Disney buys Fox entertainment

I'm sure everyone's read the stories today. 

Disney bought Fox entertainment for more than $50 million in stock. Fox will keep its news and sports channels, and Disney gets almost everything else, including the film rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four.

In addition, Disney picks up some non-Marvel brands of sigificance, including The Simpsons, Avatar and Kingsman. Disney also adds Fox's 30 percent ownership of Hulu to its own 30 percent share, for a majority share.

So, what do y'all think?

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  • The Simpsons predicted this nearly 20 years ago...

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  • So this opens up a lot of possible movie team ups or fight combintations that were not possible before. Like the Hulk versus the Thing? Alot of other possibilites also come to mind. Any ideas? What would yall like to see as a result of this acquistion?

  • A decent Fantastic Four movie.

  • Vulture.com breaks it down: "6 Things We Know (and Don’t Know) About the Disney-Fox Merger"

  • The ink for this deal won't really be dry for about a year.

    It seems likely that anything that's already in the can is probably safe, and that includes all the 2018 movies -- New Mutants, Deadpool 2 and X-Men: Phoenix. Gambit, scheduled for early 2019, already has star and director signed, so is probably also still a go.

    Disney now owns 60 percent of Hulu, but can't do anything major without the other two stakeholders, NBC/Comcast and a smaller one, agreeing. Eventually, though, they are talking about making Hulu a prestige streamer with more adult content, while starting a second, family-oriented service for Disney, Pixar and Marvel. One wonders if they would still have R-rated superhero movies (like Logan and Deadpool) and send them to Hulu, or what. It's really too early to speculate, since nothing can happen for a year or two, but I just did anyway.

    My biggest question is about the Dr. Doom movie planned with Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley as writer and/or director. I think we'd all love to see a great Dr. Doom, regardless of who makes it. Hawley's take would certainly be interesting but if we still get a great Doom from someone else, I'm on board.

    This likely kills the possibility of an X-23 franchise. The option of re-creating Wolverine with a younger actor is an idea that probably has its own gravity well.

    I kinda wish they'd table Phoenix, and just wait for Feige to re-launch the X-franchise to tell that story. The X-universe is a mess right now, and the new Jean Grey (that chick from Game of Thrones) has maybe had six lines of dialogue. We have to know and love Jean Grey for Phoenix Saga to have any emotional impact, and it won't in 2018. But that's money in the bank, so I'm sure it will be released anyway, as probably the last X-movie before a reboot. (Unless Gambit is the last before a reboot.) 

    Who's actually still alive in the current X-universe? We have Magneto and Xavier, of course, but the adult crop of mutants includes Beast, Psylocke, Mystique, Quicksilver and Wolverine. That's a weird X-team. Scott and Jean are around, but are teenagers. If the little girl we saw when Quicksilver was introduced is Wanda, then she's probably still a pre-teen. This is X-Men history turned sideways.

  • I had no idea that the X-universe was in such a mess! So the actress that is portraying the new Jean Grey is a disappointment?

  • I wouldn't say a disappointment. Just that she hasn't had much screen time. It's hard to get attached to a character you don't see much. 

    We see Cyclops even less. I couldn't even tell you who plays him, and if he's had any dialogue at all.

  • Now that I've been thinking about it, I remember that X-Men: Apocalypse ended with a set-up for the X-Men going forward. (I find it easy to forget everything that happened in Apocalypse.) It ended much like Avengers: Age of Ultron did, with two veterans (Cap and Widow) looking out on a field of new recruits (Falcon, Vision, Scarlet Witch, War Machine).

    In this case it was Beast and Mystique beginning the training of a new class, consisting of Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Nightcrawler and Quicksilver. The five were all teenagers. Magneto had declined Xavier's offer to participate, Psylocke sneaked off (she was a villain) and both Angel and Havok were killed. I presume that's the status quo X-Men: Dark Phoenix will use.

    Which I hope will be the last use of this version of the characters. However they are introduced into the MCU, things will have to change -- Wanda and Pietro, for example, already exist there (although that Quicksilver is dead). And I don't particularly care for this version, which puts all the relationships I know in a blender, scrambles the timeline and doesn't even use Colossus, Banshee, Kitty Pryde, Iceman and other favorites. (Although most of those did appear before the First Class reboot or in the apocalyptic future of Days of Future Past.) It won't bother me at all if Kevin Feige wipes the slate clean after 2018. 

  • Here's a column on how X-Men/FF might move to MCU. Pure speculation, of course. But fun speculation!

  • The age of the hyper-popularity of Westerns ended; mustn't this age of superhero super-popularity end too?

    I think Westerns lost popularity because (a) people started seeing the Indian Wars differently (b) and stopped idealising the Americans who settled the West (c) and shifted from fantasising about living a freer/more exciting life in the past to living one in the present (James Bond) or future (Star Trek)[1] (d) due to a. and b. and the 1970s zeitgeist the Westerns became violent and dour (e) there had been so many of them everyone had seen all the Westerns they needed to see.

    Superhero films offer the fantasy of having superpowers. I suppose that has perennial appeal. Superhero movies have served as popular family films, and children like superheroes. I can't name a genre I think will replace them. But what other fad ever lasted?

     

    (1) To be sure, 1970s movie SF was amazingly dour, and the future can also be a locus of fears, including of nuclear war.

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