From the 1970s to the mid-90s, Marvel Entertainment Group was forced to sell the rights to their characters in various film studios - because the Marvel itself was still not engaged in the production of films and barely kept afloat. As part of this "sales", the following alignment turned out:
- Xu People, Sorvigolov and Fantastic Four went to Studios 20th Century Fox
- Spiderman - Sony
- Blade's right acquired Studio New Line Cinema
- The ghost racer was at Columbia Pictures
- Puncher - Lionsgate
- The rights to the Hulk were universal
Several years have passed, and Marvel began collecting the rights to their superheroes back. By the end of 2013, the Native Penates, to Marvel Studios, returned:
- Sorvigolov
- Hulk (partially right to it still belong to Universal, so I can not wait for Solniks about the Hulka)
- Blade
- Ghost rider
- the Punisher
In 2015, Sony Pictures, a dead grip clinging to a man-spider man, slightly arrived a fist and developed an agreement with Marvel - as a result in 2016 we saw Tom Holland in a man-spider suit in "First Avenger: confrontation", and in July 2017 The actor will return to the "Spider Man: Returning Home" in the company Mcu Stars Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark / Iron Man).
Studio 20th Century Fox, meanwhile, still owns the rights of the X-people and the fantastic four and collaborate with Marvel is not going to (the next "fantastic fantasy" at the box office in 2015 failed, but the franchise "X-People" from the 20th Century Fox develops enough Successfully - although it does not boast record MCU records).
The problem of mutants
When the Studio 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to the people of X and the fantastic four, actually she got even more. Now FOX owns rights not just on the characters of the Universe "People of X", but also on the concept of mutants - even if they are traditionally, they are not included in Rostrome people.
The rights to the fantastic four provided 20th Century Fox also an exclusive right to another number of characters from Marvel Universe - such as Galactus and Silver Surfer.
And finally, there is a separate category of "problem" characters whose rights belong to both Marvel and Fox. The brightest examples are mercury and allay witch. Technically, they are the children of Magneto ("X-People") and mutants, so the rights to them are Fox. However, at the same time, these two heroes enter the Rostrome of Avengers, so the Marvel can manage them. That is why not so long ago we could immediately observe two versions of mercury performed by Evan Peters ("X-Men") and Aaron Taylor-Johnson ("Avengers: Era Altron").
And, according to rumors, it was for this reason that the MCU version of mercury producers preferred to kill in Altron as a compromise - so that Fox remains mercury, and Marvel / Mcu is a sharp witch.
Fale "Fantastic Four"
In 2015, the 20th Century Fox released the "Fantastic Four" film on the screens of the film "Reincarnation", and he fell into a row with a crash. Objectively speaking, the 20th Century Fox hurried and released an extremely poor-quality film. And hurried the studio because it turned out to be on the verge of loss of rights to the fantastic four.
The conditions of ownership of rights on these characters are such that the 20th Century Fox should use them - otherwise Marvel has the right to ask her toys back. So in the end it turned out with the Sorvigolova - 20th Century Fox did not use it for a very long time and the rights per character lost. For the same reason, the 20th Century Fox removed the "X-Mens: First Class" - and in essence, a forced measure led to a very cool "reincarnation" of the Universe X-Men.
Following the same logic, in the future, 20th Century Fox will have to look for a new actor to replace Hugh Jackman for the role of Wolverine - otherwise and Rosomah's right will be returned to Marvel. And Hugh Jackman, meanwhile, was mentioned in one of the interviews, which can try on claws one more time if his hero truly turns out to be in MCU.
"I came to negotiate"
To the credit of film studii-Major, to cooperate with Marvel, which now can also be considered an impressive force in Hollywood, they are willing. We have already mentioned the Sony and Marvel joint project - "Spiderman: Return home." The 20th Century Fox with Marvel also work - for example, film studios together shot the series "Legion" about the son of the Founder's Father Mutants of Professor Xavier. It is likely that in the future, thanks to this cooperation Marvel and Fox, there will still be some representatives of the universe of the same fantastic four - for example, Namor (Namor The Sub-Mariner), which Fox still does not use.
James Gann, working on the "Guards of the Galaxy 2" for Marvel, was forced to agree on exchange with 20th Century Fox to get the rights to the ego - a live planet (Kurt Russell) played this role in the film. In return "Fox" received from Marvel permission to change the ability of supersonic warheads (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), the heroine from Dadpool with Ryan Reynolds.
