A Rumour is circulating thanks to reports from Pete’s Basement that Marvel and FOX are in discussions to bring the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Up until recently the thought of these two companies, who are definitely not on the friendliest of terms, simply hugging it out and making a deal would be insanity. However since Sony’s recent deal with Marvel to allow them to reboot Spider Man into the MCU, the possibility of Marvel reaching out to FOX (or vise versa) isn’t completely unbelievable.

Reports are that the proposed team up would come to screens by 2020, which is just outside Marvel’s Phase 3 current movie slate.

Another reason why this could be true is that by 2020, a lot, if not all of the current Avengers cast contracts would have come to an end, so there is no guarantee that any of the Avengers that we know and love will still be around by 2020.

This would perhaps be an ideal time for a recast or new group of X-Men to join a re-imagined/re-cast Avengers, which would kick off another 5+ years of superhero films (ehh, great).

Information about this is still pretty scarce, and i dare say that if the rumour picks up enough traction we’ll probably hear a statement from either Marvel, FOX, or someone close to the sources that this rumour is false ect…

It seems odd that FOX would consider a merger with Marvel seeing as they have finally found their groove with the X-Men franchise, with X-Men : Days of Future Past having the biggest opening weekend of any X-Men film, and grossing $748.1 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing X-Men film of all time. So why would FOX, being on such a winning streak consider diluting their character base, and possibly rebooting their X-Men line up by merging with Marvel’s Avengers for a 2020 feature?

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if there is any truth to this rumour or not.

Personally I think Avengers and X-men should be kept as there own separate cinematic entities. The timelines are way too muddled up as it is, that trying to insert them with the Avengers is surely just going to be a mess.

However I wouldn’t totally be against seeing the Fantastic 4 in the MCU, especially if Fant4stic doesn’t perform well, FOX might be willing to let Marvel take back their very first superhero team.

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