Rights revert to Marvel/Disney if Fox's next Daredevil film goes off the rails

[madmarva]

If I was Fox I'd just let it revert back. Dare Devil isn't a character that's going to generate Spider-Man-type money and rushing a production just to keep a the property is wasting money.

Chronicle is a good film with excellent effects. Makes me optimistic about an FF movie.

[johnmiic]

FOX doesn't know how to make an FF film. If they had 1/2 a brain and allowed Bryan Singer to get FF and X-Men to crossover the FF films might pick up in quality.

[Brue]

i am glad disney has the movie rights to the avengers characters and actually glad they don't have rights to many of the other players. why? because i think the stories are more believable when not every hero exists. think about the avengers movie - if spidey is introduced as existing then wouldn't it be stupid for him to not get involved. either you throw them all in the fight or you just say "wow, soider-man just did nothing!?"
i like that the movie franchises have separate universes

keep DD where he is. of course if they rush a film it could be bad. (note. i loved the first DD film)

[samurainoir]

I'm talking about the rights reverting to Marvel which is your headline...

The headline just got a whole lot urgent with the latest news didn't it?

[The Toyroom]

I'm talking about the rights reverting to Marvel which is your headline...

[samurainoir]

Also, FF gets a director

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2012/07/12/its-official-chronicles-josh-trank-directing-fantastic-four-reboot/

Fox has finally made it official: Chronicle director Josh Trank will helm the reboot of its Fantastic Four franchise. According to Deadline, production will begin sometime following Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, which goes in front of the cameras in January.

He’s expected to put the film ahead of his other projects: Sony’s Venom spinoff and Shadow of the Colossus adaptation, and Warner Bros.’ The Red Star adaptation.

Fox, which released Fantastic Four in 2005 and the sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2008, holds the movie rights to the Marvel property (as well as X-Men and Daredevil) in perpetuity — as long as the studio keeps making the films within a contractually prescribed time frame.

[samurainoir]

^^^
you already knew David Slade just dropped out this round? Just as they were about to start filming? In time for fall?

[The Toyroom]

I thought this was already common knowledge....???

[samurainoir]

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2012/07/12/david-slade-exits-foxs-daredevil/

Director David Slade has dropped out of Fox’s long-discussed Daredevil reboot, leaving the studio scrambling to get the project into production by the fall or risk the rights reverting to Marvel. Deadline cites a scheduling conflict with Slade’s commitment to helm NBC’s Hannibal pilot.

Best known for his adaptations of 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Slade signed on in March 2011 to helm the film, which is based on “Born Again,” the seminal 1986 Marvel comics storyline by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli.