The found footage strands of Chronicle might just be making their way into Fantastic Four, Fox confirms...
In just under a year, the reboot of the big screen Fantastic Four series will have been released, and we'll be able to see just how director Josh Trank and his team have done. The film's currently shooting, and 20th Century Fox's president of production, Emma Watts, has been talking about it in a new interview.
On backing Chronicle director Trank to make the film, she said that "to me, the key is the originality of the filmmakers and the choices they make. Josh is another really interesting example, who is using the vision he gave us in Chronicle to reinvent a franchise he's loved his whole life. It's not that you can't make original ideas - you can, and we did it with Chronicle. The director is the key to not letting superhero movies go stale".
When questioned if there may be the found footage elements in Fantastic Four that Trank deployed so well in Chronicle, Watt said that "it's Josh, so it can't not have that feel. That's his talent, that what he does, and that's what excites him about it".
Watt also confirmed that the plan is for Bryan Singer to direct 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse.
Fantastic Fouris in cinemas on June 19th 2015. Read our quick guide to the film right here.
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I can't wait until this movie flops and the rights get sold back to Marvel who will treat the franchise with the respect it deserves.
It won't flop...it will make sick profits like the other ones.. Because people are dumb.
It just occurred to me last night that there is no way to have a fight between the Hulk and the Thing in a movie...such BS and the Marvel execs who sold the film rights of so many of their best characters..."in perpetuity"...should be shot.
Marvel was bankrupt when they sold their properties. If they had not sold them, Marvel could have closed. The odds of Marvel getting back their properties are much higher than if Marvel was forced to close shop permanently. You wouldn't even have new Thing or Hulk stories.
First of all, even if the movie did flop, that doesn't mean they will sell it right back to Marvel. If it did, it would take a year or two and would cost Marvel quite a fair bit of cash, but if they didn't buy it out then we would have to wait, the only way it could revert back to Marvel is if Fox doesn't make anymore FF movies. And, ignoring all this, if it did somehow make its way back to Marvel, they already have movies planned out until 2028 (rumors but still) I am sure they would fit a FF in there somewhere but there are other movies I would prefer to see on the big screen, Hulk v The Thing? Hell yeah but, as I said before, there are other movies I would prefer to see. One's that haven't been made before.
These are the kind of asinine decisions that nearly killed the genre in the 90s. Yes, this is right up there with Bat-nips.