10 Movie Franchises That Were Robbed Of An Ending

2. Fant4stic

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The Tim Story Fantastic Four movies from the mid-2000s were inoffensive yet uninspired, but by 2015, they would retroactively be made to look a hell of a lot better.

The 2015 reboot, which boasted an impressive cast on paper, will always be in the conversation for the worst comic-book movie of all time. Certainly, that is suggested by its abysmal 9% Rotten Tomatoes score. Its audience score isn't much better at 18%, even though Fox had such high hopes before its release.

The Fantastic Four movies certainly never lived up to the property's potential from the source material, and so building a universe around them seemed like a good opportunity, but not with a dull, joyless opener like Fant4stic.

After Josh Trank's infamous bomb, the movie that should have kickstarted a new Fantastic Four franchise instead ended up killing it. It wasn't long after this that Marvel's First Family returned home to Marvel Studios and the MCU, hopefully opening the door for a much better version of the team in the future.

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