Current Events > How likely is it that Marvel already have the Fantastic 4 rights...

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...and they're just waiting for the right time to officially announce it?
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They could do the same thing they did with Spider-Man.

Announce a deal they made with Fox on the future of Fantastic 4, then shoehorn them into a scene for Black Panther which is two months away.
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They'd most likely wait for after Infinity Wars to announce it
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iPhone_7 posted...

They could do the same thing they did with Spider-Man.

Announce a deal they made with Fox on the future of Fantastic 4, then shoehorn them into a scene for Black Panther which is two months away.

I mean they got the Skrulls as the villains in the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. Something lots of people was shocked by because one would figure that the Skrulls would be part of the same package as the Fantastic Four. The characters that they're most associated with.

I want to see the Skrulls as a huge hint.
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wouldn't it be funny if they had the rights all along but the legal team made some dopey mistake when reading over the contracts?
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Kitt posted...

iPhone_7 posted...

They could do the same thing they did with Spider-Man.

Announce a deal they made with Fox on the future of Fantastic 4, then shoehorn them into a scene for Black Panther which is two months away.

I mean they got the Skrulls as the villains in the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. Something lots of people was shocked by because one would figure that the Skrulls would be part of the same package as the Fantastic Four. The characters that they're most associated with.

I want to see the Skrulls as a huge hint.

general use of Skrulls has always been under Marvel's umbrella, but the use of the character Super Skrull, specifically the Fantastic Four villain, is with Fox.

They had originally planned Skrulls to be the generic mooks in Avengers 1 but didn't want to waste their first appearance like that.
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At this point, I'm not particularly excited. Granted, I never really read their comics. But they're like the godfathers (and godmother) of modern Marvel heroes. Like, the first Spider-Man issue had him attempting to join the Fantastic Four. Seeing them created after everyone else has already had a movie -- after the Thanos arch has been wrapped up -- seems rather pointless.

It'd be like if there was a major collective cinematic universe based off of Nintendo and third party video game protagonists and Pac-Man showed up after Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Bayonetta, Ryu and Ken, Kirby, Simon Belmont, Bimmy and Jimmy, Dirk the Daring, Pitfall Harry, Q*Bert, Crash Bandicoot, Wreck-It Ralph, and even Captain N had already had their films. Like, what's the point when you're so late to the party?

It's like entering a time paradox in which Marvel's comic book grandfather became Marvel's cinematic grandson.