10 Radical Ideas To Save The Fantastic Four Franchise
8. X-Men Vs. Fantastic Four
Its not outside the realms of possibility that Fox might change their minds and decide to merge their two franchises together, having them take place in the same continuity. After all, Marvel Studios is proving rather adept at the creation of a shared universe, and Warner Bros. appears to be hamfistedly trying to follow suit for DC comics characters. As theres no X-Men team movie in development beyond Apocalypse at this stage, could the next one be the film which brought the two teams into conflict? There are any number of ways into the narrative. Reed Richards could easily be a professional colleague of Charles Xavier. In the comics Franklin, the son of the Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic was a world-shatteringly powerful mutant. The X-Men franchise tends to involve a lot of time travel, and Reed Richards is a genius who could well have invented a time machine. Xavier could finally become Onslaught, requiring some Fantastic assistance to take him down. Its not quite Batman V Superman - but who doesnt want to see Wolverine fight the Thing on an IMAX screen, or the Invisible Woman in a battle of wits against Jean Grey?
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