Besides the xmen fox, wolverine fox, silver surfer fox, h. There has been no official announcement by marvel or fox. The mouse house bought marvel entertainment in 2009, and they got the movie rights to the marvel characters not licensed out. I would do anything to do silver surfer because, visually, you could do what the wachowskis did with speed racer with the silver surfer. Marvel buying back the film rights to the xmen, fantastic four, and deadpool was once only the stuff of nerd dreams, but now that those dreams have become reality, we should really consider just. Who is the owner of the rights of marvel studios answers.
Could the real galactus turn up in one of marvels upcoming movies. He is faster also has the perceptionsenses to keep track of superman at top speed, probably stronger if not as strong, can manipulate matter, is very invulnerable, has vast. Marvel character movie rights and upcoming movies mtr. Nova tries to convince the surfer to stop the attack, but the surfer seems devoid of all emotion he once had for living things, informing nova that it must be this way for. A a boy, not even 10 years old, is being chased by three older boys. Disney acquired 20th century fox in march 2019, meaning that the film rights to the silver surfer are now with marvel studios. Marvel gave fox the tv rights to the xmen in exchange for the film rights to the fantastic four with plans for a 2020 film. Now that disney officially owns the liveaction rights to the characters under the xmen and fantastic four umbrellas, plenty of new opportunities have opened up for the team at marvel studios. Reports on j michael straczynskis script for a silver surfer spinoff film stated that it would involve the character returning to his home world of zennla. But when a huge company like 20th century fox owns the rights to a comic book character they have to maximize their investment. The silver surfer character was created by the legendary jack kirby in 1966 and first made the jump to liveaction in 2007s sequel fantastic four. I always heard it was bc fox owned the rights to the silver surfer but it just seemed odd since it was a cartoon movie not a real life movie. Universal studios owns the rights to the solo hulk movies.
Rise of the silver surfer hardly touched on the eponymous characters tragic backstory and how he became the servant. Galactus and silver surfer, since fox still owns those movie rights. Rise of the silver surfer debuted and it was not wellreceived. Obviously, much has changed since then and silver surfer is on his way to rejoining his fellow marvel superheroes on the big screen now, thanks to the impending disneyfox buyout. The rule of thumb here is if its a mutant, chances are 20th century fox owns the rights. Marvel owns the silver surfer chatacter, though its film rights belong to fox, it may be possible for disney to work out a deal for infinity war prior to consumating disneys acquisition of most of 21st century fox. Rise of the silver surfer on the dvdbluray release is a 2007 american superhero film, and sequel to the 2005 film fantastic four. Mainly, the situation arose from a time in the 90s when marvel was nearly insolvent and had to sell off properties in order to survive.
The marvel movie character rights and where they are. The gwws sources have heard that marvel studios is actively developing a silver surfer movie. Even then, if they do an infinity gauntlet type movie, theyll more than likely be missing two key figures. The silver surfer is next seen bringing galactus to a planet known as orbucen so he may consume the planets energy. The 10 biggest superheroes marvel lost their rights to. The silver surfer is a fictional superhero appearing in american comic books published by marvel comics. Fox declined so daredevil went back to marvel and fox kept galactus as part of their fantastic 4 package. Silver surfer movie in active development at marvel studios. The fictional superhero team fantastic four featured in marvel comics publication has appeared in four liveaction films since its inception. Rise of the silver surfer, with doug jones the shape of water providing his physical presence and laurence fishburne his voice. At the time kaufman said it would mirror his own interests in environmental issues.
No ones ever heard of the silver surfer and they think we own the rights to him. There was a rumor circulating a couple weeks ago that an actor had been cast to play the silver surfer in the upcoming infinity war flick. Marvel reportedly developing a silver surfer movie. Silver surfer joins the mcu in marvelous movie poster fan art. So, considering this, if the inhumans arent part of the ff license, then most likely characters with only slight connection to a franchise arent necessarily included. Is marvels silver surfer returning to the silver screen.
Constantin film is the film production and distribution company that currently owns the rights to the fantastic four and related characters, purchasing them from marvel in 1986. When can marvel get the rights back to the fantastic four. Also, as i mentioned with 20th century fox, the relationship between these two studios is pretty hostile. Interesting article on the galactus and silver surfer movie rights someone asked via pm. Director of antman and vice, adam mckay, has expressed interest in a potential silver surfer movie and spoke about wanting to be part of the project back in. We havent seen the silver surfer since 2007 when the fantastic four. The problem with the xmen movie rights coming back to marvel. And, whaddya know, marvel recently announced three untitled. Marvel movie characters that other studios actually own. Who are the remaining unused marvel characters and could. Both films are based on the fantastic four comic book and were directed by tim story. At the same time, theres a great emotional story in there, man, where norrin radd silver surfer has to make the choice to save his planet.
Menu icon a vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Another great character that would come with that deal is the silver surfer, the herald to galactus and a pretty awesome character in his own right. Of course, during the course of the production, there had been those who had argued the guys should have dumped the silver surfer in favor of a character they made up and that they did hold the rights to. Silver surfer, and the other cosmic characters fox has, to incorporate them into the marvel cinematic universe. I would do anything to do silver surfer because, visually, you could do what the wachowskis did with speed racer with the silver surfer, mckay said. Batman writer sam hamm was rumored to be writing the script. Marvel offered fox a deal where they would be allowed to keep daredevil in exchange for the silver surfer and galactus rights. Like all the marvel properties that disney now owns the film and television rights to, look for silver surfers debut solo adventure to push even higher once hes confirmed in a new movie. Rumors that the surfer and his master galactus would be gifted to marvel so that fox could retain the daredevil rights proved baseless, as the. Once we bring actors and cameras into it, though, things get confusing quickly. Back in 2012, there were even rumors that marvel studios was trying to barter for the movie rights to the surfer and his master galactus, in exchange for the film rights to daredevil. Currently, sony owns the movie rights to spiderman, while 20 th century fox owns both the successful xmen movie franchise both have new films hitting in. In this impressive volume, we witness the origin of the demi god galactus, the surfers escaping of galactus barrier with the aid of the fantastic four to return to his home world zennla to his. According to a report from gww, their inside sources are saying that marvel studios is actively developing a silver surfer movie as you know, marvel recently got the rights back to all the fantastic four characters, and we know that there is a fantastic four film in development.
A new silver surfer movie is in the works helmed by. Disney wont get fantastic 4 rights in fox purchase. Does marvel have the right to use the silver surfer in. Presumably, many of the characters created in various comics stories for that portion of the silver surfers backstory including his lover shallabal fall under the fantastic four rights.
I would have pegged them as belonging to that franchise as much as silver surfer. Silver surfer has been a character that many people have wanted to work on for marvel, including academy award winning director, adam mckay, who name dropped the cosmic hero back in. Fox was holding onto characters like the xmen and fantastic four, but. Andre braugher dropped out from er to film fantastic four. He is holding something small, a terminator figurine. So, which movie studio owns your favorite superhero. In february 2018, it was reported that 20th century fox was developing a silver surfer solo film with writer brian k. During this attack they encounter nova richard rider. The character also appears in a number of movies, television, and video game adaptations. Silver surfer since the 1990s, constantin films has owned the rights to the silver surfer and has struggled in vain to spotlight him as the star of a new movie. Its unfortunate because galactus would be perfect to set up for avengers 3. Prince namor was described as a man who has certain bad feelings toward the.
Marvel currently has three untitled films slated for 2020. Mckay was in talks to replace edgar wright as director on the film, only to abruptly pass. He landed upon the german production company constantin film, whose founder bernd eichinger promised lee that he would option the production rights to the fantastic four and the silver surfer in. Disney revamp of fantastic four in marvel cinematic. Fantastic fours movie rights may return to marvel, get. General hager was originally supposed to be nick fury, but this had to be changed at the last minute due to rights issues fox owns film rights to the fantastic four, while marvel studios has rights to fury. Shards of the past a star wars theory fanfilm duration. His appearance marked the introduction of the galactus mythos, with silver surfer as one of his heralds. In 1983, german producer bernd eichinger met lee and eventually agreed to option not purchase the fantastic four and silver surfers film rights read. Marvel character movie rights that disney doesnt own. Rise of the silver surfer was released in 2007, and fox had to start production on the fantastic four reboot in 2014 to hold onto the rights.