10 Movie Franchises That Died In 2015

3. Fox's Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Franchise: And finally, we come to the series that everyone wanted to see, that had the makings right there. Fox own the cinematic rights to X-Men, Deadpool and the Fantastic Four, and the hope was that, once the latter two were successfully rebooted, we might see these three enterprises come together in a collective universe. After all, who wouldn't want to see X-Men vs. Fantastic Four and an eventual team-up movie against a re-envisioned Galactus or something? It'd be beyond awesome and seemed like a slam dunk. How It Died: Fantastic Four happened. By now everyone knows what an utter disaster the project was both critically and commercially, and while Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg originally talked about a crossover if the movie was well-received, its failure has firmly put the kibosh on those plans (as well as a proposed 2017 sequel, which becomes less likely with every passing day). Sure, we might still see Deadpool in an X-Men movie (though the PG-13/R ratings clash is an unavoidable problem), but the dream of seeing the two bigger properties merge is dead, at least until Fantastic Four is inevitably rebooted yet again...