4. The Fantastic Four
Back at the start of the current trend of superhero movies Marvel were very quick to throw out their A-list stars as quick as possible, in some cases sadly leading to pretty lacklustre films. The best example of this is The Fantastic Four; two dire movies that explored nothing than how much naked Jessica Alba you can get into a kids film. As is the norm nowadays, were getting a brand new reboot to hopefully make the team fantastic again.
Why it could be rubbish: Unlike Daredevil and Hulk making pedestrian films from non-pedestrian characters, The Fantastic Four didnt work because the characters arent suitable for the big screen. Theyre a rather bland group of people whose only real claim to fame is bringing Marvel to prominence; as a team on their own theyre not that interesting. Marvel has two other super gangs, X-Men and The Avengers, that are both much more varied in their characters in FF everyone seems to for the most part get along and have new films on the way that in concept are much more interesting the X-Men are travelling through time to fight their biggest threat while Fantastic Four are suffering through another origin tale. Oh the origin story. This makes sudden genetic mutation and being bitten by a radioactive spider seem positively believable. In the original comic the team get their powers from dangerous space rays when they use a conspicuously unprotected rocket secretly one night. Its dumb and impossible to transfer into film; the previous attempt to modernise it was eyerollingly forced. The only thing that could save the film is the presence of Chronicle director Josh Trank, although odds are hell be crushed, rather than flourish, in the studio system proper.