Marvel Regains Daredevil Rights by the End of the Year
The mess that is the rights to Marvel's comic book properties is a challenge to unravel. Marvel maintains most licenses for its films, but Spider-Man films belong to Sony. The X-Men and Fantastic Four licenses were just reacquired by Marvel through Fox, and others also remain out of hand. One license, however, may be coming back soon, that being the Daredevil license.
According to the fan-group "Save Daredevil," the license to the street-level superhero may be reverting back to Marvel soon. That license is, of course, currently held by Netflix, which released several seasons of awesome Daredevil action. The license is potentially going to expire and revert back to Marvel in 6 months, or around November 2020.
November 2020 is the date because, according to a clause that's been reported on in the contract between Marvel and Netflix, the license expires two years after the property's cancellation. Since Netflix canceled the Daredevil television show in November 2018, it'll then revert back to Marvel in November 2020.
While that may seem like exciting news to Daredevil fans, there's still no guarantee that Marvel will put its Daredevil license to immediate use. After all, Marvel now has both the Fantastic Four and X-Men licenses back, but it's decided to wait several years before restarting those film franchises. That's just Daredevil's blind luck, it seems.
Source: Screen Rant
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