Stan Lee Is Confident Marvel Studios Is Working On Regaining The X-MEN And FANTASTIC FOUR Rights

Stan Lee Is Confident Marvel Studios Is Working On Regaining The X-MEN And FANTASTIC FOUR Rights

Could the Fantastic Four and X-Men meet The Avengers in a movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? In a new interview, creator Stan Lee reveals that he believes the rights could be heading home...

By JoshWilding - Sep 14, 2017 01:09 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
When Marvel Entertainment faced bankruptcy in the '90s, they were forced to sell the film rights to many of their most iconic superheroes. They've since regained some of them but the X-Men and Fantastic Four remain off limits to them. 20th Century Fox own both franchises and while Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has said in the past that they could enter the MCU, it seems unlikely.

Well, not according to Stan Lee! During a recent appearance at Wizard World Nashville, the comic book creator revealed that he believes Marvel is currently working on regaining the rights to those. 

"Sooner or later, they’re going to get the rights back to all our characters," Lee promises. "They’re working on it, and they’re still making X-Men movies and stuff. Don’t worry about it. You’ll get more Marvel superheroes than you’ll have time to look at in the next few years." It's important to not that Lee has no involvement in Marvel's day to day operations so this is probably just speculation. 

The lines have blurred in recent years, though, with Marvel using characters like the Skrulls and Ego the Living Planet and Deadpool featuring a Helicarrier. Whether or not we'll ever see the X-Men and Fantastic Four standing alongside the Avengers remains to be seen but stranger things have happened.
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NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 9/14/2017, 1:22 AM
Kurne
Kurne - 9/14/2017, 1:31 AM
Please don't repeat the Marvel "doesn't have balls to do Logan or R-rated movies" thing, not again. The second MCU and X-Men are points in an article everybody gets so hot and bothered over it. Even if the rights aren't the topic.
Origame
Origame - 9/14/2017, 3:03 AM
@Kurne - It's not that they don't have it in them. It's Disney. That's just not what they do.
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 9/14/2017, 3:55 AM
@Kurne - while I will state tha Disney would realise movies like deadpool or Logan, simply because that isn't the type of films they release. They are a family company.
My concern if the X-men return (which I highly doubt) is that we simple will likely never get to explore "secondary" characters like Deadpool.
I feel the max number of films the MCU would put out is 4 films a year. Given the sheer number of properties (spiderman, Thor, cap, etc) I would propose they would release an X-men film every 3 years. They are not going to focus on "secondary characters" they will focus on the main team (cyclops, Jean etc). So we would neve get to explore other characters outside small roles in those xmen films.
Also, I honestly don't think the xmen need to interact with avengers. Spiderman and I say even say F4 do feel like they need the avengers. However outside "fan moments" (wolverine vs Hulk, avengers vs xmen ) I feel the X-men function sufficiently in their own universe,
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