Disney's Fox Deal - 10 Properties That Will Be Selling Points For Disney+
6. The Marvel Back Catalogue
As has been touched upon in the introduction, Disney’s takeover now means that they can begin exploring how to introduce Marvel’s ‘First Family’ and the hundreds (if not thousands) of X-Men characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, allowing the likes of Wolverine, Deadpool, Professor X and Magneto to rub shoulders with the survivors of Endgame. It also allows the likes of Galactus, Dr. Doom and Kang the Conquerer to follow Thanos as world-conquering villains.
There have already been 11 X-Men films, the original trilogy (X-Men, X-Men 2 and X-Men The Last Stand), the prequel trilogy (First Class, Days Of Futures Past, Apocalypse), the Wolverine trilogy (Origins, The Wolverine and Logan) and 2 Deadpool outings. 2 further films are set to be released this year (Dark Phoenix and New Mutants), with several others in various stages of ‘development’ that may be pushed back or cancelled altogether to clear the slate and avoid the confusion of having two separate film universes on the go.
These can now all be added to Disney+, allowing audiences to sit through 20 years of stories (chronologically certainly isn’t recommended given how many discrepancies there are between the three trilogies!) and see how the likes of Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen/Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart/James McAvoy and Ryan Reynolds developed their characters over time.
The two mid 2000s Fantastic Four films now also belong to Disney, but it’s probably for the best if we all mutually agree to pretend that they never existed…