10 Radical Ideas To Save The Fantastic Four Franchise

4. Marvel€™s Fantastic Four

If Fox fails to do anything with the property, then their rights revert to Marvel Studios, who would finally be able to make a Fantastic Four movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sadly, that wouldn€™t be likely to occur until 2022, if reports are accurate and Fox have to keep making Fantastic Four features every seven years. Still, that€™s a possibility. Another, slightly more accurate possibility is something Marvel recognised some time ago; they were unlikely to ever see valuable movie rights like the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man ever revert to them in this way, but they can bring the characters back into the fold in a different way. Everyone knows that Marvel€™s deal with Sony over Spider-Man was a year in the making, and allows them to use Spider-Man in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, as well as to bring a rebooted Spider-Man character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe via his own film, still owned and distributed by Sony. What if Marvel are also campaigning behind the scenes with Fox, now that the Fantastic Four reboot has died a death, to bring their own First Family into the MCU in a similar manner? It would allow them to make their own Fantastic Four movie in Phase Four to tie in with the MCU, and (as with the new Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland) allow for that movie to be yet another reboot without any of the stigma and poor publicity involved in restarting the franchise yet again.