Disney Buying Fox is About Much More Than Movie Franchises

A major media corporation is very close to expanding its already strong media power. CNBC reported that as early as next week, Disney could acquire Fox's television and film studios, which would all but erase Fox from the media landscape.

Disney is already hugely powerful in this area - it owns Lucasfilm and Marvel, which are easily two of the biggest film producing money makers currently in the business. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is immensely popular, but one of the biggest, if not the biggest, oft-lamented aspects of it is that they don't have the rights to Fantastic 4 or X-Men. Buying out Fox would give them the rights to these characters and create new and really exciting possibilities for the MCU.

But the negative outweighs the positive in this case.

If this deal goes through, then there would be a loss of creative control for filmmakers because they would have to stick to the moral guidelines of Disney. Fox is the studio that put out movies like Logan, the Planet of the Apes franchise, and Deadpool. Those are great movies that push the boundaries of the traditional summer superhero blockbuster that we we have become so used to.

But this goes past just superhero movies. This is about the media landscape in America as a whole. It will be more and more difficult for filmmakers to see their own vision come to life on a project when it takes so much funding for a movie to be produced and seen by wide audiences. Independent movies do get made, but a lot of times, they aren't as successful or widely seen, which is why these large movie companies are so important. But at the same time, these companies often interfere with the movie making process and we don't get to see the movie that the filmmaker wanted to make. Instead, we get a safe movie that the company deems acceptable.

This is about so much more than just superheroes. It's about creativity being allowed to flourish.

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