10 Radical Ideas To Save The Fantastic Four Franchise

10. FANT4S2C

Make the reboot sequel after all. Just make it better. Everyone knows that word of mouth can break a movie, but it can also make it. Imagine a Fantastic Four sequel, with a necessarily lower budget, relying on story, character and creative, innovative production values to maximise the audiences bang for their buck, that received enough positive buzz to get people excited about the prospect again. It wouldn€™t be as hard as you€™d think. The main stumbling block would be getting Fox executives to agree to give it another try. There was never anything wrong with the cast of the reboot: they were certainly chosen far more for their ability in front of the camera than the cast of the previous two films, who looked the part but never gelled together. More than that, they€™d be coming from below. There€™s something about working on a project with lowered expectations that can energise a creative team, especially one working under tight budgetary restrictions. Imagine being on the crew that reversed the downhill plunge of a legendary comic book franchise. They€™d need to dispose of the rubbish stuff from the first film and align the core team along the lines of the classic characters. Set it a few years later, the Four having removed all ties to the US military, and become autonomous and self-funded through Reed Richards€™ inventions and patents. Let€™s say that those inventions have begun making the world a better place. Reed has changed society, rather than keeping his innovations to himself like Tony Stark. The Fantastic Four are humanitarian revolutionaries. Reed has won a few Nobel Prizes. Then the portal to the parallel dimension that gifted them their powers is mysteriously reopened from the other side - and it turns out that the so-called €˜Planet Zero€™ is actually the Negative Zone, and Annihilus has discovered their existence€ Just don€™t literally call it FANT4S2C. That€™s a completely sh*tbox idea.