Several years ago, Marvel Studios decided to sell most of their film rights to other companies such as Fox, Sony, Universal, and even companies like Syfy, who brought you the infamous ManThing film. But after hits such as X-Men, Spiderman, and Blade were released, Marvel Studios began getting the rights back to all of their characters. However, some companies wouldn't dare give back the rights due to the money people will pay to see they're heroes on the silver screen. If Fox doesn't begin production on a Daredevil reboot REAL soon, the movie rights revert back to Marvel Studios. Fox is also working on a Fantastic Four reboot in order to keep the rights to that franchise. Marvel made a offer with Fox, that if they give Marvel Silver Surfer and Galactus, they will give them more time to do Daredevil. Fox, however refused. I am not a big fan of the refusal. And I will explain why as I give the reasons why the rights to Fantastic Four should revert back to Marvel, as well as my opinion on what should happen with Daredevil.
DR. DOOM:
The first reason Marvel Studios should own Fantastic Four is because of Dr. Doom. What all three of the past Fantastic Four movies (counting the 1994 unreleased film which can be viewed at this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C93GxNVDog8&feature=youtube_gdata_player) failed to do was do Dr. Doom justice (no pun intended). In the comics, Dr. Doom, was a powerful monarch with high intelligence and was a dangerous man who wore a metal suit as armor and also to hide his scars. In the movies (mainly the 2005-2007 dualogy) he wears the suit for no apparent reason and it seems like a coincidence that the suit could deflect bullets in the 2005 film and in both of them, as well as the 1994 film, he is taken down very easily by the FF. Doom has the potential to be a great on screen villain, and a perfect villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I would love to see him go against The Avengers on film.
SILVER SURFER:
The second reason is because of the Silver Surfer. When I first read about Marvel Studios' offer to Fox, my mood was "Yes!" When I read about Fox's denial, my mood was "D**mit." Partly because (I'll explain more in the next reason, THE GENRE OF THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE) Silver Surfer is his OWN superhero. I don't know why Fox feels the need to constantly include him in FF movies. And I'm pretty sure they're planning on including him in future sequels of their FF reboot that they are attempting to produce because of their denial. Silver Surfer needs a stand alone movie. Plus, I really don't want Fox to ruin Galactus again. If you thought Parallax sucked in last years Green Lantern film, you should see Galactus in FF: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Galactus, in my opinion, needs to be done by people who are good at making films, because it is hard to do a giant planet eating man in a purple hat, but Marvel Studios knows how to adapt their movies.
THE GENRE OF THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE:
Fantastic Four fits the Marvel Cinematic Universe almost perfectly. With Dr. Doom as a villain, themes of space and cosmic energies, in the comics, The Thing is Hulk-sized and if I am not mistaken, the Fantastic Four joins the Avengers in the comics (Thing and Hulk. Perfect fight right there. Also a perfect team-up), Reed Richards as a scientist (he could work on science related things with Ant-Man, and other scientists. Invent things with Stark. Work for SHEILD. ETC.). So many possibilities. And a Marvel Studios Silver Surfer film would be the next best thing. Not only does does it have space and all the cosmic elements of the story, but Galactus. Another perfect villain for The Avengers to face. And, we would finally see the Surfer in his own stand alone movie (by stand alone, I mean its HIS movie, not someone else's, such as the Fantastic Four's. If its by Marvel Studios, of course its in the MCU).
TOO MANY 2014 MARVEL FILMS:
If Fox has their way, then Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and Ant-Man all are released in 2014. If either the rights to FF or DD revert back to Marvel, it will reduce the amount of films of that year. I, personally, hope Avengers 2 is released in 2016, and Ant-Man is delayed to 2015 (or release them both in 2015) because that's, in my opinion, too many for one year. I don't know how I would keep up with ALL of them.
SHOULD DAREDEVIL GO BACK TO MARVEL STUDIOS?
I, personally, hope Daredevil's film rights stay at Fox, because I would like to see a darker, grittyer, possibly even rated R version of Daredevil, and I doubt Marvel Studios would do that. I mean, my favorite Marvel hero is The Punisher, an antihero, and now that his rights are back at Marvel Studios, I doubt we'll be seeing him in film again anytime soon, and if we do, its probably going to be PG-13 which, in my opinion, would suck for a Punisher film. If the Daredevil rights go back to Marvel, we probably won't see him in a while either. I personally think it would be cool if there was a Marvel Knights side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe where the darker, lesser known heroes would be at, and not necessarily lead up to the next Avengers film, kind of like what other Studios did with Punisher: War Zone and Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, but that is unlikely to happen.