After the failure of the earlier films in the franchise, a Fantastic Four reboot is now being envisioned on a grand scale by Marvel and Kevin Feige. The film which will be directed by Matt Shakman, will go on the floors in 2024 for a potential 2025 release. While the casting process is yet to begin, Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby’s names are already being thrown into the mix.
More significantly though, the film’s plot is already being discussed widely even before it has gone into production. Among the various storylines that have been speculated upon, a latest leak involving the script indicates that the film could be a cosmic adventure much like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
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Marvel’s Fantastic Four Could Challenge Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
With the news that the Fantastic Four franchise is getting a reboot, Marvel buffs are eagerly awaiting a fresh script that could make up for the earlier disappointments. While the film is still in a very early stage with casting yet to be done, there have been many assumptions about the narrative that director Matt Shakman will be working with.
According to a fresh leak, Fantastic Four will be a true blue space adventure set in the cosmic realm. One of the hints that was dropped, urged audiences to study about black holes which could be pivotal to the storyline. This allegedly ambitious script not only seems to be taking a leaf out of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but also looks to challenge Nolan’s acclaimed film. With more information still being sought, it remains to be seen if this theory proves true.
Why A Fantastic Four Vs X-Men Crossover Film Never Happened
In 2016, producer and director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix Simon Kinberg expressed a desire to create an ambitious crossover between the X-Men and the Fantastic Four franchises. Having closely worked with various storylines as a writer, producer, and director, Kinberg believed that a collaboration between these two storylines would be ideal.
In an interview, the director who also wrote the screenplay for 2015’s Fantastic Four starring Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller, spoke to CBM about the exciting thought of bringing these two entertaining plotlines and characters together.
“I love the characters, I love the characters in Fan Four, and I love the new cast. Obviously I love the characters and cast of X-Men. So, hypothetically, the notion of putting them together is really intriguing, and there’s some really fun stuff that the comics have done in the past. So it’s not out of the realm of possibility.”
As fate would have it, The Fantastic Four based on Kinberg’s screenplay, turned out to be one of the biggest failures that year at the box office. Following the critical backlash and the lukewarm responses from the public, uniting the two worlds of X-Men and the Fantastic Four in a crossover film seemed to be a very risky idea. Till date, this film remains only a dream.
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