After everyone has gotten excited about the idea of Marvel getting the movie rights to several Fantastic Four characters – amongst them the Silver Surfer and Galactus – back from Fox in exchange for a longer window to make a Daredevil movie, anonymous sources from the latter studio have appeared to pour cold water on the rumors:
Reports that Fox and Marvel Studios are going to do some horse-trading with its Fantastic Four franchise to keep Daredevil in the fold were being strenuously denied by studio insiders… Those insiders said that with Josh Trank aboard to direct, Fantastic Four is a big priority and the studio would be crazy to give away a cornerstone villain. Especially when the studio is very lukewarm about rebooting Daredevil, which focuses on blind lawyer Matt Murdock and his emergence as a crime fighter powered by heightened sensory perception.
Of course, this could just be a negotiating tactic… Stranger things have happened, and if Marvel really wants the Surfer and Galactus, it’d be interesting to see what/who else they’d be willing to give up in order to get them…
