Marvel (owned by Disney) currently consists of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.); Captain America (Chris Evans); Thor (Chris Hemsworth); the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson); and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) collectively known as The Avengers. There is also the cosmic side to the MCU, which are The Guardians of the Galaxy: Star-Lord (Chris Pratt); Gamora (Zoe Saldana); Draxx the Destroyer (Dave Batista); Rocket Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel).
Marvel's main competition is DC (owned by Warner Brothers). DC heroes include Superman (Henry Cavill) Batman (fomerly Christian Bale and now Ben Affleck); Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot); Green Arrow or just Arrow (played on tv by Stephen Amell, no mention of movie version yet); The Flash (played on tv by Grant Gustin and in the movies by Ezra Miller); Green Lantern (last played by Ryan Reynolds, no mention of a new actor yet); Aquaman (to be played by Jason Momoa of Games of Thrones fame).
Here is where it gets a little confusing. Marvel publishes comics for more characters than they have the movie rights to. Here's the breakdown:
20th Century Fox owns the rights to: The X-Men, Wolverine, Deadpool, and the Fantastic Four
Sony owns the rights to: Spider-Man and all characters contained within the spider-man story lines, including the Sinister Six and Venom.
Disney also owns the rights to Star Wars (next movie to be released
December 2015!!!!) and Indiana Jones. A rumor started to spread that
part of Harrison Ford's deal for the new Star Wars films included
another (or 2 more) Indiana Jones movies in which he passes the torch to
a new actor. That would open the door to a whole new Indy franchise! Very exciting!
The exciting thing here is that every character mentioned will be featured in a movie! Marvel announced their line-up of releases all the way up to 2020, so did Warner Bros. Fox plans on releasing X-Men Apocalypse in 2016 and a rebooted Fantastic Four in 2015, and has mentioned plans for a 3rd Wolverine solo film.
In my honest opinion, I am not at all looking forward to a new Fantastic Four or Wolverine. The reboot of fantastic four seems to be Fox trying real hard to not give the rights back to Marvel and therefore possibly destroying Marvel's first family. (Marvel comics has since cancelled the Fantastic Four comic book and all marketing of the team). I was never that big of a fan anyway, and the other 2 movies were pretty crappy. I don't see the movie doing very well.
As for Wolverine. This situation is just a real shame. I am a HUGE Wolverine fan, and don't get me wrong, I like Hugh Jackman. But not Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Wolverine is a vicious bad ass character, the movie version is way too domesticated. Anyway, all this for another time.
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