Marvel's Kevin Feige says X-Men and Fantastic Four won't impact the MCU for a number of years

There was a lot of excitement amongst Marvel fans this past December when it was announced that The Walt Disney Company is set to acquire 20th Century Fox’s film assets, which includes the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.

Naturally this opens the door for Marvel Studios to bring the mutants and the First Family into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, the deal isn’t expected to be finalised until next year, and it seems we may have a few years to wait beyond that before we can expect see the likes of Wolverine and Reed Richards alongside Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

“Any of that deal would take a while to get going and years from whenever and if ever it happens,” Feige told The Playlist. “So, certainly it won’t impact the five movies we’ve announced, and it probably wouldn’t impact anything for a handful of years after that. Because really, we’re not thinking about that. We’re thinking of delivering on what we promised. Any movie, especially for any characters we don’t have the rights to yet until someone tells us we do, would be even further after that.”

Feige has recently revealed that Marvel intends on announcing its Phase Four slate next year after Avengers 4, and one would assume that the studio already has a fairly solid idea about its next slate of movies. However, as we saw with Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming when Spider-Man became available, Marvel is more than willing to change it ups plans when opportunities arise.

How would you integrate the X-Men and Fantastic Four into the MCU? Would you jump straight in with solo movies? A Secret Wars-style event? Let us know in the comments below…

NChris
The hardest part, aside from explaining the existence of mutants, would be dealing with the fact that the X-Men are SO much more powerful than any MCU hero to date. Like… Magneto could crush the Avengers with relative ease and he’s fighting children? They’ve always dialed back the powers in the MCU so they might have to adapt or weaken.
The big decision would be whether to start with the original five or to jump into the full Claremont team. I think it could go either way.
- MarvelFan_1
  Magneto beat Thor? no, almost every X-men would get crushed by Hulk, yes Phoenix is the real issue for the Avengers, shes more powerful than even Thanos or Odin, so that one I’ll give you.
  - NChris
    Well he did in the Ultimate Universe, which the MCU is largely based on. He stole Thor’s hammer and sank Manhattan. As for the Hulk, I think it depends on who is writing him whether or not a telepath could shut down his brain or if Magneto could hurl him into space or mess with the iron in his blood to knock him out or kill him.
- hmmmphh
  Who really cares? I mean do you even live in the real world?
  - NChris
    Says the guy trolling for a discussion about movies solely to complain about the discussion being about movies.