"Yes, Fantastic Four 2 Is Still Going to Happen" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Aug 2015 9:24 p.m. PST |
"Once upon a time in Marvel comic book mythology, there was something called a No-Prize. No-Prizes were awarded to fans who not only pointed out a particular mistake in a story, but then came up with a plausible (or at least entertaining) explanation as to why it wasn't actually a mistake at all. Watching Fantastic Four last weekend, I decided to be charitable and imagine that the entire movie wasn't actually a mess of abandoned plots and absent character motivations, but instead the first superhero movie to be constructed entirely out of reasons for fans to win No-Prizes. Please don't take that away from me as you read the following round-up of the past week's superhero movie news. SUPER IDEA: If, at First, You Don't Succeed… Sorry, haters: Despite an astonishingly unimpressive opening weekend, plans for a FF follow-up are still in motion. Given that a sequel won't have to pretend that Miles Teller is in high school and might even be allowed to have a plot, this isn't the worst idea in the world. Why this is super: Sure, Fantastic Four is a dramatic flop in terms of box office, but let's be honest: It's more of a weird misfire than an outright train wreck of a movie. (Somewhere, there has to be a cut of this movie that contains all the scenes explaining what Doom was actually trying to do, beyond "be a bad guy.") If Michael B. Jordan agrees to return, the SFX guys make a Thing that looks more like Jamie Bell, and someone lightens up the tone a bit, why not try a second go-around?…" Full text here link Amicalement Armand |
GypsyComet | 13 Aug 2015 10:15 p.m. PST |
The only reason a sequel makes more sense than another reboot is that we don't have to sit through the origin story *again*. |
Patrick R | 13 Aug 2015 11:43 p.m. PST |
It's highly unlikely that Fox will give up the rights, even if the film flopped if only to prevent someone else from making even a single dime, a practice not unheard of in Hollywood. Even so Marvel has an already busy schedule with their own films, adding the FF would mean having to wait several years before the opportunity arises, so even if the rights revert to them, it's going to be hard to exploit them properly. One idea that has been put forward would be to have Fox, Sony and the others "share" the characters under their portfolio with Marvel and have them appear in the MCU. Of course this means breaking down all the copyright barriers movie execs have spent years defending to the death "It's mine, mine and mine only and you can't have any of it because I want to squeeze out ever last cent." Sony seems to be interested in the idea with Spider-Man, allowing him to appear in Avengers, but where Fox is standing is up for speculation. |
Deucey | 14 Aug 2015 4:46 a.m. PST |
What did you actually get for the no prize? They kept it secret. |
20thmaine | 14 Aug 2015 5:07 a.m. PST |
As I've said elsewhere – I was pleasantly surprised by Fantastic 4 : having heard it was an outright disaster I thought it hung together pretty well as a SF adventure movie. The superhero bit with Doom at the end (about 10 minutes) seemed to have been cut by about….10 or 20 minutes : it's not a long film at 100minutes (which time, let's recall, includes the ~5minutes of credits at the end!). On the whole though I'd be glad to see this team again. |
RavenscraftCybernetics | 14 Aug 2015 10:07 a.m. PST |
this is still my favorite ff series. link |
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