Over the years, Daredevil, The Punisher and Ghost Rider have all had movie outings before the MCU’ s creation, and it took a while for Marvel to regain the rights to these and some other characters that had been sold out over the years before the company decided that they should really be putting out their own movies, and when they did, it seems that there was never an option for Kevin Feige to bring these character into his expanding world as Marvel Entertainment instead made sure that Marvel Studios had no access to them.
The book continues, “The film side had no control over those characters, despite their interest in developing them.
Marvel Studios are overseeing both the movie and television releases and have had a runaway success since launching their TV arm on Disney+ with WandaVision.
That didn’t mean that Feige didn’t want to get his hands on the characters, as Marvel Studios did request to have the characters made available but were in fact turned down.