On the heels of the announcement Disney would be acquiring Marvel Entertainment for a spectacular $4 billion, 20th Century Fox Entertainment has hit the press with their own Marvel-related news. Fox is planning on releasing another movie remake based on the popular Marvel franchise Fantastic Four.

The Fantastic Four, Photo: 20th Century Fox

While Disney has gained a huge chunk of the assets of Marvel Entertainment, Fox holds the rights to the Fantastic Four movie franchise for as long as they wish to continue putting out films based on the characters. The new Fantastic Four film will be helmed by producer Akiva Goldsman and penned by Heroes co-executive producer Michael Green.

So far it is unknown whether Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and the other stars of Fox’s original Fantastic Four film and sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer will return for the third unnamed movie.

Fox also owns film rights to the classic Marvel franchises X-Men, Daredevil, Spider-Man and Silver Surfer. Currently the studio is in the works on a sequel to their X-Men: Wolverine spinoff and possible additional sequels and spinoffs to Fox’s original X-Men film.

Disney has insured they can make endless superhero movies ad nauseum by announcing their buy of comic giant Marvel Entertainment for a whopping 4 billion this week. Disney thinks the price tag is well worth it to acquire Marvel Entertainment’s assets.

“You can’t expect to pay a bargain price for premium assets,” Disney’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs said during a press conference call. “Marvel is worth more inside Disney than outside Disney.

With the company’s acquisition of Marvel, Disney gains the rights to make endless silly movies about such legendary icons as Iron Man, Spider-Man, The X-Men and more. Or, maybe not.

Marvel Entertainment already has long-term deals in place with rival studios Sony, 20th Century Fox and Paramount for some of their most popular characters, such as The X-Men and Iron Man. So it may be that Disney will have to resort for the time being to mining some of Marvel’s lesser known heroic characters for material. How about a thrilling summer blockbuster about Nellie the Nurse?

One of the funniest responses to come out about the deal comes from comic writer Brian Lynch on Twitter: “First Disney/Marvel collaboration: Hanna Montana refuses to reveal secret identity, goes to war with Iron Man.” Or, maybe even better, “Donald Duck and Howard the Duck just met at Chateau Marmon to work some shit out.”

Keep ‘em coming Brian.