After a disastrous run in 2015, pretty much all of assumed that FOX would let Fantastic Four stay buried for a while. The film had behind the scenes drama, awful box office returns and terrible reviews from fans and critics in general. It really wasn’t a success in any form, other than by being made, it kept the rights from reverting back to Fox.
So you’d think a sequel would be out of the question, right? Wrong.
While speaking with Den of Geek, producer Simon Kinberg said that a sequel to the 2015 film is definitely still a possibility:
“We didn’t make a good movie,” Kinberg said, “and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can’t make a good movie every time out – not everybody does. We actually have a pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we made many mistakes when we made that movie – mistakes that we learned from and we wouldn’t repeat.”
He added:
“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie. We love that cast – I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate [Mara] and Jamie [Bell] are great actors – we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much as X-Men.”
He also went on to say that the next film, if made, would embrace the comics:
“We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely – well, not completely, but largely – distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.”
Source: Den of Geek
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