Between production and promotion let's say it costs 100 to 150 mil to make a f4 movie. If this doesn't recoup y'all think Fox is gonna go thru it all over again just to stick it to Marvel?
Pride vs Money
- They can keep the rights forever by simply releasing a shytty low budget 'movie' to a handful of theaters every few years, that would satisfy the terms of the agreement. They wouldn't make any money but it would only cost them peanuts. It would just be an F U to Marvel.
- Or they can throw another 150 million at it and hope the 4th time's a charm. Spend big money to try and make big money... but now at an even greater risk to not recoup.
- Or, they can strike out a deal with Marvel like Sony did. Implement the characters to the winning formula and split the revenue.
Easy money would be option 3 imo, with whatever terms of agreement. But if things are too petty between the companies or Fox thinks they can still pull it off dolo...