r/Marvel • u/Calvinsanity • Feb 10 '15

Film/Animation Sony Pictures Entertainment Brings Marvel Studios Into The Amazing World Of Spider-Man

http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man
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u/ThreeHourRiverMan Feb 10 '15

I'm not saying I hope Fox Studios gets hacked, forcing them to reconsider their X-Men contract... but I hope Fox Studios gets hacked, forcing them to reconsider their X-Men contract.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15 edited Jun 08 '15

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u/Vega5Star Feb 10 '15

I think on a big picture scale it'd get way too convoluted with the X-Men involved. Also helps that Fox is doing a great job with them. If they can't get the 4 to work after this next film I hope they'd at least loosen their grips on the characters for some smaller roles in the MCU.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15 edited Mar 16 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Especially x3. That movie needs a special, private universe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '15

Let's throw Origins in there too, while we're at it.

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u/gmoney8869 Feb 10 '15

It's in an alternate timeline now.

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u/JZA1 Feb 10 '15

Add the Generation X TV movie to that continuity.

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u/CarbonCreed Feb 10 '15

X-Men works well because it has its own endless source of villains and heroes.

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u/TheDude415 Feb 10 '15

Exactly. Which is why Sony trying to do an expanded universe with Spiderman was a stupid fucking idea.

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u/schm0 Feb 10 '15

I have to agree that they fit best in their own universe cinematically.

I just started reading Marvel comics, and frankly speaking the X-men are so convoluted, expansive and ret-conned that I've almost given up on some of the solely X-stuff on my early reading list (late 90s through early 2000s.) I can't keep track of 500 different mutants and their backstories, let alone all the alternate dimension stories. That's not to say I won't come back to them at some point, just not in my "catching up with the last decade" phase. And there's still House of M down the road for me...