Universal And Sony Also Interested In Buying Fox, Could Conceivably Combine X-Men And Spider-Man Universes
By Ben Pearson/Nov. 20, 2017 1:30 pm EST
But hey, while Hollywood as we know it enters into a possibly unrecoverable downward spiral, at least we might get to see some unexpected comic book movie crossovers! X-Men and Spider-Man in the same movie, anyone?
Okay, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about some of the comic-book movie results that could come from these potential deals. Universal currently doesn’t have any major comic book movie properties under their umbrella, so aside from the possibility of Bruce Willis’ superhero character from Unbreakable and Glass meeting up with the X-Men (which, to be clear, wouldn’t make any sense in the Unbreakable/Split/Glass universe and would also be dumb), there’s not much on the table there.
Speaking of contracts, there’s an aspect to this situation that I hadn’t considered until today. We received the following e-mail from a reader:
