Amph Official "Fantastic Four" Reboot(s) Thread

I wonder what made them change their mind though, reaction to the cast?

 

Reality probably seeped in. While Fox were thinking of how they could give a bigger middle finger to Marvel studios, the quiet guy at the back of the boardroom who had been ignored the entire time started giving them statistics that supports the notion that its destined to flop, and flop hard.

 

Wasn't Mark Miller a consultant on all Fox projects? Or was that just X-Men? If he was on F4, jeeze...

 

http://www.digitalspy.ca/movies/new...c-four-black-human-torch-would-be-tricky.html

He faded out of the spotlight after that interview. Fox have him on a leash

 

Trank just deleted his twitter.

 

Other tweeters are saying its not true by sources close to the studio, but they would say that wouldn't they.

 

BC added: "Bleeding Cool suggests that if Fox really would like to stomp on the rumour, they stop approaching folk to replace the director."

Doesn't sound good.

 

I think it's done like dinner. Pretty much every rumour about this film was denied and then made to be true.

 

So, I have a theory. This is truly tin-foil hat stuff, no basis, but still could explain this.

Let's say, Fox was carrying on with a Fantastic Four reboot as they were doing and that line of the business was going forward, with Josh Trank, getting an Oscar-nominated actor through friendship-nepotism with the directory, everything's good.

Let's also say that the other side of the business, the one that heard from Kevin Feige and Joss Whedon that they'd be willing to entertain the notion of some level of involvement for a 2018 Avengers film, featuring The Infinity Gauntlet storyline, as far back as 2013, along with Daredevil and other Fox properties had been working on something totally secret along those lines, lining up all of the ducks in a row, without interference from the other side...

Then let's imagine what would happen if the two streams then crossed ("don't cross the streams, Ray...") and one side realized that the other side was rebooting "youngster FF" into potentially a crossover with adult-aged men and women...

Might get some things reconsidered?

 

Well, that terrible Justice League movie was stopped before it went too far. Killing it now would be the wisest move. I think they floated Jordan and thought it would work. Then the plot synopsis leaked and fans went nuts. Then the cast is revealed and fans start to put two and two together and suddenly a black human torch is the very least of their worries.

Also, isn't Jordan rumored for Episode 7? If there is any truth to that perhaps it has affected his involvement in this movie. But hopefully fox has realized they have a dud. They would be better off to dump FF and put Deadpool in its place. The X franchise alone can be milked for years. They really do not need Fantastic Four. They should sell it back to Marvel and focus on X-Men.

 

If we ask Fox for a Deadpool movie, they'll respond by giving us a Wolverine movie and having a 2 minute Deadpool cameo played by Shia Labeouf, which will ultimately get cut out of the film to make room for more Wolverine scenes.

 

I said it was a tin-foil hat thing! It's not like I'm asking for Kate Beckinsale...

 

People keep watching the Wolverine movies. You can't blame Fox for catering to demand.

 

The last Wolverine movie was pretty good. It was also the first Wolverine movie right? No abomination about his origins exists?

 

There's been a huge demand for a Deadpool movie for years now, with Reynolds eager to reprise the role and do it justice this time, but they lack the balls Marvel has. Marvels doing Guardian of the Galaxy for crying out loud

 

Not that I've heard, dp4m.

 

I take it that the studio's insistence on centring the plots of all the other X-films (except First Class) around Wolverine is also based on his popularity. So there is that. You know they must have focus-grouped that ****.

 

It still exists. "Days Of Future Past" alludes to it. But they were never planning to pick up directly from "Origins", even before the film came out.

 

Well this wouldn't be the first FF film to be cancelled completely.

 

Nowadays, everyone's an Avenger or an X-Man.

 

IF, the rumors are true and Fox can't get this off the ground and they let the rights go back to Marvel (I don't see that happening), I would hope that Marvel's attempt would actually forgo the origin.

I don't think we need it. They could seriously give us the origin in some sort of quick media recap. Since the FF are famous, it's easy for some fake news/entertainment program to briefly fill in the audience about the FF and breeze right past it. Then we could actually get something new and hopefully get some new villains who are maybe pawns of Doom or something. That would be far more entertaining. My biggest complaint about Amazing Spidey was having to sit through the origin again. Much as I love Martin Sheen, he didn't even get to say the line. So it really was a waste of time. That movie could easily have started at the young Peter stuff and then go straight to Ben's funeral and a few quick flashbacks about how he got bit would be enough for the audience. Would have given a lot more time for Connors and the Oscorp stuff. Sure we'd lose some of the bullying and Gwen stuff, but I'm not sure that's a terrible loss.