10 Radical Ideas To Save The Fantastic Four Franchise

6. Fantastic Four On Fox

Superhero television has never been as ubiquitous as is in 2016. The success of The CW€™s Green Arrow adaptation has spawned two more DC shows on the same network, while Gotham inexplicably continues to try to tell Batman stories without Batman and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. tries to pretend it€™s set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe despite being on ABC and featuring no actual superheroes. Into every lake, a little rain must fall. If Fox don€™t want to make a sequel to this most recent craptastic film, and feel they can€™t legitimately run a hard reboot on the Fantastic Four again so soon (which they can€™t, really), then perhaps the small screen would make a good second choice? After all, I hear that Fox own a TV network and even get to decide what shows they broadcast on it. They€™d need to get permission from Marvel for that, of course - and I€™d have said that would be impossible, were it not for the fact that Marvel recently agreed to licence the Hellfire Club and Legion to Fox in exchange for a handful of magic beans and some elbow grease. But more importantly, a well-constructed Fox TV show for the Fantastic Four would be a soft reboot, designed to pave the way for an eventual transition of the property to feature film status. No name actors, a lower budget and lower expectations right out of the gate: it€™s a good way to reintroduce the property to audiences without turning them off straight away.