3. Marvel Might Be Willing To Make It Worth Their While In Other Ways
The above is what Fox could have been a part of. The below is what Fox should be busting their asses trying to be a part of.
As I mentioned in another article about Fox's recent marvelous maneuvering, the studio has a unique position compared to any non-Marvel movie studio with rights to Marvel properties. With Fantastic Four and X-Men safely under their wing for, Fox has a vast set of characters that could be crossed over into multiple types of plots. Sure, Sony has Spidey and Ghost Rider, but let's not kid ourselves, there isn't all that much potential for cool crossovers with those two guys. Reed Richards and Professor X taking on Dr. Doom and Magneto on the other hand? Nerd, gold. Ya know what would turn that gold into some platinum? Add in Tony Stark and Loki or Captain America and The Abomination? Sadly this kind of multi-studio crossover stuff hasn't happened yet (at least in superhero flicks) because wading through the legalese is a rather huge pain in the ass among other things. That's not to say it's an insurmountable hurdle though. Disney and Warners were able to meet on common ground to make "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" so there's always hope. One things that could kindle that spark of hope into a lighters flame igniting the bowl of a peace pipe is a gesture of goodwill on Fox's part by offering to give back Daredevil in exchange for the use of other characters between studios. Yes we know it's a nerd fantasy, but as little as 7 or 8 years ago so was the idea of Marvel slowly bringing characters together into a larger movie universe. Now that we're here, and Fox can see how fertile (and lucrative) the ground of movie crossover events can be, the sky itself is no longer a limit. When weighed against the idea of sweet talking Marvel and Disney into mixing things up with Fox to make a mega movie that could be even bigger than "The Avengers" the notion of doing another Daredevil movie seems pretty weak.