Thursday 14 December 2017

Disney bought 20th Century Fox

The mouse ate the fox. That’s a big megacorp monopoly deal, swallowing one of the other five big studios. (It doesn’t include Fox News, so no cutting the head off that snake unfortunately.)

Look forward to Disney buying all of your hobbies and your actual childhood next.

From a geek perspective, this means they now own the X-Men and Fantastic Four parts of the Marvel universe so they can be dropped into the MCU, The Simpsons, Alien, Avatar, National Geographic... and possibly, due to assorted other rights issues, Buffy and Firefly.

A day too late to put the Fox fanfare back at the front of The Last Jedi, but I’d definitely expect that to happen.

The X-Men movies that are already on their way (Dark Phoenix, New Mutants and Deadpool 2) will presumably still happen, though some rebooting may occur - not that this series hasn’t been rebooted more than once already. Who knows what this means for Legion and The Gifted.

Wanda and Pietro’s MCU origins probably won’t be retconned (and nor will the mutant-style Inhuman plot from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) but they might include a line about how mutant powers are like Wanda’s but manifest naturally.

The Fantastic Four... well, I expect to see Doctor Doom turn up sooner rather than later. And they can play him straight and make a joke about how much he’s like Darth Vader.

Obviously I have high hopes for something Buffyverse.

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