10 Previous Mistakes To Avoid In The Fantastic Four Reboot

7. We Need Marvel Cameos

Fox owns the movie rights to both the X-Men€™s cast of thousands and the Fantastic Four€™s supporting characters and rogue€™s gallery. Although current scriptwriter, X-Men: Days Of Future Past€™s Simon Kinberg has recently ruled out crossovers between the two franchises, that doesn€™t mean that the studio can€™t take a leaf from Marvel€™s book and bring in cameos from and references to other Marvel characters that they have in their back pockets. This doesn€™t just mean the principal characters, Doom, the Silver Surfer and Galactus. Through association, Fox conceivably has access to Namor and the whole of Atlantis, the Black Panther, the Inhumans, Annihilus and even the Skrulls. And just because the X-Men won€™t have an official crossover anytime soon, doesn€™t mean that members of their staggeringly vast supporting cast can€™t make an appearance. It€™s even possible that She-Hulk could join that list €“ she€™s an ex-member of the team, after all. That€™d be a kick in the pants for Marvel. Basically, Fox and Trank need to look at which Marvel characters they can legally use as part of their deal, and then figure out a way to make casual reference to a select few in the final script. They can energise fan interest by having some of them appear in the reboot, riffing off the Marvel way of doing things. At the very least, it€™s a whole lot of excellent free publicity, as comics sites across the length and breadth of the internet devote themselves to numbering the dropped names, the Easter Eggs and the blink-and-you€™ll-miss-them cameos.