The possibility of a team-up sounds tenuous at best, especially since Fox’s X-Men movies are already popular in their own right; it’s not as if they’re struggling to create good content, at least not in the way Sony was with Spider-Man. Rather than disrupting the timeline of its own ongoing X-Men saga, the studio might simply agree to a deal for Wolverine (whether played by Hugh Jackman or a new actor in the role) to appear in an upcoming Avengers movie. In an interview, The Hollywood Reporter asked Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Tom Rothman whether the partnership with Marvel includes building a Spider-Man movie universe and if they would be working with Marvel on other projects. X-Men: Apocalypse failed to impress at the box office, and netted the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for the franchise since the unmitigated disaster that was X-Men Origins.
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Earlier this week, Insomniac Games, an American video game developer, took the time to answer many fan inquiries about “Spider-Man PS4” on Twitter. And handing over Mister Fantastic and his friends to the Marvel brains trust is surely the fastest way for Fox to revive the superhero quartet following the abject disaster that was Josh Trank’s misfiring 2015 reboot.
Of the “Fantastic Four” and “X-Men” properties, the former seriously needs some help.
As exciting as it would be to see Cyclops and Jean Grey fighting alongside Captain America and Vision in an epic battle to stop Thanos from wooing Death by destroying life throughout the galaxy with his shiny glove, it would, again, be years from now, and therefore we’d probably be well into Phase 12 or something. Imagine an Infinity War movie that manages to incorporate Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen into the greater narrative?
Future “X-Men” movies too? That’s what Marvel gets for making us wait four more months for Doctor Strange. No, money is what talks, and an MCU with the X-Men would make a whole lot of it.
What do you think of these latest Spider-Man: Homecoming set photos? Tom Holland as Peter Parker was one of the many highlights of Civil War, but the real test will come when Spider-Man: Homecoming hits theaters next summer.
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Key added, however, that it might take a while for this deal to actually get off the ground.
