Formerly known by names including "Atlas" and "Timely", Marvel Entertainment is the publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil. Currently owned by the Walt Disney Company, Marvel is one of the "Big Two" comic publishers along with DC Comics.
Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to The Punisher, Blade, and Ghost Rider in April 2013. Kevin Feige has said that Marvel does own the movie rights to Namor the Sub Mariner but it is complicated he said this in July of this year. Inhumans film is owned by Marvel studios and a script is already completed. The Kree, Skrull, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch are co-owned by Marvel Studios and FOX (it would be so much more awesome if all characters were co-owned so none of this would even be an issue). FOX still has film rights to Doctor Doom, Galactus, X-force, Deadpool, Cable, Omega Red and Silver Surfer. X-force film script is complete Cable and Deadpool are included. Oscorp Tower was going to appear in The Avengers but timing was an issue. If Marvel Studios and Sony can work together and get Spider-man in a future Marvel Studios film it will be profitable for everybody and both sides win. Sony also owns rights to Venom and Black Cat so Sony doesn't have a great deal to work with. They also own the rights to Carnage. I am trying to find a list of "smaller" characters to see who owns all of the rights to them. That would be awesome if i can find that list and i will post this list on here.
I read somewhere on facebook that Spider man's going to feature in the next Avengers film, not only that but also in the first amazing Spider man film they were going digitally impose Stark Tower in the background at the end of the film but they didn't have time. Is this true?
The result of this travesty is that our favourite characters are just getting ruined, changing any aspect of the characters that the companies like such as race or things such as whether Scarlet Witch is a mutant or not.
@gambit1024: Thanks for all the info. In light of the upcoming Infinity War movies, what is the status on the secondary cosmic entities, like Infinity, Eternity, Lord Chaos, Master Order, etc.? Along with Adam Warlock, they play pretty crucial roles in the Infinity Gauntlet storyline in the comics. Would Marvel Studios just take the story in a different direction for the movie's sake in order to avoid dealing with potential legal entanglements from their use?
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