Viacom being pressured to sell Paramount

04-12-2016, 08:11 AM

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John Pannozzi

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Originally Posted by d_osborn

Marvel actually sold off the rights much earlier. There were low-budget Spider-Man, Captain America, and X-Men movies in development from around 1985. Still, interesting to think about.

Though the movie rights to Spider-Man reverted to Marvel around 1999, at which point they made their deal with Sony.

Anyway, it seems that Sumner Redstone doesn't want to sell Paramount.

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Originally Posted by El Santo

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Originally Posted by Bergerjacques

It was definitely not a kid's book.

That was the thing that always mystified me about the turn the franchise took when Eastman and Laird licensed the cartoon and the parallel comic book published by the same outfit that gave us Archie. The turtles' original origin story? The whole thing hinges on a for-Christ's-sake rape-murder!!!!

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