new evidence in the complex displays that the production company marvel contracted to produce WATXM was unwilling/unable to continue funding for the rest of season 2.
is this true? b/c after Big Hero 6 Im surprised Fox hasnt greenlit a teen X-Men animated film. Especially since theyve been having alot of flops/underpeformers lately(Rio2, Epic.)Fox controls the Movie and Animated movie rights,
If this is true, I can kiss my hopes of an animated Squirrel Girl movie adios.
If Disney wanted to rub Fox the wrong way it could push the X who are Avengers only in cartoons and toys just leaving out the term mutants and sweeping them under another blanket term for the superpowered.
I would buy Storm,Sunspot,Cannonball,Rouge,Havok,Penance,X23,t oys.. And I would not buy Beast,Logan or Hope but would love to see them all pop up in a cartoon even if it's Avenger themed. The X fans are getting desperate and a dark theme could work if we got a new X cartoon even kids respond well to heros who can lose or have characters die off.
http://www.leagle.com/decision/2001156155FSupp2d1_1156
The above is the most comprehensive discussion of the 1993 agreement. Fox owns the movie rights for both live action and animated movies and has to approve any live action TV series. Marvel owns the animated TV rights.
That's not to say that as with the legal dispute above, if Marvel launched an animated series that Fox for whatever reason thought infringed on their movie rights that Fox wouldn't take them to court so it's possible what Lane is talking about is it's complicated if they don't get official clearance from Fox on anything X-men related.
If you read the above, a lot of the back and forth in the case (Mutant X live program) was Fox and Marvel not just referencing the 1993 agreement but various drafts of that agreement to argue intent. It also makes clear that at one point Fox did have the animation rights and those rights reverted to Marvel but that's not to say that if Fox really wanted those rights they couldn't produce some old draft of the 1993 agreement and argue the intent was for them to retain those rights and that somehow it got left out of the final agreement. In the world of high priced corporate law, the Final Agreement is not the end all be all.
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Thank you for finding this. I imagine it wouldn't be easy. I figured this was the case. It makes sense because at the time this agreement was signed, Marvel was still producing X-men cartoons and they were successful. Marvel had an incentive to keep those rights and I don't think Fox, at the time, wanted to front the capital for making an animated series. This also explains why there aren't any DTV X-men animated movies. Marvel can't do those under this agreement. Then again, Marvel has been very lax when it comes to their animated features compared to DC. After Ultimate Avengers and Planet Hulk, they kind of just scrapped that concept. So I don't think that issue really bothers them.
Also, I don't see why Fox would have a problem with making an animated series that wasn't directly related to their movie continuity. They don't have to pay for it. They don't have to market it. X-men gets exposure for free, which could help market their movies and TV shows if they decided to do them. So I don't see why that would be a hindrance to Marvel producing a new X-men cartoon. They still went to great lengths to produce a Spider-Man cartoon, albeit a very bad one. Considering all the resources they're pouring into these shows and the popularity that X-men still has, Marvel really has no excuse other than being overly petty with Fox.
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