13 Movies Already Cancelled In 2019 (And Why)

1. Doctor Doom

What We Knew

Doctor Doom was set to be the first Fantastic Four-adjacent villain to get his own solo movie in Fox's Marvel-verse, with Legion showrunner Noah Hawley attached to direct. The latest we heard was that the project had been written but was on hold.

He spoke to Observer (via The Playlist), to talk about his approach to the movie and name-checked The Winter Soldier as inspiration.

“As with ‘Legion,’ my thought was that the [superhero] genre has a certain kind of movie covered, but what else can the genre do? What’s interesting to me about Doom’s character is he’s the king of an Eastern European country and is there a version of this that is more of a political thriller that mixes genre?

It’s something that ‘[Captain America] Winter Soldier’ did really well, which was kind of make a Cold War thriller movie out of a superhero movie. This is different than that, but it does have this idea of, and I don’t want to say too much about it, but it is a mixture of genres. The mandate is not to re-launch the ‘Fantastic Four’ franchise as much as it is to take this fascinating and under-served character and really build a movie about him where we ask the question: Is he a hero? Is he a villain? What does he really want? We’re able to explore these questions in a serious way.”

Sounds interesting.

Why It Was Cancelled & The Future

Sadly, cancelled as part of Fox's remaining slate of movies as Disney prepare to bring the X-Men and Fantastic Four to the MCU.

We can expect to see more of Doctor Doom, perhaps in an Avengers movie first, but it's unlikely Disney will take the same villain-led approach as Fox were going to.

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