This Needs to Happen Now

Of all the people out there in the world, studio executives seem to be the most annoying individuals on the planet. They have the power to put out everything that we see on the big screen. What's worse is that they know they have this power, and they are using it for EVIL. Or rather, they are refusing to use it for the greater good. Sure, they still keep putting out movies like Movie 43 and Resident Evil, but there is one sin of omission that studio executives are guilty of above all, a sin that has people ranging from mildly annoyed to writing blog posts about it. The travesty to which I am referring is they have yet to let this happen:



What is that?
Well, it's a picture of the Avengers.

Yes, but what are Wolverine and Spider-Man doing there?
And so we arrive at my point. Everybody and their mother wants to see Wolverine and Spiderman assemble with the rest of the team, seeing as how in the comics, they are a central part of the Avengers. Hell even the people making the movies want to see it happen. Joss Whedon has gone on record saying he would love to make it, Hugh Jackman wants to be in it so that he can have a fight scene with Hulk, every fan imaginable wants to see it. So why hasn't it happened yet? Disney owns Marvel now, so they should be the one holding all the cards. This should have happened yesterday. Actually, this should have happened two years ago when the first Avengers movie came out. At that point, it wouldn't have been too hard to intertwine the X-Men and Marvel Universe movies together. Today it's damn near impossible now that Days of Future Past has come and knocked the whole timeline on its ass.

So why hasn't it happened?
Well, the keyword is that Disney/Marvel should hold all the cards because they hold the central component, being Marvel comics and the studio. Unfortunately, they don't. 20th Century Fox has the rights for the X-Men franchise and all its characters, while Sony holds the webslinger in its own web. And if you were expecting either studio to play nicely with their most precious toys, you'd have a better time waiting for Justin Bieber to not be a tool. Which really makes no sense because you want a solution? Cause I've got one.

Step 1: Kill Justin Bieber. End of story.

Now, my solution for the Marvel crisis.

Step 1: Sit all three studios in one room, have Joss Whedon, Bryan Singer, and Mark Webb present as well, seeing as how they are the directorial heads of each of the franchises.

Step 2: Disney/Marvel says that they would like the rights to the characters so they can appear in the upcoming Avengers movies, and are willing to pay any price, maybe even have Bob Iger whip out a blank check to display their resolve and willingness to cooperate. Sony/Fox (ideally) agree to it, as long as they can have a share of the profits (which will be vast) and maybe even have their studios' logos appear at the beginning. Sure that would be a long time of just logos, but that's a relatively small price to pay, I think. They also still have the rights so they can still keep making X-Men and Spider-Man movies under their own studio.

Step 3: Have Whedon, Singer, and Webb meet in a separate room to work out a way for their stories to intertwine without becoming a complete clusterfuck.

Step 4: Make the damn movie already

There you go, a four step plan to satisfying all the fans and making a shitzillion dollars. Because there is no way in this or any other universe that an Avengers movie with Wolverine and Spider-Man would make any less. And this plan is way less complicated than the one they concocted to put Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in The Avengers: Age of Ultron, even though Quicksilver has already appeared in Days of Future Past, and will also appear in Apocalypse.

I doubt any studio exec will ever read these words, even though they shouldn't have to read it. They should have figured this out already. But whatever. Who would you like to see join the Avengers, who hasn't already? And please don't be that guy that says Batman, because I will reach through the screen and slap you.