BOOM Edition 3 Jul 2016 Issue | Page 26

REPORT Marvel and Fox Rumored to be in Early Talks for Superhero Collaboration W hen Marvel began producing its superhero movies in-house with Iron Man in 2008, with the intention of launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the excitement was slightly undercut by the realization that so many key properties were in the possession of separate studios like Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Universal. The idea of a massive shared universe where comic book characters would be free to interact with one another and appear in each other’s films – not to mention team up in for billion dollar-grossing all-in entries like The Avengers and this summer’s Captain America: Civil War – has proven to be a domi