I really, really, really, REALLY want this to happen. The X-Men and the Fantastic 4 need to return home.
CNBC: 21st Century Fox holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney
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There is literally zero chance that Disney doesn't put X-Men in the MCU if they buy Fox.
I'm sure of it, I just think that they would need to set it up across a bunch of post-credits scenes first.
It finished filming a few weeks back but I honestly, if Disney buys Fox before the end of the year, I could actually see them shelving the whole damn thing so that they can give X-Men movies a breather before rebooting in the MCU.
90% of what I just said in this post is actually just my personal hope.
Because fuck that.
Anyway, with the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, the MCU is basically set for another 10+ years.
Star Wars fans need to move on because it's never gonna happen.
Yes, I mean, Deadpool 2 will probably still get released, as well as New Mutants since that movie's already finished, but Dark Phoenix I'm not sure about.
Okay, let's say that Disney buys Fox. What happens to Ryan Reynolds? Do they recast Deadpool? Do they just continue the current Deadpool movie series? Do they reboot but keep Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, maybe making jokes about Deadpool jumping from one continuity to another?
I can't see them incorporating Deadpool 1 and 2 in the MCU, the School for Gifted Youngsters is already established and seemingly publicly known in the first movie.
I can't see them incorporating Deadpool 1 and 2 in the MCU, the School for Gifted Youngsters is already established and seemingly publicly known in the first movie.
They do but I don't think any others are being filmed currently. If this deal happens by the end of the year, I could see them simply being canceled.
The only part of the X-Men franchise that would be a true issue in terms of, "What do we do with this?" is Deadpool. That will be interesting to see.
Still rated R, still Deadpool, still same timeline, only single character aware of the whole craziness and people still think he's bonkers. I can easily see Deadpool working in the MCU, hell the first one seems more like a rated R MCU film than anything Fox has ever pulled off.
In Deadpool? With Cable, Colossus and everyone else? Hell, they ARE the X-Men as far as I'm concerned. I don't see the rest of the Fox films as part of Deadpool's timeline or even something that belongs in the MCU. Now everything about Deadpool and everyone else introduced there? It just fits. Colossus and Negasonic can navigate between Rated R and PG-13 films, same as Deadpool: hard R solo films, team ups with the rest of the MCU as PG-13. Marvel Studios loves Deadpool as much as anyone that loves great superhero films. He doesn't need to be changed. He and the characters around him are perfect as/is.
If they decided to keep Reynolds, the only real option would be to do some wacky plot with Deadpool moving into the MCU universe with some multiverse story shenanigans.
Which could of course be fun in its own right. But I do think they would end up toning down the language and nudity in an MCU Deadpool, even if R-rated.
Which could of course be fun in its own right. But I do think they would end up toning down the language and nudity in an MCU Deadpool, even if R-rated.
Also, while honestly I wouldn't mind the X-men remaining separate there have been versions where the initial teams were actually covert and out of public knowledge until the age of heroes(basically when a couple dozen active superheroes were a regular thing, they no longer felt a need to hide on that point)
They could still potentially incorporate most of those into the MCU. X-23 is the big question there.
I can't really see them hiding themselves when even freakin' Spider-Man is joining the fight against Thanos.
Deadpool's first film's third act happened in a freaking helicarrier. It's heavily implied in that film itself that this is a place where the rest of the MCU could inhabitate. I don't see them toning down his language in his own films. If anything, they'd go even harder on it, to prove the point that still is Deadpool. I don't see Deadpool getting his solos ateared at all. I expect beeps and crazy situations happening in other films though. The MCU will have a field day with him being officially part of the universe.
Kevin Feige on Deadpool last year:
Source: https://screenrant.com/kevin-feige-deadpool-marvel-success/
Even if Disney does buy part of Fox, and even if the deal is made before the year ends, it won't close for a long time still, and until that point Fox would continue to run as an independent enterprise.
I'll be blunt: no matter who is working on what, I don't want Doom or Multiple Man happening.
Doom especially is completely ridiculous. A solo Doom movie before they can even get a good Fantastic Four movie is just silly.
Doom especially is completely ridiculous. A solo Doom movie before they can even get a good Fantastic Four movie is just silly.
That was just a fun Easter egg. At absolutely no point in the film was it "heavily implied" that it was a place that could eventually become the MCU.
I really hope it doesn't happen.
They need to let them go with what is announced imho.
Close your eyes. Think that that place is the MCU. Why Deadpool's world looks any different than the MCU? Hell, if we get the deal done by the end of the year, Deadpool could address that in his film already. My point is that there's nothing about Deadpool that makes that place more like the Singerverse. If anything, it looks more like a rated R take in the MCU. I could completely buy that, and I'm hardcore with knowledge about this stuff. Casuals would buy it just as easily.
Actually, there's a lot of reasons, Shia'ar, Mojoverse, heck arcade trapped them in a pocket dimension. There are tons of X-men stories with the team getting trapped, teleported or generally occupied during events.
It doesn't matter what we can imagine.
If Disney buys Fox, they are rebooting X-Men. It's that simple.
The X-Men? Hell yes. Deadpool though? I don't see why they can't just keep going with him. Period. Feige is clever and knows an asset when he sees one. I'd be willing to bet on that: Deadpool, Domino, Negasonic and Cable will stay as is. The only character that I can see Marvel Studios tweaking is Colossus, and even that is a longshot. $10 for whatever charity you want. Deal?
Yep.
The mainline X-films have had a ton of issues, but the recent spinoffs (Logan, Deadpool, Legion) have all turned out really well. Losing X-force, Laura's film, and Hawley's Doom is going to be really disappointing.
We'd be in an interesting position with Deadpool. With everyone else that Marvel Studios has acquired, it had been a while since the character's last decent film adaptation, or previous adaptions may have been straight-up crap. Even in Spidey's case, Amazing Spider-Man 2 pretty killed any goodwill that the first Amazing Spider-Man had accrued. Deadpool, though? There's already an actor perfecting the part in an on-going film series. I dunno, I can't see Feige taking the character away from Reynolds, especially with how hard he campaigned to get that film made.
If this goes through I think they'll just wait later to reboot Deadpool a little while after they reboot the X-Men. If the deal happens ASAP, I'd expect Dark Phoenix to be the last X-Men movie before it gets rebooted into the MCU but for Deadpool they'll keeping going with a Deadpool 3 and then wait a couple of years after that to bring him in.
If Dark Phoenix ends up being a two part, the second one is going to be scrapped most probably.
Hoping for the best.
I could see the solo Doctor Doom movie & maybe X-Force being carried over if the deal happens.
If you are basing this on Wikipedia, it also doesn't list Fox as a producer on the X-Men films (including Deadpool). The credited producers are linked to Fox, though.
I don't think being listed as a production company on Wikipedia is indicative. As you point out yourself, Marvel is listed as a production company for the FF and X-Men films, but evidence points out that Fox has a greater role in the production.
Finally, we have Marvel and James Gunn themselves stating in interviews that Fox is the one that allowed them to use Ego, a FF character, in Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
What's the point of having Fantastic Four and the X-Men if we don't have Namor, the missing link between the two franchises?
My personal fan canon is that Deadpool and Logan take place in the real world or MCU and that the other movies are just films done in that world. Hence the X-men comics in Logan and Deadpool asking which actor is playing Prof X. I know he's crazy but I like this.
If the Murdoch owned WSJ is reporting on this, then this is a really good sign this is happening.
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