It is pretty safe to say that the latest installment of the Fantastic four franchise hit a wall, and by wall i mean the kind you see in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. The fantastic 4 has never really been a block buster franchise that dominated the box office, in fact every version has barely been afloat. Its not to say that the directors behind these movies or the actors were bad, its more or less the fantastic 4 themselves.
Before Fox began trying to create their own Marvel based money machine, the Fantastic 4 was more or less just a footnote in the Marvel Universe. Characters like Iron man, Thor, and Captain America have always been The Marvel cash crop; even before they were made into billion dollar movies, their comics were always the more popular. The x-men has always been a favorite of mine. I remember when i was younger; There was always something x-men based on tv. They had a long running cartoon that i really enjoyed.
I remember there being a Fantastic 4 cartoon, but i can’t say that i really liked it that much. I never really gravitated towards F4. I think it was because their powers weren’t all that impressive to me. One of them was a giant rock, one was a rubber band, while the female was able to turn invisible and make forcefields, while her brother could be on fire and fly around and all that. To be honest they felt like x-men outcasts.
F4 was never really a huge seller, even their comic books were never really that popular compared to other Marvel characters. There has been a rumor that fox is going to proceed with a sequel, even though the movie performed poorly. Many of the Marvel fan base have cried out that they need to give Marvel/Disney the rights to the movie so that they could do the movie some justice and finally get a proper movie made, but i disagree. I realize that Disney has been batting 1000 making billion dollar marvel movie’s like its nothing, but i just don’t think they can do it with f4, i don’t think that the franchise has the backing like Captain America or Iron man.
I honestly don’t believe that Marvel could right the sinking ship that is the Fantastic 4 franchise. the last two versions of it died in theaters and never really had the pull, even with the right cast and the directing chops of someone like J.J Abrams (Money Printer) could bring this dead franchise back to life.
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