But yeah, Marvel Studios will have an even brighter future with the X-Men and FF in their control. Not even their "magic touch" can do much with characters like Morbius the Living Vampire. +++++ If marvel can have success with Groot then anything is possible. I could see Morbius working well if Blade ever shows up in a Netflix series.
I like how auto-correct keeps wanting to change Morbius to Morris.
I wonder if Star Wars was a sticking point in the deal. Fox currently owns all distribution rights to Episode IV and will forever unless they sell them. They also have the home video and streaming rights to Episode I-III,V & VI till 2020. These are cash cows that do not cost Fox a lot of money considering the return on investment. You have to figure that ANY chance of a Star Wars Theatrical Cut release relies on this deal going through. Also, we probably won't see a box set with all of the saga films together without this deal as well.
Iger has added another immense company to his collection, after acquiring animation giant Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion, Marvel in 2008 for $4 billion, and Lucasfilm in 2012 for another $4 billion.
"At $52.4 billion, the purchase of the Fox film studio, started by William Fox in 1915, would dwarf all of them."