Could Marvel Be Negotiating With Fox About A WOLVERINE/MCU Crossover?
Yes, you read that title right. Kevin Feige & Marvel Studios may be planning something very big in the upcoming months with Twentieth Century Fox. Something that we never thought would happen may come to a reality... Wolverine in the MCU. Hit the jump to find out why!
By TChalla -
Mar 11, 2015 07:03 AM EST
Let’s get straight to the point, Twentieth Century Fox is arguably doing a great job with keeping the X-Men franchise relevant to CBM fans and the general audience. While it’s still a wait and see with their other Marvel franchise (Fantastic Four), recent promotional material have fans interested to see the film. Fox just went through the process of recasting most of the main X-Men characters with younger actors thanks to X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past. This allows Fox to continue and expand on the story of the X-Men. It could even lead to the all but confirmed Fantastic Four and X-Men crossover film! More on that later, but for now, let’s take a look at Fox’s upcoming Marvel slate:
- Fantastic Four (August 7, 2015)
- Deadpool (February 12, 2016)
- X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27, 2016)
- Gambit (October 7, 2016)
- Wolverine 3 (March 3, 2017)
- Fantastic Four 2 (June 2, 2017)
- Mystery Marvel Film (July 13, 2018)
Wow, look at that list! Amazing isn’t it? Just imagine the last “mystery” film actually being the talked about X-Men/Fantastic Four Crossover! The story being based on the X-Men V.S Fantastic Four Miniseries comic or something fresh for the modern day! Knowing Simon Kinberg (the Kevin Feige of Fox’s MCU) we’re sure to get something great!
So why would Fox’s MCU and Marvel Studios MCU ever need to crossover? They wouldn’t! The rights of the X-Men/F4 aren’t coming back home anytime soon because like Kevin Feige once said, “as long as they keep making successful films they’ll be able to keep those rights.”
But what if a future negotiation between Marvel and Fox could change that? Allow me to be more direct here and remind you about how Fox wants to develop a live action X-Men television series. To make this happen Fox would need the “OK” from Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios. Seeing how the big dogs at Marvel was recently able to strike a deal with Sony to allow Spider-Man to appear in the MCU, Marvel might have something up their sleeves. The Spidey deal was completely free, no money involved whatsoever. It was more of a give and give deal if you get what I mean? Marvel gets Spidey to appear in the MCU while Sony uses Marvel Studios to keep Spidey relevant (and to save their asses).
Fox and Marvel could strike a give and give esque deal as well! Marvel allows Fox to make the live action X-Men T.V. series while Marvel Studios gets to use ONE of their characters in ONE of their upcoming films. This way, no one has to worry about either of the Marvel Cinematic Universes being sabotaged.
Which character and what film you might ask? Well the one person who’s wanted to appear alongside the Avengers for the longest now is Hugh Jackman; The Wolverine! What film could make this crossover happen? Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 or 2! What do you think? Can you guys see this happening? After all, Feige was able bring Spidey home!
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This is T’Challa, King of Wakanda, reporting courtesy of the Wakandan News Network via Comicbookmovie.com! Sound off below!