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Disney-Fox Deal Triggers A Big Bang In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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The buyout is also a coup for Disney in India, as it adds to its belt the National Geographic Channels, Star India, FX and Fox networks.
Updated : July 29, 2018 11:01 IST
Fans have long lamented 'separation' of the movie universes under which Marvel characters operate

Story Highlights
Fox's movie studio held movie rights to Marvel characters like 'X-Men'
Now, Marvel will have movie rights for X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool
They could possibly be a part of future Avengers movies from Marvel
The much-awaited triumph of the Avengers against universal overlord Thanos may still be a year away but fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have a reason to celebrate. The Walt Disney conglomerate on Friday effectively acquired 21st Century Fox in a massive $71.3 billion buyout. With the deal, Disney will now own the movie and television rights to a host of Marvel characters that Marvel had sold to 21st Century Fox and were therefore missing from the gargantuan franchise.
These superheroes include the 'X-Men', 'Deadpool' and 'Fantastic Four'. Marvel Studios, the movies and television division of comic book company Marvel, was bought by Disney in the year 2009. Fans have long lamented the 'separation' of the movie universes under which the Marvel characters operate.

The buyout is also a coup for Disney, as it adds to its belt the National Geographic Channels, Star India, FX and Fox networks.

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Disney-Fox Deal Triggers A Big Bang In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
World Edited by Anuj Pant
The buyout is also a coup for Disney in India, as it adds to its belt the National Geographic Channels, Star India, FX and Fox networks.
Updated : July 29, 2018 11:01 IST
Fans have long lamented 'separation' of the movie universes under which Marvel characters operate

Story Highlights
Fox's movie studio held movie rights to Marvel characters like 'X-Men'
Now, Marvel will have movie rights for X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool
They could possibly be a part of future Avengers movies from Marvel
The much-awaited triumph of the Avengers against universal overlord Thanos may still be a year away but fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have a reason to celebrate. The Walt Disney conglomerate on Friday effectively acquired 21st Century Fox in a massive $71.3 billion buyout. With the deal, Disney will now own the movie and television rights to a host of Marvel characters that Marvel had sold to 21st Century Fox and were therefore missing from the gargantuan franchise.
These superheroes include the 'X-Men', 'Deadpool' and 'Fantastic Four'. Marvel Studios, the movies and television division of comic book company Marvel, was bought by Disney in the year 2009. Fans have long lamented the 'separation' of the movie universes under which the Marvel characters operate.

The buyout is also a coup for Disney, as it adds to its belt the National Geographic Channels, Star India, FX and Fox networks.

Marvel had sold off many of its characters' movie and television rights to competing movie studios before it had become a successful movie studio in its own right.

Besides the sell-offs to Fox, Marvel also gave Sony, the movie rights to 'Spider-Man' and to Universal, the partial movie rights to the 'Hulk' (under the deal with Universal, Marvel cannot use the Hulk character in solo movies. The deal allows Marvel to only use the Hulk character if it appears alongside the Avengers, a superhero team-up of its characters).

Fox on the other hand, despite creating a multi-billion-dollar franchise out of the 'X-Men', a franchise with a roster of hundreds of diverse characters, achieved mixed results, with many of its movies being as critically panned as they were critically acclaimed.

Now, the fate of the X-Men, a team of comic book characters which include 'Wolverine', 'Charles X. Xavier', 'Magneto' and many more, will be decided by Marvel, who will have to take a decision whether to reboot the decades-old franchise, or to continue with the new roster of characters introduced by Fox, which include 'Deadpool' and 'The New Mutants'.

There is already speculation that the new 'X-Men' movies which are currently in production by Fox, including 'Dark Phoenix' (which stars Game of Thrones' breakout Sophie Turner as its lead with Jessica Chastain as the alleged villain) and 'The New Mutants' (a team of teen X-Men characters locked inside a mental institute, starring another Game of Thrones' breakout star, Maisie Williams), stand to be cancelled by them, as studio executives are not happy with the shape the movies have taken.

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