10 Upcoming Movies That Have Already Been Saved From Sucking

The Original Pitch

While they’ve made a handful of great X-Men movies, Fox’s recent output with that group of characters has ranged from mediocre (X-Men: Apocalypse) to downright awful (Dark Phoenix), and when it comes to the Fantastic Four, they didn't make a single good film in the time that they owned the cinematic rights to the characters.

At one point in time, the studio actually planned to make a sequel to 2015’s lambasted Fantastic Four reboot (even after the first film came out and sank like a rock), which, needless to say, didn’t sound like a good idea, and while they hadn’t announced any future X-Men plans for after Dark Phoenix, that film proved it was time for the old guard to move on and let someone new take the reigns.

How It's Been Saved

And brilliantly for us fans, that “someone” just so happens to be Marvel Studios.

With Disney’s acquisition of Fox, characters like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four are now free to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the coming years. While nothing concrete has been announced at this time, it’s going to happen at some point, and as far as future prospects go, the outlook for both sets of heroes couldn’t be any brighter.

Marvel Studios has produced over 20 MCU movies, with not a single bad egg in their catalogue. They’ve also had experience reinventing popular characters like Spider-Man and the Hulk, delivering the best cinematic versions of those heroes in the process. That’s exactly the type of treatment that the X-Men and the Fantastic Four need, and given how effortless Marvel Studios makes it look, there’s absolutely no reason to assume that their takes on these heroes will be anything less than a huge success.