Fantastic 4 rumoured to be back at Marvel.

Strange rumor but did hear last time over at superhero site they were considering to make another one....which makes zero sense !
 
Can't see how they can keep the rights to this franchise after that piece of crap. I didn't see what was wrong with the first two movies. I actually quite enjoyed them.

Just wish the last xmen movie wasn't the best one they had made and the next one looks to be even better. How can you do civil war without all them guys... they are going to be needed soon. Hopefully something to do with phoenix.
 
D1craig said:
Can't see how they can keep the rights to this franchise after that piece of crap. I didn't see what was wrong with the first two movies. I actually quite enjoyed them.
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Yeah, the first two were awesome.



The Silver Surfer and the fourth film not so good of course.
 
I hope we don't get standalone FF movies from Marvel. They should just appear in all of the other franchises. That's kinda what they do in the comics, just show up everywhere.
 
R3X said:
Strange rumor but did hear last time over at superhero site they were considering to make another one....which makes zero sense !
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Even Fox must get fed up of pouring money down the drain making utterly rubbish films that don't get new fans and just anger the existing fans by making massive changes to the characters/setting for the sake of it.

You'd think by now the execs at Fox would have looked at the Marvel films and tried to work out how they were doing so well, then compared them to their own films and the other failed superhero films.

I suspect for example that Marvel don't have the bun fights and constant changing of script/directors and basic ideas behind the film that seems to plague Fox's films (IIRC Marvel have basically been working to long term plans for most of their films, rather than changing major things on a whim constantly).
 
D1craig said:
Can't see how they can keep the rights to this franchise after that piece of junk.
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It's a fairly simple reason, their contracts will state they need to do something with the franchise every X years or forfeit it, it will also likely state that if they do anything with the franchise (no quality or performance clause by the looks of it), they can renew their rights to use it for a set fee.

It's the same with a lot of film/tv licensing deals, especially the older ones and the reason you sometimes see an utter turkey that was obviously filmed quickly and on the cheap get made.
IIRC the recent "Wheel of time" Pilot" (in quotes as I don't for one second believe it was intended to be a pilot episode for anything) I think it was, was a major example of what happens when someone has such a contract, they shot it in secret, paid a TV channel for an infomercial slot to get it on TV and showed it. So they filled the technical requirements of the contract, but it was done in such a way that you could never say they did it in the spirit of what the contract was intended to ensure.
It was done without anyone outside the rights holder and the people involved in the shoot knowing anything about it, and pretty much the ultimate example of exploiting the renewal clause that requires you to do something with the property within a set time.

Fortunately these days a lot of the new contracts (if they're smart) will have things like performance clauses and may have requirements for the primary copyright holder to give approval for certain things.
 
Almost feels like the spiderman madness rumours which turned out true :)

Fox can say x, y, z but you never know FF rights desperately need assistance and spiderman, hulk and avengers are part of that family and already do well money wise its just that fox are too stubborn to do the right thing.

We do have 2 new announced x-men spin of tv series in the works though in Hellfire and Legion tv shows:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/3...n-two-x-men-tv-series-in-development#/slide/1

Here is hoping the marvel/Avengers universe can say the word mutant in the near future ;)
 
FrenchTart said:
Yeah, the first two were awesome.

The Silver Surfer and the fourth film not so good of course.
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i knew someone would point out that i should have meant 2 and 3 not 1 and 2.

but that first wasnt actually known to me until i started looking into the avengers movie series so i thought others wouldnt know it lol.
 
shorttricky said:
Nope, not true

http://comicbook.com/2015/10/15/official-fantastic-four-film-rights-remain-at-fox/

While the film may have been largely panned, it's still made $160m so far on a budget on $120m

I'd imagine Fox would want to at least try an FF/X-Men crossover before they give up on it.
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that surely is a product of the other marvel franchises doing so well and some not knowing that they dont link with the likes of the avengers and the xmen. in the cinematic universes ofcourse. i went because i dont beleive what reviews say, and most of the time i am justified in that IMO.
 
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