10 Ways The DC Cinematic Universe Could Eclipse Marvel's

5. DC Own All Their Properties

A key component of Marvel's success on the big screen is their ability to integrate their heroes into one cohesive universe, allowing favourite characters to cross over and appear in each others movies. However, it looks unlikely that Marvel will ever be able to combine all of their hottest properties into one blockbuster event due to frustrating legal issues regarding ownership. Sony have control over the Spider-Man franchise and Fox Studios own both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, meaning that a crossover between Marvel's biggest guns seems almost impossible any time in the near future. Bizarrely, the lines have blurred somewhat recently in the case of one particular Marvel superhero; the mutant Quicksilver was memorably played recently by Evan Peters in X-Men: Days of Future Past, a movie produced by Fox, but this has not stopped Marvel from casting Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the same role for the upcoming movie Avengers: Age of Ultron. This unique scenario is due to the characters complicated history in the comics, but the impact of this is yet to be determined. Will casual cinema-goers become confused by different portrayals of Quicksilver appearing so soon after one another and more importantly, will comparisons cast the weaker role in a bad light? Unlike its competitor, DC owns the movie rights to all of its characters, so fortunately, the company will never have a problem connecting different properties within its cinematic universe. This gives the scriptwriters a far wider scope of material to draw upon, allowing them to eventually adapt huge crossover events such as Identity Crisis and Crisis on Infinite Earths, fulfilling the dreams of fanboys everywhere.