Disney owns Marvel and has control over most of their heroes, leaving Sony and Fox to hold on to their respective Marvel properties with a firm grasp. Joss Whedon helps oversee the direction over at Disney, and Mark Millar does the same over at Fox. Now, Fox has hired X-Men: Days Of Future Past and Star Wars: Episode VII writer Simon Kinberg to a three-year deal, where he will be tasked to expand the X-Men and Fantastic Four Universes.

Kinberg was already a writer and producer of both X-Men: Days Of Future Past and the Fantastic Four reboot, so the news of the hiring shows how much faith Fox has in his work. In addition to his new workload, Kinberg is also writing the aforementioned Star Wars: Episode VII, the Star Wars spinoff films, and is executive producer on Star Wars TV series Rebels; he is also a producer on Disney’s Cinderella, and Neill Blomkamp‘s Chappie.