fox's fantastic four reboot

[ZariusTwo]

Just read on the twitter feed of Nerdpocalypse that FOX are sending out a survey to determine the next course for the Four

[NinjaPug]

I'm really curious to see what happens with the F4 going forward.

I wish I knew all the details about their film rights. I think Constantin Films (did the Corman film) technically owns the rights to the characters forever. They have been leasing the rights to Fox for some time thanks to a deal with Marvel 10-15 years ago.. I think there is a stipulation that Fox has to make a movie every 7 years or the rights will be leased to Marvel.

[TigerClaw]

Fox can just continue with there own cinematic universe with the X-Men movies, they got Deadpool coming out, and then X-Men: Apocalypse after that.

I remember reading about a year ago, That they wanted to do an X-Force movie, and Deadpool was part of that team.

Fox can make a cinematic universe based on all the X-Men spinoff comics. Such as Excalibur X-Factor, and Alpha Flight to name a few.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

X-Factor. Ooh, yes! I want to see Jamie and crew in a movie! And not that crap version of him from X3. Monet, Guido, Siren, Wolfbane, Layla.... Yes, please!! (But only if Peter David writes the script.)

[TigerClaw]

Fox is also planning the Gambit movie. there has been some news about one of the female leads for it.
http://nerdist.com/gambit-movie-narr...ree-actresses/

[Foombamaroom]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Fox is also planning the Gambit movie. there has been some news about one of the female leads for it.
http://nerdist.com/gambit-movie-narr...ree-actresses/

*Sees this*
Oh no.

[Autbot_Benz]

http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-f...killed-comics/

The Cast of the new Film gets killed in this Punisher Comic. Ultimate Troll move by Marvel

[TurtleTitan97]

Troll move? Maybe. But awesomely hilarious? Oh absolutely!

Also, according to the date of the article, this is from last year.

[NinjaPug]

Even lower than originally projected:

“@ERCboxoffice: Fantastic Fail! Fox's FANTASTIC FOUR reboot was rejected scoring just $26.2M in its 2nd place debut.”

[TLP]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...news/?a=123784

Apparently, they're still not giving up the F4 film rights.

[Leo656]

I can't find it right now, but I read an interesting article yesterday that speculated on what might happen if Marvel did get the F4 rights back, or X-Men, or what have you. It raised some interesting points, the biggest being, there's only so many resources to go around, and if Marvel Studios had the rights to F4 and/or X-Men, then you don't get an Ant-Man movie. You don't get a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Basically, if Marvel was able to make movies with all of their "big", established characters that people already know and care about, that's all they'd ever do because there's more money in it than making "risky" movies with lesser-known characters.

It was an interesting point. I'd be fine with it, personally, because nobody really cared about those smaller characters before their movies came out, anyway, and I'd rather see Good Movies with the characters people already like, who haven't been treated quite right by their handlers so far. I mean, I care equally as much for F4 as I do for Ant-Man - "Not Really" - but if you ask most people what they'd rather see, a Good F4 movie or a good Ant-Man movie, all else being equal F4 wins.

It was an interesting point that a lot of people may not be considering in their "Just give everything back to Marvel" approach. I agree, it'd be better on the whole, but a lot of the smaller, quirkier movies people are liking right now probably wouldn't get made, and that's something to consider.

[Bry]

This is glorious.

I don't want to read too much into two examples. But in short order, we've seen Pixels and Fantastic Four, two movies that took a wet dump on the geek/nostalgia properties they were using and the audiences that love them, majorly underwhelm at the box office. And it seems that was mostly due to awful reviews and word-of-mouth. It's a lot to hope for, but... I'm just praying that audiences have finally had enough of this crap.

Imagine if BayTurtles had gotten a similar reception a year ago? They'd have been talking a ground-up, maybe Mirage/IDW-inspired reboot the following Monday.

[TurtleTitan97]

Originally Posted by TLP

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...news/?a=123784

Apparently, they're still not giving up the F4 film rights.

https://40.media.tumblr.com/5f789443...t8o4x1_540.png

If they are seriously thinking they can salvage the Fantastic 4 after this mess, they really would be idiots.

It's only a matter of time before they give in.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Bry

Imagine if BayTurtles had gotten a similar reception a year ago? They'd have been talking a ground-up, maybe Mirage/IDW-inspired reboot the following Monday.

You're right. Too bad that by and large, TMNT fans are less discerning and more likely to accept anything and everything with the TMNT logo on it, and thus less likely to demand actual quality in their works.

You're right, though, it'd be nice.

[oldmanwinters]

Aw, well, maybe Fox can make a little of its money back with a DVD release of both the theatrical release and the "director's cut" ala Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut.

[Leo656]

Pretty good Spoiler review. I hadn't happened upon anything yet that spelled out the entire movie. Gods, this looks/sounds even worse than I'd ever imagined.

http://news.yahoo.com/em-fantastic-f...202142980.html

No matter what the director says, I see nothing in that which could have been "saved". It's awful and misguided on every single level. No "director's cut" could fix any of that; they gave it to the wrong people, same as TMNT. Simple as that.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Pretty good Spoiler review. I hadn't happened upon anything yet that spelled out the entire movie. Gods, this looks/sounds even worse than I'd ever imagined.

http://news.yahoo.com/em-fantastic-f...202142980.html

No matter what the director says, I see nothing in that which could have been "saved". It's awful and misguided on every single level. No "director's cut" could fix any of that; they gave it to the wrong people, same as TMNT. Simple as that.

I'm always interested in seeing cuts of movies which were substantially different, even if it rarely makes the film qualify as "good." The Daredevil and Superman II: Richard Donner Cuts were both alright, and I'd really love to see what would have become of the TMNT 2014 prior to the reshoots.

[chrisdude]

Even though the movie was a collossal flop, why give the property away. If Fantastic Four has potential for Marvel Studios, is has potential for Fox. It's not like Fox is one person. They can hand the next movie to an entirely different creative team. Marvel might be able to make a better movie, and they might be able to make a higher earning movie. But it's all relative. If Fox thinks they can make a profitable sequel, spinoff, reboot or crossover, there's no reason to sign the property over to someone else. People talk like Fox is gonna hand FF back out of the goodness of their hearts, like, "This is what's best for the property. We just can't handle it."

[TurtleTitan97]

That's a pretty big IF though. If they can't even get them right after 3 times, they don't deserve to hold onto the rights.

But that's just my opinion.

[THGhost]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Don't even bother. You'll be better off.

I enjoy watching bad movies. I just don't enjoy paying for them.

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Nope. Odd, but I don't recall one in DoFP, either. Maybe he's not doing them anymore.

Nope, nothing in DoFP. He was in Ant-Man though and he's gonna be in Deadpool too.