The Disney/Fox merger came to a close much sooner than anyone anticipated, and many fans were hoping that Marvel Studios may have shot something either before or since then that can now be included in
Avengers: Endgame to tease the arrival of the X-Men and Fantastic Four.
Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like that's even crossed the minds of directors Joe and Anthony Russo and, like Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, they're in no rush to cram the heroes in.
"It would not have been," Joe confirmed when asked it was ever going to be possible to film scenes including the characters. "That deal didn't actually officially close until a week and a half ago. It would not have been logistically possible."
"We will get there," Anthony added before Joe chimed in with, "We'll get to Secret Wars one day."
The filmmakers haven't been shy about their desire to adapt a storyline they grew up loving and while Feige more than likely has his own ideas for where to take things, it sounds like both he and Disney would love to bring the Russo Brothers back to the MCU by granting them the opportunity to tell this story.
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Emperor Doom
Doctor Doom may rule over the fictional nation of Latveria but the villain has frequently set his sights a little further afield and attempted to gain total world domination. One such example came in the Emperor Doom storyline which saw Victor Von Doom make use of Purple Man's powers to finally succeed in taking over the world, something Earth's Mightiest Heroes obviously couldn't stand for.
Marvel could use a movie like this to bring The Avengers and Fantastic Four together but I think it's unlikely we'd see the return of David Tennant's Purple Man from the Netflix side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Regardless, a tale like this has a lot of potential and would establish Doom as a force to be reckoned with in this shared world while pairing these two teams up for the first time.