As a result, Marvel Studios reportedly offered them a deal: Fox could hold on to the Daredevil rights in exchange for giving up both Silver Surfer and Galactus.
The rumor in question here first popped up during the summer of 2012, a few months after the smashing success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers.
At the time, according to trade reports, 20th Century Fox still held the rights to Daredevil, and while they were trying to get a film project off the ground in order to retain those rights, things were moving a bit too slow.
At the time it was said that the deal didn’t go through because Fox was actively developing Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four and they didn’t want to harm the potential of that franchise — but now Kevin Feige is saying that the offer was never actually on the table in the first place.