sluis Van Shipyards said:

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Hopefully that means a new Blade movie when he gets out of jail...

Wesleys version of Blade differed to what was in the comics thanks to Goyer. If Marvel does another Blade movie no doubt it'll be with another actor, different look & origin story.

Sluis Van Shipyards said:

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Hopefully that means a new Blade movie when he gets out of jail...

Probably go with another younger actor.

Chris27989 said:

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another question how come stan lee still does the camo roles in the spiderman films if marvels don't have the rights ? Just confused me

Stan Lee is a character, to be sure, but he's not a Marvel Comics character; they don't own him. Unless his contract with Marvel forbids it (which doesn't appear to be the case), he's free to appear in whatever movies, television shows, advertising, etc., he chooses. Besides, he's so closely identified with Marvel Comics that they probably consider it free publicity.

Cookiee Monsta said:

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Punisher & Blade have reverted back to Marvel.

No more please.

Especially Punisher. There's been what? 4 of those. They all sucked.

It just doesn't make it as a movie.