#aka building on the nostalgia of the old cartoon about Peter and his BFFs Iceman and Firestar

[bigskydreaming]

Ahhh. I’m hearing old industry friend talking about how the reason there’s no projected X-Men MCU projects before 2025, even though they’ve started going ahead with using the term mutant in universe, is NOT because they can’t use the characters yet per the old Fox contracts OR because they’d have to reuse the same actors per the actors still being attached thanks to the old Fox projects....

Rather, its because the PRODUCERS of the Fox X-Men films are still attached until 2025, and any MCU projects that use material already established in the Fox movies would mean Kinberg, Singer, etc, would be guaranteed a seat at the producer table and that specifically is what MCU producers are trying to avoid.

Interesting.

#Im curious to see how this plays out in a variety of respects #for instance they've really been hyping up the whole Spider-man and his amazing friends concept in the comics lately #aka building on the nostalgia of the old cartoon about Peter and his BFFs Iceman and Firestar #and there were a LOT of rumors awhile back that the next (or at least a proposed future) Spider-Man movie about Peter in college #wanted to introduce Firestar and Bobby #(although that was intertwined with rumors they wanted to introduce Bobby and Johnny Storm as Peter's new BFFs #which has credence given that i can see the MCU trying to go that route and there's the fact that originally the Spiderman #and his Amazing Friends cartoon only created and used Firestar INSTEAD of Johnny because of Johnny's cartoon rights being tied #up elsewhere at the time) #but regardless I am interested to see if that pans out still (before 2025) and how they might go about it #because there's no problem using Firestar in a future Spider-Man movie since her character has no prior connection #to the Fox movies nor is it reliant on material specifically introduced in those films #but Bobby would be more of an issue. HOWEVER. I could see them trying the angle that going with a take on Bobby Drake #that's rooted in his post coming out narratives - openly gay etc #would count as a substantial differentiation from the Fox film version of Bobby and thus be grounds for introducing #his character prior to 2025 WITHOUT having to loop in any of the Fox producers because they'd be utterly #irrelevant to this take on the character #now I'm jaded about the MCU in general but tbh one of my go-to thoughts since they got the X-Men rights back were #*rolls eyes at Disney* 'wonder how likely it is that Bobby - who's been in virtually every major X-Men adaptation EVER when he was written #as straight - just so happens to end up one of the major X-characters coincidentally NOT to make it into the MCU in the first several #waves of X-Men making their MCU debuts' #so......given that he IS one of the biggest and most iconic X-Men characters who COULD feasibly be introduced to the MCU pre-2025 #going by this chatter as to why the hold-up with major X-characters still.....BUT that introducing him and using #him to help build up a foundation of mutants in the MCU would RELY on infamously homophobic Disney to greenlight #a clear and distinctive emphasis on an unambiguously gay Bobby Drake......hmmm #kinda curious to see how this all plays out on just a meta or behind the scenes level