While I like the idea of having all SW movies under one roof and finally incorporating the Fantastic 4 and the X-Men into the MCU, I think you guys should watch John Oliver’s video on corporate consolidation to understand why Disney buying Fox scares me. I personally don’t like the idea of one company owning such a huge chunk of the entertainment industry, plus it would leave us with only five major movie studios: Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers.
The idea of Disney owning almost everything like it a giant Weyland-Yutani corporation is of course disconcerting. I understand that. I really do. But the vague, remote, even wish possibility of the OUT getting remastered is really clouding my judgement here.
I was a big fan of early FF run and the '60’s Hanna-Barbera animated version.
Good luck finding the HB version 😦. I understand the historical importance of the early comics, but old Stan Lee books are really hard for me to get into.
Keep in mind they’re not getting any Fox television or cable networks in this deal. All Disney gets is the studio and the film library, which is arguably the crown jewel in all of this.
Which raises other questions about what level of treatment Disney would give many Fox films, what’d happen to the archive series, etc.
Fox said no, Marvel got DD back, and we got Fan4stic.
That title is immensely offensive to the English language. I would sort of like a Heart of Darkness type documentary about what really went down on that set and in that editing room though. There’s not really a good movie in there anywhere trying to get out, but it does have a small number of interesting bits, and Trank was a really interesting choice on paper.
It may also include a proper Buffy remaster and a continuation of Firefly.
I think we’ll see a remaster of the theatrical version of THX 1138, Hong Kong action cinema getting treated well on video, the theatrical cut of The Warriors in HD, before we see either of those. Incidentally, do they also own the rights to Angel?