Studios pissing contest

  For those of you who may have heard Marvel is rumored to cancel it's entire Fantastic Four line (as well as side-line the Fantastic four to guest appearances) in order to try and undermine Fox studios who are making the Fantastic Four.

  Ok a little background, back in the 90's Marvel was going bankrupt and in order to stay they sold off the movie rights to different studios for many different characters. Sony got everything Spider-man (except Spider-woman but that is a long story), Fox got all of the X-men property and Fantastic Four property (including some cosmic stuff) and Universal (I think) got Namor. Which is why you don't see things like Spider-man in the Avengers.


   While Marvel Studios (the guys who own everything else Marvel) are on friendly terms with Sony and Universal, the relationship with Fox has been infamously antagonistic. Marvel does not like what Fox has done with the Fantastic four and X-men properties and want them back, Fox of course does not want to give them back. Their feud is so bad that the only reason Quicksilver was used in X-men Days of future past was because they knew the character was going to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron, so they decided to beat Marvel to the punch.


  To me no difference will be made by cancelling the Fantastic Four line, their comics have never really sold that well (which is bad because comics are selling less and less these days.) Unlike the X-men comics line which makes up the bulk of Marvel's comic profit. I could only really see this hurting them is that they end up pissing off Fantastic Four fans by doing this thus losing a couple customers. Not to mention it makes Marvel Studios indirectly look a little bad and they've already been having a rough week as it is.


   I have never personally been a fan of Fantastic Four, I don't really find them that interesting and could give a damn about the new reboot. The news however makes me sad because it shows how childish this feud is and makes the people involve look like a bunch of babies. Grown ups often tell kids and teenagers to act like adults which from the sounds of this situation act like temperamental brats who can't get along. Everyone in this situation looks bad and won't do anything in the long run. (If it does than damn!)