ThaRoadWarrior said: I've heard creators on podcasts who are actively doing comics at Marvel say that certain characters will be off limits for certain books because they are being used elsewhere etc. Interestingly enough, Marvel told Patton Oswalt that they specifically couldn't use Paste Pot Pete and Stilt Man in the MODOK show due to some unspecified rights issues."Marvel was so cool about like, 'Yeah you want Iron Man? Yeah, take Iron Man.' And I was like, 'Oh my God I can't believe Iron Man!' Like the only characters, they said no to were like Stilt-Man and Paste-Pot Pete we tried to have in that episode," Blum tells us.https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/modok-marvel-wouldnt-let-show-use-stilt-man/Without having seen that agreement with MPQ, it seems more likely to me that they just get told who they HAVE to feature as a tie-in to something happening out in the marvel world rather than them going to the character store and buying licenses to specific ones as they want them. Or very possible who they were not to use during certain windows when there was allegedly a moratorium on FF and X-Men tie-in stuff hypothetically perhaps.
dianetics said: Pretty strange Marvel is still suffering from license agreements from 1990. Namor is in the ghost hole as well as the Hulk. I'm sure there are dozens of others that we don't even know about.
DAZ0273 said:It is complicated. Marvel got back the movie rights to Hulk (and Namor) a while back but importantly the Distribution rights to any movies made with those two as headliners are retained by Universal. Disney would lose out on a chunk of change if they made a Hulk movie along with no control over vital issues such as streaming and where it could be shown and how many theatres. It just wouldn't be proftable and apparently neither company can play nicely with the other. So we will have to just look forward to She Hulk for our next Hulk fix unless something shifts a lot.
dianetics said: DAZ0273 said:It is complicated. Marvel got back the movie rights to Hulk (and Namor) a while back but importantly the Distribution rights to any movies made with those two as headliners are retained by Universal. Disney would lose out on a chunk of change if they made a Hulk movie along with no control over vital issues such as streaming and where it could be shown and how many theatres. It just wouldn't be proftable and apparently neither company can play nicely with the other. So we will have to just look forward to She Hulk for our next Hulk fix unless something shifts a lot. Yeah I know what the deal is with Hulk, but Namor is more complicated. AFAIK Namors rights have been more or less lost. Marvel isn't really sure who holds the rights to him so they aren't able to even use his character, unlike Hulk.It would be interesting if Universal decided to make a hulk movie without Ruffalo and then see what happens to the MCU. It is also interesting that Universal has not made a Hulk movie since 2008 and the license has not expired. As such with Spidey after 10 years the license would revert. I am guessing Hulk and Namor had a similar agreement prior to spiderman and x-men.
ThaRoadWarrior said: I would love to find some production footage/design work from that just to see what it would have been like.
Jacklag said: ThaRoadWarrior said: I would love to find some production footage/design work from that just to see what it would have been like. I doubt it.