How complicated rights issues almost kept Namor out of BlackPanther Wakanda Forever — and the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
The rights to Marvel's Namor are almost as complicated as the Sub-Mariner himself. The aquatic anti-hero — created by Bill Everett for the failed pilot issue of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, later widely reprinted in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939 — is under the ownership of Marvel Entertainment and its parent company Disney.
Dating back to 1997 — before New Line Cinema's Blade, Fox's X-Men, and Sony's Spider-Man adaptations took the box office by storm in the late 1990s and early 2000s — Marvel Studios and then-president Avi Arad developed Namor: Sub-Mariner with filmmaker Philip Kaufman. At a time when the rights for such characters as Iron Man and Captain America were scattered across studios like New Line and Artisan Entertainment, respectively, Namor landed at Hulk studio Universal Pictures in 2001.
In 2014, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige told IGN answered"no" when asked whether Universal and Legendary Entertainment could still make Namor. Asked if Marvel Studios could produce a potential Namor movie, Feige said,"Yes, but it's slightly more complicated than that. Let's put it this way – there are entanglements that make it less easy."
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