‘FANT4STIC’ is still a big part of FOX’s planned films

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Love it or hate it, more Fantastic 4 films are likely on the not-so-distant horizon.

[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]he movie rights to Fantastic Four aren’t ready to be handed back to Marvel just yet. Even after the abysmal performance of FANT4STIC, the movie remains part of a bigger picture FOX has planned.

Screenwriter Simon Kinberg was recently interviewed to talk X-men Apocalypse and Fantastic Four. Here is what he had to say:

“I don’t think that there is, in any movie that doesn’t work, a single decision that is the reason the movie doesn’t work, I think there were many, many decisions we made along the way that led to a movie that people didn’t like and a movie that I would do differently next time. I think the biggest takeaway for me — and there were many takeaways, and this could be a whole other segment — is that the tone of the movie, while interesting, ran counter to the DNA of the source material. The source material of Fantastic Four is bright, optimistic, poppy in tone. There’s sort of a plucky spirit to those characters and we made a darker sort of body horror version of Fantastic Four, which again, even as I say it now, sounds really interesting and cerebrally ambitious…but it’s Fantastic Four. So it’s a lesson that I would learn not just for Fantastic Four but for any movie going forward is to be true to the material.”

Director of the film, Josh Tank has stated that the film is much better when inserting the raw material on its own and that the studio made many alterations to his original vision. When asked, Kinberg responded, “I’m too close and too inside of the process of making that movie to really have perspective on it, to be honest,” and that the future of the Fantastic 4 in FOX’s line of hero films is “a big part of the plan going forward”. As to whatever that plan is, has yet to be seen. But who knows? Once you are at the bottom with a film like 2015’s FANT4STIC, the only way to go is up right?

Do you think this universe deserves a second chance? How long before we see another Fantastic Four movie? What are your predictions? Let us know in the comments below!

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