Kinberg/Fox : Still desire to make F4 Sequel w/ same cast

[EzekelRAGE]

Fantastic Four: Simon Kinberg wants same cast for “brighter” sequel

Exclusive: producer Simon Kinberg says another Fantastic Four movie is still alive at Fox, with the same cast and a “brighter” tone.
Mired by rumours of behind-the-scenes problems and released to a hostile response, 2015’s Fantastic Four was far from the franchise reboot Fox wanted. Indeed, the removal of Fantastic Four 2 from the studio’s schedule (it was once slated for the summer of 2017) might suggest that a sequel’s out of a question.

According to producer and co-writer Simon Kinberg, however, there’s still appetite for a sequel at Fox - even if they have gone back to the drawing board for now. When we brought the subject of Fantastic Four 2 up at the junket for X-Men: Apocalypse, Kinberg made no secret of his feelings about the 2015 film and its dramatic departure from the comics.

“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.”

At the same time, Kinberg said that the desire to make another Fantastic Four at Fox still remains - and with the same core cast of the last film:

“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.”

If it happens, the next Fantastic Four movie would, Kinberg adds, be closer in tone to the comics - so far less of the Cronenbergian body horror than we got in Josh Trank’s reboot.

“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.”

At this stage, it’s far from clear whether another Fantastic Four film will happen, though Kinberg seems upbeat about its chances.

“We're working really hard on figuring that out,” he said. “Nothing would make me happier than the world embracing a Fantastic Four movie.”

More on this as we get it.

Part of me wants to think this is a long con to put the rumor of Marvel gettin rights to F4 back to rest. But at this point, maybe it's never gonna happen.

Would be fukked up if MBJ and the rest of the cast are forced back for the sequel due to contracts.

I imagine the sequel will come just in time to stop the rights from going back to Marvel.

 

[TKOK]

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

4th times the charm, right? Because a brighter tone would sort out the struggle CGI, shytty script and yet another terrible Doom. And someone is getting paid at Fox to ensure the company loses money by making this.

Enough already

 

[Jello Biafra]

If they were to find a decent writer and director then there is no reason why they couldn't make a good FF movie.

 

[Days of Future Piff]

They need to sell it back to Marvel. Or at the very least, swallow their pride and go read the actual Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run in the comics. John Byrne's run too. at these executives thinking they're so much smarter than the source material.
Fantastic Four could be a dope movie if done right-- it was the series that cultivated the Marvel Universe as we know it. The Skrulls, The Watcher, The Silver Surfer, Galactus, Doctor Doom all originated within the pages of the FF*. They were the first superheroes that weren't perfect and felt closer to actual people, and no one had ever before seen a comic with the level of scope that Lee/Kirby FF had. That and Silver age Spider-man are hands down the most important comics in the history of Marvel, if not the entire medium. (and I'm saying this as an X-men stan.)

(*Note: T'challa and the Inhumans first appeared in their FF run too, but Fox doesn't have their rights)

 

[EzekelRAGE]

If they were to find a decent writer and director then there is no reason why they couldn't make a good FF movie.

I agree with that and that is what I thought they were doing with this reboot, but screwed it up badly. If they actually plan on this being a real franchise and not just hold on to it to screw with Marvel they have to go with another reboot imo. They can't use the same cast since Trank's/Fox reboot left a very bad taste in ppl's mouths.

Has there been a situation where the first movie was critically panned AND a financial bomb but the sequel managed to do a 180 and revive a franchise? (w/o a reboot and using the same main cast)

 

[Norrin Radd]

The Marvel tone is PERFECT for Fantastic Four.