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Den of Geek is reporting that the rights to Fantastic Four are coming back to Marvel at long last.
There have been no shortage of efforts to bring the Fantastic Four to the movie theatre, and all have resulted in flaming wreckage. While Fox has the film rights to the X-Men franchise, Marvel still had the TV rights to the characters, meaning FOX couldn’t produce an X-Men TV series without Marvel’s involvement.
The Hellfire Club is best known as a group of superpowered mutants who often target the X-Men in battle. David is the son of Charles Xavier. The television rights for the X-Men have been an issue between the companies for years, which Vulture notes is likely the reason why no spin-off series has been attempted up to this point.
Comic book conspiracy theorists might also take note that this means a division of 20th Century Fox is working with Marvel on a project with one foot potentially in the X-Men cinematic universe. Loeb is head of Marvel TV. Which, if true, could greatly change what is being planned for Avengers: Infinity War Part I and Avengers: Infinity War – Part II.
Technically, “Fantastic Four 2” is still on the schedule for 2017, but the prospects of that actually happening seem dimmer by the day.
As a result, you can appreciate why they’d rather launch a bunch of potentially very successful TV shows instead of trying and failing to revive the franchise with a sequel or a crossover with the X-Men which runs the risk of tainting that far more popular series. Ideally that would bypass spending half the film on another origin story, while dropping them into a new world filled with Avengers and aliens.
Lets take this new rumor with a grain of salt for the time being until we can get more concrete information, but it certainly makes sense. The Fantastic Four 2 was already given a June, 2017 release date.
You probably don’t need us to tell you that Marvel and Fox have never worked together in this way before. None of these new claims have been confirmed by anyone at Marvel, Disney or 20th Century Fox.
This past August’s film vehicle for the Fantastic 4 was, in a word, disastrous.
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Fox’s recent Fantastic Four was a huge flop at the box office only generating $166 million with poor reviews including a dismal 9% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Is Reed Richards and family back at Marvel?
