Comments on: How Fox Can Continue ‘Fantastic Four’ Without Rebooting The Franchise Again

By: jason

jason — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

"It is hardly more mediocre or trite than Ant-Man or Iron Man 2 that were allowed to make money with blasse reviews. "

Ummmm…IM2 got a 72% on RT, and "A" on CinemaScore, and opened with $128MM. Ant-Man got a 79% on RT, an A- Cinemascore, and opened to $57MM. FF has the WORST Cinemascore of ANY studio movie in HISTORY (C-) per the Hollywood Reporter, and also has the lowest RT score ever for a CBM…and relative to budget, did worse than even Green Lantern or Elektra opening weekend. So…fail.

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Or. They can forget about Fantastic Four 2 entirely, and instead build plans for a much more exciting (at this time) Deadpool 2. Which, apparently, is what they are thinking about right now.

By: Chili

Chili — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

It\’s a curious argument to say that this series is in a better position than Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 might\’ve made the least amount of money in the series but it still made over $700 million worldwide, which is nowhere near where Fantastic Four will land. I\’m not sure if they will give the rights back to Marvel but I would be shocked if they continued with a sequel in 2017.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

The overreaction to this movie is reaching hysteria levels. It is hardly more mediocre or trite than Ant-Man or Iron Man 2 that were allowed to make money with blasse reviews. Every once in a while a movie comes out and critics summer action fatigue explodes its pent-up hategasm all over it. Example:
"Whatever notes of sci-fi body horror Trank may have been looking to put into his movie are completely lost in the final result."

Nonsense. If you can\’t see body horror with Richards and Grimm, you didn\’t watch the movie.

Usually, this doesn\’t annoy me too much, but then a well-made film like The Lone Ranger gets it in the face because Johnny Depp played a Native American and the anger goggles came out.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Fox didn\’t and doesn\’t care about making a good FF movie. They just wanted to make any FF movie before the deadline hit so they could keep the rights. FF doesn\’t sell itself. You have to make a good movie to get a box office draw for FF. it\’s far from being some sort of gravy train and it\’s time for Fox to move on. Sorry, Jason, but you\’re deluding yourself. Ant-Man was a good movie that got solid critic reviews and good moviegoer reviews. Iron Man 2 has its critics but was still a decent movie that a lot of people liked. Go on Rotten Tomatoes, Cinemascore, Flixtser, etc. and compare the numbers for FF. if you look at the reviews from BOTH critics and moviegoers, you\’ll see historically awful ratings on both fronts.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

I actually agree with this article. The film is terrible, there\’s no question about that. But, the cast was really good, and I\’d like to see them reprise their roles with a better script.

By: Arie Katz

Arie Katz — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Make it animated market it to 8 year olds & hire a comic book writer like Mark Aid to write it.

By: Starscream

Starscream — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Fox can keep the rights and the characters for this franchise if they want to. I\’ll just be keeping my cash if that happens. So if there\’s a deal on the table by Marvel then they better take it since that\’s the only guaranteed sum they\’ll get at this point.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

The film is good for an origin story and if you don\’t expect anymore than that then it\’s a good film.
The actingwas great and their origin was more interesting than before.
I hope they make a sequel.

By: JOHNCARTER

JOHNCARTER — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

The last time I recall the hate machine was working all year long against a film was John Carter. That movie was great. So I guess maybe I should go see Fantastic Four, just in case.

By: danno

danno — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

I think its just damage control. Sony said the same thing about Spider-Man and then it took a hack of their servers to actually get them to work with Marvel Studios. Then again, the talks had begun beforehand so I can see the same exact thing happening. Don\’t apologize for this movie and once you agree with Marvel Studios/Disney about co-production pull the trigger. 2019, book it dano.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

I hate to beat a dead horse but with Fox and Fantasic Four, 3 strikes and you\’re out. They should cut their losses and sell the rights back to Marvel like they did with Daredevil and Electra. FF isn\’t the X-Men at at this point it\’s just going to bea money pit for them, they need to cut their losses. Marvel could use the characters as more supporting characters in the up coming Infinity War movies.

By: twin mirror

twin mirror — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Or, they could, you know, do the smart thing and sell the rights back at Marvel where they can actually make a movie with love and care for the source material instead of doing a rushed, cynical rights-grab. Then again Fox has proved to be a stubborn bunch, in which they\’ll pull another steaming pile of feces before the rights revert again; hopefully though the shareholders will use common sense and stop Fox before they do so.

By: Fido

Fido — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Fox should just accept people want to see a Marvel made Fantastic Four movie. Anything from Fox will be discarded as soon as the proper Marvel version comes out.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Perhaps Fox should have the FF in a great and very cool guest role in the next X-men movie…if at all possible. Let all those happy X-Men fans see the FF being done right, if only as a guest role, then move to the sequel. Right now, no one, no where, no how wants to see a sequel to the mess the Fox frakked and Josh tranked.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Anything but another reboot and origin story. The Hulk made a decent attempt (before ceding back to Marvel). Movie 1 an over ambitious mess. Movie 2 a tighter recast B-movie without rebooting the story! The Bond movies are the best example of picking up from lesser entries without the need to restart the story each time.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Give it back to Marvel so it can be cast, written, directed, and produced correctly. Marvel could have them appear in the current universe after being missing since the 1950\’s or 60\’s, when they got sucked into another dimension/universe shortly after they got their powers. No origin story needed, just hit the ground running, sticking to and honoring the source material – unlike this wasted effort does.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

After reading all the horrible reviews about Fantastic 4, I was expecting an absolute trainwreck!! I won\’t say the movie was perfect, I am slightly confused as to why at lest 10 items from the Previews didn\’t even exist in the final cut, it almost makes me wonder if Trank was right, they cut out a lot of his story. You have to understand Guardians of the Galaxy (which I loved) didn\’t exactly follow the comics either, and that got great reviews.. Now I know it\’s not just the Veering off from the comic people have an issue with, it\’s the timing and a large gap in the story, I want more prep between when they just got their powers, to when they mastered them and became heroes. After all that… I actually enjoyed the movie, I went into Jupiter ascending knowing it got the worst reviews ever, and took a chance, hoping to be surprised, but I wasn\’t, Jupiter ascending sucked… But Fantastic four was better than the Wrap it\’s getting, but it feels like it\’s missing about 20-30 min, and every Marvel movie NEEDS an Easter egg after the credits… I wasted 10 min. Hoping for a little snippet.

By: Z

Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Can\’t compare this movie and Ant-Man at all. They are like night and day. Same goes for Iron Man 2 on a lesser extent.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Remember that 20th Century Fox is a business. It would be a bad business decision to make a sequel to a film that they\’re probably going to lose at least $60M on. Plus they\’ll have to convince shareholders that they could make a sequel that can overcome the negative reception of this film and the general brand toxicity of the Fantastic Four now.

By: Frak

Frak — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

JASON, you lost all credit with me when you said, "well-made film like The Lone Ranger".

FF was a very bad movie. I hope they do make a FF2. I hope they do it well. If so, i\’d be happy to see it. I hope we get x-men and spidey is the film as well.

By: Emperor Zerg Rush

Emperor Zerg Rush — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

The cast stays but any and all references to this film need to be ignored entirely. Treat it not like a sequel, not like another reboot but just a separate film that potentially wouldn\’t be complete turds. No grimdark edginess, no pants-less Thing, a Dr. Doom that isn\’t just an insane hipster who got stranded somewhere, no ridiculous and needless time jumps to try and excuse flimsy story building. Don\’t re-invent the wheel just because no one else has bothered to try before – just run with the groundwork and if something needs altering, let it happen in a natural fashion. Seriously, this film shouldn\’t have been the steaming load of disappointment that it turned out to be.

By: Ryan Kadlec

Ryan Kadlec — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:42:02 +0000

Marvel will get the Fantastic Four rights back and to do MCU\’s Fantastic Four in which the origin will be in the prologue scene prior to the opening credits.