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Everyone knows Fox wants to emulate what Marvel did with The Avengers and the individual character films that tie-in into the larger universe. Everyone wants to emulate what Marvel did, because Marvel made $1.5 billion on The Avengers and $1.2 billion on Iron Man 3. Disney’s trying to do it with Star Wars, Sony is doing it with Spider-Man, Venom, and the Sinister Six (the Marvel properties Sony still has the license to), and any day now, Tyler Perry and Nicholas Sparks are going to join forces for the Justice League of religious interracial schmaltz. Now comes a rumor from financial site The Motley Fool that Fox will Avengersize X-Men and The Fantastic Four (the Marvel properties Fox has the license to), based on the 1987 four-issue comic series Avengers vs. The Fantastic Four. Um, sounds cool.
Based on a 1987 four issue comic called Fantastic Four vs. X-Men, the movie will see the characters against each other because of secrets regarding the Fantastic Four’s origin. The new movie also comes as Fox is rebooting the Fantastic Four series with new actors and actresses. The last movie in the series, “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”, came up short at the box office with a gross of $132 million domestically and $157 million in foreign markets. The new reboot is scheduled for release on June 19, 2015. [The Motley Fool ]
Based on everything I said in the first paragraph, yeah, it sounds pretty plausible. Everyone’s copying Marvel, and of course Fox would get in on the act using the Marvel properties they own. The X-Men series is already looking pretty Avengers-y, what with all the time travel and the separate Wolverine movies and everything. The challenge here will be redoing Fantastic Four in a way that makes it, you know, not terrible.
There’s a pretty good summary of the comic book in question over on Wikipedia. I’d try to boil it down for you, but I don’t want to get beard weevils. I wish Bud Light still did those “Real American Heroes/Real Men of Genius” commercials, because “Mr. Comic Book Wikipedia Writer” would be an awesome one.
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Fantastic Four are gonna be a little out-numbered. Hopefully they get the right people working on this.
By “the right people” I can only assume you mean “someone who will slap the suits at Fox and tell them this is not going to work out like you hope it will.”
Fantastic 4 vs. X-Men vs. Goodtaste
I know I’m in the minority when I say this but I really enjoyed the Fantastic Four movies. They are just so stupid it’s charming.
Chris Evans is perfectly cast as Johnny Storm. If they had cast someone else as Susan Storm, they might have been better. Apparently at some point Mrs. Storm was sleeping with the gardener.
The first movie didn’t have a fight scene until the last 15 mins. That’s just not right.
I, too, share your liking of the Fantastic Four Movies.
When the Star Wars vs. Star Trek movie finally happens I think I will finally be able to shit a live kitten.
I hope that Kit Harrington gets cast as Mr. Fantastic as the rumor had it strictly because it will be fun to watch his trajectory versus Richard Madden, who is now leading some train wreck of a Deadwood ripoff on Discovery called “Klondike.” As for this movie, I would assume the two teams are fighting it out over the cant miss year end deals at your local Dodge dealer?
Also – Fantastic 4 is a great example of a Comic Book/Cartoon franchise that really doesn’t need to be made into a feature film. Too cornball. Too dated. It’s one step above the Mighty Heroes.
1. CGI the Thing. As much as we all wanted it to work, the padded costume was just ridiculous.
2. I can’t remember how many Xmen were in that series, but I’d suggest limiting the X-men to the core group of the original Xmovie, perhaps excluding Xavier completely. Keep it tight.
3. Don’t add any characters that weren’t in the original Xmen vs. FF. The only point to doing that would be “cuz it’s k3wl!” and if the series is well done it should already be cool.
4. Don’t go bargain basement on the FF actors. I don’t mind if you pick up-and-comers. Just don’t select someone because they’re a pretty face with no gravitas (I’m looking your way, Invisible Girl–I think. I mean you were there a second ago.)
5. I’m sure Doom has something to do with this. That’s good. Face it, the Mole Man or the Puppet Master just wouldn’t carry a film’s villainy.
Uh-oh. I thought Fox was getting the X-Men franchise back on track, what with First Class being good and Days of Future Past looking promising. This makes me nervous that they’re about to Ratner it up again.
Looks like this is bogus. The website put this above the linked story:
“Note: A previous version of this article inaccurately reported a planned film release that combined both X-Men and Fantastic Four. The Fool regrets the error.”
“The Fool regrets the error.”
Liar! Ratner regrets nothing. Nothing!
As long as you get David Cross to play The Thing.
Get over here, Alicia, the Thing wants a kiss like on Showtime!
That would get all our rocks off.
And daddy really needs to get his rocks off!
Vince, all Xmen news henceforth should simply be this gif: [i.imgur.com]
Very nice name.
Yes, but does it go in?
In other words, FOX is the goddamn devil.
My mom watched Grey’s Anatomy while it was on, and the plots seemed to get more and more crazy as the series went on.
Everything but an atomic bomb was dropped on the main characters and their hospital got taken over by a crazy gunman who killed all of the lesser characters.
It was pretty hilarious.
Every time I want to comment on a comic book movie post I get as far as logging in. Then I realize what I’m doing, and I stop myself.
I just logged in to say ditto.
This is pretty dumb. There are already too many X-Men to fit into one movie anyway. If Fox was smart they’d forget the Fantastic Four and just make individual movies about one or two X-Men. Then occasionally have a moive about the whole team, Avengers style. There are already enough characters in the X-Men universe to go around.