Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-73.15.195.68-20150828051048/@comment-24891101-20150828234615

Marvel once had financial difficulties, and sold off a bunch of film rights. That's why it was such big news that Spidey is entering the MCU. It's because of the relative failure of TASM2 that Marvel prevailed upon Sony to get them back. That's why you'll never see the X-Men in the MCU, and why they couldn't call Wanda and Pietro mutants or mention their father, and why DoFP had a different Pietro. The film rights to the X-Men and related properties are owned by Fox, as are the FF. This FF film is purely so they can keep the rights. That's also why Sony relaunched Spiderman. Marvel got a bunch of rights back about a year ago, but I'm not sure that Ghost Rider was one of them. Regardless, he'd be difficult to fit into the current cosmology of Earth-199999.