A week ago, Fantastic Four Writer Says Fox Is ‘Figuring Out’ A Sequel. The response from Chris Aaronson is kind of shocking giving the colossal flop the Fantastic Four Movie endured. Why then would the person who wrote this version of Fantastic Four, who also produced it and reportedly helped oversee re-shoots, be in charge of developing its potential sequel? Nobody wants more of this. The financials, the fan response, and the critical response all made that clear. And can Kinberg really focus on Fantastic Four when working on three X-Men films coming out next year, not to mention Star Wars Rebels and a Star Wars Anthology film? There are characters in the Fantastic Four who absolutely have a place on the big screen, but there’s little interest in another big screen story of Doctor Doom fighting the Fantastic Four again. That doesn’t work and it’s a shame given that Doom, one of the great villains of any comic, has been poorly adapted twice. The core issue remains: FF on their own at Fox are just not fit for the current climate of comic book movies. That being said, Reed Richards as a character, so intelligent and so driven by ambition that he becomes the ultimate villain of sorts in the Ultimate Marvel Comics universe is an amazing character… but only if he’s in stories involving other Marvel characters he needs to interact with – characters Fox does not have access to. The same goes for Doctor Doom who in the most recent Marvel Comics crossover event, the biggest ever in “Secret Wars” is the King of the remaining universe. But that universe features The Avengers, Doctor Strange as his Sheriff, and an army of Thors as his police force. Again, the big stories from the comics require access to the larger universe, not the little one Fox has the rights to outside of their mutants (X-Men). Every conversation about the long-term viability of the Fantastic Four as a live-action film property will lead to the same conclusion: Fox needs to work with Marvel. And they should. That doesn’t mean Fox should sell the rights back when there’s value in owning them, but if Sony Pictures can partner with Marvel Studios to reboot Spider-Man and use his supporting characters to bolster the Marvel Cinematic Universe and vice versa, why can’t Fox and Marvel do the same? It would solve a lot of issues and perhaps even give Marvel Entertainment reason to start making Fantastic Four comics and toys again
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