The scathing reviews and the turbulence in the reboot of the Fantastic Four is enough reason not to bother merging the film with the X- Men franchise. Nonetheless, Fox is reportedly still planning how they can possible have the X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover movie in the hopes of aping the Marvel Cinematic Universe's success without doing any of the necessary legwork or planning. Here's why it won't work : X-Men And Fantastic Four Are IN Separate Dimensional Universe The Fantastic Four and X-Men are in separate universe. If you put the F4 in the same world as the X-Men, nothing about them would be fantastic. It's a world populated by mutants already with powers. X-Men: Age of Apocalypse was also written with the same mindset, so those are two movies that will do absolutely nothing to lay the foundation for a shared universe. Too Many Characters to Allot Screen Time We have seen this in numerous flick where there is more than a handful of major characters to account for. DC: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice seems to be taking a great risk to involve the likes of most of the main Justice League members including Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Oh yeah, remember we still haven't account for the villains in the Justice League, which will also need adequate development. If Spiderman was castigated for just having three villains, imagine having to much superhero in a film. Indeed, The Avengers: Age of Ultron made an insane amount of cash at this year box office, but not without several harsh criticisms of how under-served many of the characters were and even indications the mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe stretching itself too thin. I wonder what Captain America: Civil War will be like next year. The X-Men movies alone have at least as many characters as Avengers: Age of Ultron. At worst, they double the amount of that, and tossing in four more main characters who will require ample screen time is going to be a virtual impossible juggling act and to establish a balance. This brings me to my next point An Excess Of Superpower Redundcany Which Villain Would They Fight? By the time an X-Men/FF crossover would hit theaters, the X-Men would have already defeated Apocalypse, an all-powerful, nearly god-like mutant. After that, what threat level is limited. Who would they possibly need help with? Even in the comic books, when the X-Men and the Fantastic Four teamed up to fight Doctor Doom, Storm just yelled at him. Literally just yell. Woman Power! Dont get your girlfriend upset. And lets not forget many of the villains are still control by Disney's Marvel. Hence that does not leave much for our heroes to battle. This makes you wish Fox would just give up the rights back to Marvel...sigh. Box Office Failure If you haven’t heard as yet, the controversial reboot of Fantastic Four is an absolute failure at every level. Critically, Fox’s second attempt at franchising Marvel’s founding family of superheroes sits as the lowest scored Marvel-branded movie ever on Rotten Tomatoes, and financially, the box office results for Fantastic Four‘s opening weekend fell far below all early estimates. With critics, fans and financial viability all working against it, what’s next for the Fantastic Four film franchise and the all-too-soon scheduled release date for Fantastic Four 2? The 2005 Fantastic Four installment, which starred Jessica Alba as Sue Storm, Ioan Griffudd as Reed Richards, Michael Chiklis as The Thing and Chris Evans, in his first incarnation of a super-hero, as Johnny Storm, opened to a then-super $56 million, in 3,602 theaters, for $16,700 per. As tickets were $2.20 less expensive then the adjusted take today would be $75.2 milion for the same amount of tickets sold (using NATO's Q2 price of $8.61). Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, the lumbering sequel made $58 million (3,959 theaters, $13,700 per) its opening weekend, which would translate to $72.6 million given today's prices. The lowered per-screen-average expectations of the franchise must be painful for Fox for the $120 million film How is it possibly to mend the broken pieces of the shattered comic adaptation? Joining the two universe would just further exacerbate the situation, creating further loss for Fox. Furthermore, this would even ruin their already precious X- Men reputation which they have fought so hard to become a financial and commercial success. Fantastic Four box office weekend was one of the lowest Marvel film opening ever. The film suffered some of the reprehensible reviews and ratings from critics and fans. It would take some kind of comic book miracles to change the abysmal trajectory of the film. With the box office disaster, it would be pretty ridiculous for Fox to greenlight a crossover between the two. Approving the crossover will only Doom an already successful franchise- X-Men more than it would potentially breathe life into a dying one that couldn't even make it past its first reboot
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Thomas
8/13/2015 08:06:13 am
Interestingly you pointed about the fact of the screentime. Its as though they always think more is best. When will these people learn?
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Matthew
8/13/2015 08:07:26 am
I guess they will never learn
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Stephanie
8/13/2015 09:55:46 am
It was obvious from beginning this would have been Doom as u put it,lol. Fox wanted to eject a movie before they had to return it to marvel. I hope Marvel regain the rights so we can seeing all these stupid reboots
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Shane
8/15/2015 04:15:25 pm
Its never good to rush...cause now they lost big time...smh
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Jason
8/15/2015 04:17:48 pm
Nice Pictures.. that one with the guy crying or angry (whatever he's doing) is quite fascinating!
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donthinkiaintwatchingyou
10/9/2015 06:46:19 pm
Going by what fox been saying, i dont think they have any intention of returning Fantastic 4 to marvel. i assume too much pride to lose and then it becomes a successful franchise under marvel wings
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