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Reply Subj: Marvel movies and who owns the rights Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 at 06:58:35 pm EDT (Viewed 364 times) | |||||||
Quote: Feige: Well, Fox has mutants and Sony/Universal…Universal doesn’t have anything. Sony’s got Spidey and Ghostrider, and those family of characters. And Fox has X-Men and Fantastic Four and Daredevil and those family of characters. But any mutants in particular? Mutants are X-Men. Is there a possibility for any of the X-mutants that are maybe lesser known to be in a Marvel movie or is it all encompassing like the Fox deal? Feige: It’s pretty all encompassing. I mean they’re very specific character by character. Every character they have the rights to have is named specifically in contracts. And it’s a long, long, long list. Is there a thing… Feige: So Dazzler for instance would be Fox. Oh. Feige: Because she’s a mutant. Yeah, that kind of sucks, even though that's what I suspected. Still, I wish the interviewer had pressed a little further, or had thought the question out a bit more to the point where he had asked about some specific characters. What about Namor? Didn't Marvel say he was a mutant? But then, I suppose he pre-existed the X-men by a large degree, so maybe he's a special case. Really though, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are the most obvious ones to ask about... I would have liked to have seen them name-checked rather than "Dazzler" as the example. With the announced "X-men: First Class" film being a prequel about Xavier setting up the school and his falling out with Magneto, I wouldn't be surprised to see Wanda and Pietro used in that one now. Sucks, though, since I'd much rather have seen them in an Avengers project. I guess television deals are a completely different thing, since they do that "Superhero Squad" show with Wolverine and Avengers character and all of the Marvel universe thrown together. Apparently Fox doesn't control cartoon versions, so hopefully Wanda and Pietro will be on the upcoming Avengers series. | |||||||