#Avengers xmen crossover movie movie#

The Avengers is the third highest grossing film in history every character in its sequel is going to be getting a lot of attention. It’s possible that this is why Whedon and Feige have been talking about involving the two in The Avengers 2 so early, to gain some primacy on the idea, in which case, Fox following up on it with their own version of the character just makes savvy business sense.

#Avengers xmen crossover movie movie#

If they’re in that grey area, it’s likely that who gets to make a movie with them boils down to two options: either who ever does the character first, gets them, or each company can just make their own versions. Storms allegiance to the X-Men at this point in the storyline (although she turned against the Phoenix Five as a result of this event) led to Black Panther annulling their marriage- putting an end to their romance for a time. Granted, the Marvel Comics universe is one where almost everybody has been on the Avengers at some point (I think I might have been on the Avengers for a month in 2002), but Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were a full half of the second Avengers team alongside Captain America and Hawkeye, and though they are the mutant children of Magneto, have always stayed pretty distant from the X-Men. The fallout of this attack was felt for years within the Marvel Universe.

Despite owning the two big Marvel teams, they never brought them together on the big screen. The studio enjoyed various levels of success in the early 2000s with the launch of their X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises. There have been indications here and there from folks who would know the exact details of Fox’s licensing agreement with Marvel (like Marvel Entertainment head Kevin Feige) that the two characters in in the grey area between secondary X-Men characters and secondary Avengers characters. Fox was planning an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover movie several years ago - but here is why it never happened.

Even without confirmation this doesn’t seem very unlike to me.