well... they could, and they might be excited to do it too
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/disney-and-fox-are-closing-in-on-deal-could-be-announced-next-week--sources.htmlSummary of the deal:
Fox to sell 21st Century Fox to Disney (for $60B?) the Movie and TV division and all IP assets.
This DOES NOT include FOX News, FOX Sports nor the Fox Network Channelthis does include FX/FXX, National Geographic Channel, an additional 30% of Hulu (for a total of 60% share) and whatever stake Fox has in Sky over in the UK.
p.s. this deal could be announced next week, but it may still not be finalized till sometime late into next year depending on the details. So don't expect any immediate changes to anything from either side.
How this relates to this thread:
Marvel getting full control of everything X-Men and Fantastic 4 would mean that they may want to find a way to reboot X-Men into the fold sometime in 2020 and beyond.
It's been rumored and stated by Stan Lee that Marvel has F4 back since earlier this year. People have been speculating that F4 would be a Phase4 film and it would be pretty easy to incorporate into the MCU as is.
But getting the X-Men in whole changes everything is Marvel wants to use them in the MCU asap (2020 or beyond).
-Personally I think Marvel should keep 21st Century "Fox" studios and keep X-men separate from the MCU. but they should also reboot X-men to fit into the Deadpool continuity after Phoenix gets released.
-Keep everything and everyone involved w/ Deadpool and X-Force (depending on how that all turns out).
-Review the status of that Doom movie, and see if they can salvage that Writer/Director to work it into the MCU (I'm sure that Feige already has a plan for Doom on hand, since it's been rumored that Marvel had worked some sort of deal for F4 already)
-See how New Mutants turns out and see if it fits in the DP continuity or not
-Scrap that Gambit movie, since the X-men will be getting rebooted into DP continuity
and then on a separate but related note:
- use some Fox assets to wriggle Spider-man in whole away from Sony (Alien, Predator, etc etc... The Simpsons if necessary)
- use Fox Assets to get Universal to release whatever rights they have to The Hulk and Namor (Alien, Predator, The Simpsons, etc etc) - Maybe giving NBC/Universal/Comcast the full rights to The Simpsons will also get them to release the rights to all Marvel IP East of the Mississippi line for amusement parks as well. (they can keep what they have for now, but in 10 years, once they've had time to plan and build and rebrand, they have to make the switch)