Tag: fantastic four

Do I want to sit down and watch the Roger Corman FANTASTIC FOUR?

Roger Corman’s FANTASTIC FOUR is apparently available on YouTube (that’s not the link). On the one hand, it’s pirated. On the other hand, it’s not like I can buy it. This is important because one of my core objections to piracy is that it takes money out of the hands of the people who made the artistic work in the first place. If nobody’s getting paid anyway, well, I do have other objections, but the case is now much weaker.

And on the gripping hand, it’s supposed to be pretty bad. I’m not as in love with really bad movies as I used to be.

Adam Driver as Reed Richards?

Interesting.

Following months of Marvel Cinematic Universe rumors, a new report reveals that Marvel Studios has offered Adam Driver the role of the MCU Reed Richards, should he accept.

According to the latest episode of The Hot Mic Podcast, Above the Line’s Jeff Sneider was asked about recent reports that Driver was being eyed to be the MCU Reed Richards in a Fantastic Four film. Sneider not only confirmed the rumor but noted that from what he had heard, the role had essentially been made his to turn down.

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I’ll believe in a new FANTASTIC FOUR movie when they show me a trailer.

They’re supposed to be filming the new FANTASTIC FOUR in 2024. Which is another way of saying that nobody’s been cast for it yet. Which is good, in its way. If you don’t know who the cast is, you can’t be disappointed by the choices, and/or how they butchered the role.

Sorry, that comes across as bitter. Probably because it is: a decent F4 flick has been teased for decades. Hell, it’s been teased for as long as I’ve been alive. Only, we never got one. Why should now be any different?

The Fantastic Four Curse lives.

Although this is fairly benign: “ Jon Watts has withdrawn as the director of Fantastic Four, the reinvention of the venerable Marvel Comics series at Marvel Studios and Disney. Watts just directed Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film that grossed $1.89 billion to become the sixth highest-grossing film of all time.” Apparently Watts is just ready to take some time off from making superhero movies, given that he spent most of the teens making highly successful Spider-Man flicks for Sony*.

So… back to the drawing board on finding a director for Fantastic Four. …Yay. I’m never getting a good F4 flick, am I?

Moe Lane

(H/T: ComingSoon)

*Don’t know if I blame him, although even I did blame him, he still wouldn’t be able to hear me over the sound of all that MONEY.

#commissionearned

…Clobbering time? 2022 Fantastic Four movie rumors abound.

MoeLane.com cannot confirm, but will eagerly quote, the following:

The GWW is hearing, but cannot confirm, that Marvel Studios is aiming for a 2022 release for the ‘Fantastic Four’ reboot. Sources also say that ‘Ant-Man’ director Peyton Reed is pushing to direct, and has already pitched his vision for the movie to Feige multiple times. Reed’s pitch includes a 1960s setting that involves the Quantum Realm, and possibly The Black Knight.

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Disney-Fox acquisition date set for 3/20/2019.

March 20, 2019. That’s the day Disney takes possession of Fox. Which means that there’s still a faint, hopeless chance that they will go with my idea for the last Avengers: Endgame Easter egg:

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Strong hints of future Fantastic Four flicks in Disney’s conference call.

A very interesting statement here, from the Mouse’s Q3 2018 earnings conference call:

Our strategy is to give the studio what it needs to continue to do what it does best and to also expand the brand’s high-quality storytelling into the DTC space with original television and film projects. 20th Century Fox Film is yet another example. It gives us the opportunity to be associated with and to expand iconic movie franchises like Avatar, Marvel’s X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Deadpool, Planet of the Apes, Kingsman, and many others. We’re obviously very excited to leverage the Fox assets to enhance and accelerate our DTC strategy. But I want to be clear that we remain incredibly supportive and enthusiastic about the movie theater experience. It’s a vital part of our company and in fact, our studio just crossed $6 billion in global box office for the third year in a row.

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Disney makes Fox an offer it won’t refuse?

Maybe: “Walt Disney Co. raised its offer for 21st Century Fox Inc.’s entertainment assets to $71.3 billion, outbidding Comcast Corp. in a battle for one of the media industry’s biggest prizes.” Bloomberg also notes that “Disney also plans to take on about $13.8 billion of Fox’s net debt. That would lift the total transaction value above about $85 billion.”  Couple that with the suggestion that Disney may be clearing regulatory hurdles, and it looks like the Disney/Fox merger is a couple of steps closer.

Which leads to the important question: how long will it take for Marvel to create an ends credit scene for the next Avengers flick that looks like this?

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Kevin Feige: Naaaah, no Fantastic Four in the MCU any time soon. Nope. Unh-uhh.

Not a chance of it happening.  Swamp gas reflecting off of Venus.  Fer sure. Kevin Feige is absolutely saying that:

“No, because any of that deal would take a while to get going and years from whenever and if ever it happens. So, certainly it won’t impact the five movies we’ve announced, and it probably wouldn’t impact anything for a handful of years after that. Because really, we’re not thinking about that. We’re thinking of delivering on what we promised. Any movie, especially for any characters we don’t have the rights to yet until someone tells us we do, would be even further after that.”

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