Fox and Sony have both been very reluctant to sell their Marvel rights back to Disney/Marvel because they want the money for themselves (understandably). Why give Disney the rights and make a paltry few million when you can use said rights to make your own movie and potentially make a billion?
F4 bombing is the only thing that brought Sony to the bargaining table for Spiderman.
Originally posted by Darth Thor
Waiting for the announcement that Marvel has the rights to Fantastic Four and all related characters back. But have a feeling Fox are gonna be jerks and let that transition drag on.
Originally posted by HulkIsHulk
Its that if they are gonna lose the rights, till then they want to milk every penny as they can out of it, and then sell it for the highest price ever possible
They can't milk anything out of it. They've in fact lost money on it.
And they won't be in a position to sell. If they're not in production on another FF movie in like 5 years then the rights will revert back to Marvel for free.