For years, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe had been daydreaming about what would happen if the X-Men and the Fantastic Four were part of the shared mythology, a sentiment that was also shared by Hugh Jackman. However, it seemed like wishful thinking as Fox held onto the rights with an iron grip.
The Fantastic Four may have been the subjects of four terrible movies, none of which exactly set the box office alight, but the merry band of mutants had brought in $6 billion dollars over two decades, and the studio were never going to let the comic book characters out of their grasp. Of course, you can’t rule anything out when a corporation the size of Disney are involved, with the Mouse House ultimately buying the entire company outright, which saw the rights to both iconic superhero teams fall straight into Kevin Feige’s lap.
The MCU’s Fantastic Four is already in development with Spider-Man‘s Jon Watts set to direct, but the X-Men could be a long way away yet. Reed Richards, Sue Storm, her brother Johnny and Ben Grimm don’t have the same kind of cinematic baggage as Charles Xavier’s students, who appeared in thirteen movies of wildly varying quality spread across 20 years, and an enforced absence could be beneficial in the long run.
There’s still been plenty of rumors swirling about how the X-Men could be introduced into the MCU though, with tipster Mikey Sutton claiming the original vintage could be set to cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Sutton does say that the chances of Hugh Jackman showing up are slim though, but even roping in the likes of James Marsden, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart would be enough to generate a huge reaction from audiences when Multiverse of Madness arrives in March 2022.
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