Mark Miller joins Fox as creative consultant for Fox's Marvel shared Universe

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/09/27/mark-millar-to-guide-x-men-fantastic-four-movies

Looks like there may be plans to expand and perhaps join the X & FF universes in the future

Looking forward to see what comes if this. X-Men are Marvels best team imo, so hopefully the future films will become less convuluted and more universal in canon and expand with more characters spread out into squads.

Also looking forward to the FF reboot, hope they do a better Doom this time around

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Interesting news. Thanks for posting it, Nova.

 

[Kamandi]

This is decent news for FF. Better news would have been Fox is letting the rights lapse back to Marvel.

The Xmen: First Class series is doing just fine. Stay out of the way and let them work.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Interesting news. Thanks for posting it, Nova.

I'd love to see the Inhumans in the reboot, that'd be awesome.

Fox also has the rights to Namor right? That'd be an ideal character for the X and FF universes to conveger around

 

[Darth Snoopy]

This is decent news for FF. Better news would have been Fox is letting the rights lapse back to Marvel.

The Xmen: First Class series is doing just fine. Stay out of the way and let them work.

to both comments!

I'd love to see the Inhumans in the reboot, that'd be awesome.

That would be awesome!

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

This is decent news for FF. Better news would have been Fox is letting the rights lapse back to Marvel..

Except they wouldn't get a film then, MS is booked up with sequels for the avengers sequel for the next few years. Fantastic four just wouldn't get a film for a long time

 

[RyanSD]

Except they wouldn't get a film then, MS is booked up with sequels for the avengers sequel for the next few years. Fantastic four just wouldn't get a film for a long time

I'm sure if MS got the rights to FF, they would re-do their current plan and get a film out sooner rather than later.

Eh, this news doesn't really mean squat to me. I don't think Miller can do much to save these films from Fox. They'll just keep churning out the crap.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'm sure if MS got the rights to FF, they would re-do their current plan and get a film out sooner rather than later.

Eh, this news doesn't really mean squat to me. I don't think Miller can do much to save these films from Fox. They'll just keep churning out the crap.

Besides, I'm not really sure how the X franchise could benefit from the FF. Putting them together to try and copy what Avengers did so successfully, would likely have the adverse effect and damage Fox's licenses.

 

[nexus]

Clearly after seeing Avengers Box Office FOX figures it can cash big in if they actually make decent comic book movies that are closer to the source material.
Hopefully this means Fantastic Four will be done right this time.
I'd personally like to see X-Men rebooted with the core characters Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman to start then add Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Gambit, Rogue and Psylocke (all recast of course). If they can figure out a way to make XFC do that fine. If not reboot. XFC was a good movie, but it wasn't a comic spectacular blockbuster. If they want to tell that type of story, they need to get the A-Team X-Men back, not the Replacements that Vaughan was forced to use. At least Magneto has the right helmet now.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

With the awesomeness of the Spidey and X-Men reboots, Fantastic Four should easiliy be much better than than the previous films.

I think they should do The Thing CGI now

Come to think of it, it'll likely be an origin again...

As for X-Men i think they should build a new canon from XFC onwards and not let the original films hinder the story progressing. Afterall they'll make more money building new character iterations than associating with ones in the past that have come and gone.

 

[RyanSD]

With the awfulness of the Spidey and X-Men reboots, Fantastic Four should easiliy be more or less the same as the previous films.

Since every other studio that has superhero rights is jumping on the MCU bandwagon, I expect a lot more of this kind of crap to follow suit. The issue is that MS built up their world over 5 years, and all the studios want to go from point A to point F as quickly as possible.

After 5 films, they still haven't gotten an X-Men film that is based on the comics the way the MS films have been, and the less said about the FF movies the better.

Fox is going to **** this up.
WB is going to **** this up.

Any other studio who tries to replicate the MS formula will **** it up too.

 

[RIDDICK]

Fox is going to **** this up.
WB is going to **** this up.

Any other studio who tries to replicate the MS formula will **** it up too.

 

[thenammagazine]

Clearly after seeing Avengers Box Office FOX figures it can cash big in if they actually make decent comic book movies that are closer to the source material.
Hopefully this means Fantastic Four will be done right this time.
I'd personally like to see X-Men rebooted with the core characters Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman to start then add Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Gambit, Rogue and Psylocke (all recast of course). If they can figure out a way to make XFC do that fine. If not reboot. XFC was a good movie, but it wasn't a comic spectacular blockbuster. If they want to tell that type of story, they need to get the A-Team X-Men back, not the Replacements that Vaughan was forced to use. At least Magneto has the right helmet now.

I don't think they could get away with a recast of Wolverine for XFC. Especially since they've already included Jackman's Logan in the first film and also since XFC recognizes the first two X-Men films as continuity.

 

[Khev]

I don't think they could get away with a recast of Wolverine for XFC. Especially since they've already included Jackman's Logan in the first film and also since XFC recognizes the first two X-Men films as continuity.

Well technically XFC didn't call out that Jackman was Logan per se. He could have just been a random foul mouthed mutant as a little in joke to the prior continuity.

 

[thenammagazine]

Well technically XFC didn't call out that Jackman was Logan per se. He could have just been a random foul mouthed mutant as a little in joke to the prior continuity.

They also showed Mystique as Rebecca though too. It was intentional.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Since every other studio that has superhero rights is jumping on the MCU bandwagon, I expect a lot more of this kind of crap to follow suit. The issue is that MS built up their world over 5 years, and all the studios want to go from point A to point F as quickly as possible.

After 5 films, they still haven't gotten an X-Men film that is based on the comics the way the MS films have been, and the less said about the FF movies the better.

Fox is going to **** this up.
WB is going to **** this up.

Any other studio who tries to replicate the MS formula will **** it up too.

People probably thought the same about Flash Gordon, no other company can do it better, then came along a little film called Star Wars

MS may be the first to do it, but time will tell if they're the best to do it.

While MCU has more comic accurate costumes it's bits and bobs from 616 and Ultimates spliced together. Storywise, both Fox and Sony have delivered comic based stories just as well as MS have. And the FF costumes were pretty damn comic accurate as was the story in the first, casting and Doom's character were the problem

There was great comic book movies before Marvel Studios and after Marvel Studios the idea that they're is the best there is and ever will be is bullcrap, they could **** up FF just as much as Fox could.

 

[Kamandi]

Well technically XFC didn't call out that Jackman was Logan per se. He could have just been a random foul mouthed mutant as a little in joke to the prior continuity.

XFC does share continuity to the other Xmen films.

Spoiler

Patrick Stewart said publicly last week he is returning to play 'future Prof X' in the next XFC film. This follows rumors that several other actors from the previous Xmen franchise will reprise their roles.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

It goes (as of now)

X-Men First Class
X-Men
X2
X3

Origins doesn't count apparently

For Days of Future Past i'm hoping they keep Logan, Storm, Magneto, Mystique & Prof X actors, the rest could do with recasting imo

 

[nexus]

X2 was a very good film, but take another look at X-Men and say that's the direction the franchise should have gone in. I guarantee if X-Men had been launched today the black biker suits and the "kinda-sorta powers" would not be the approach. Read the interviews, Vaughn was stuck with the characters that he got because Singer was the producer and wanted to preserve his canon (screw 40+ years of storytelling in the comics). That's why I think the whole Singerverse should be scrapped and he should be banned. He damn near killed the Superman franchise and is hanging around X-Men (his only real commercial success) like a bad penny.

And in Holywood you can reboot and recast anything. Look at Batman. Star Trek. James Bond. etc. etc.
People want to see a good movie, they don't care if it was the same Wolverine that was in the first movie or seated at a bar, or if Alex Summers is Scott's brother, etc. etc. No one said Chris Evans can't be Captain America because he was already the Human Torch. The #1 best thing Fox could do for X-Men is to boot Singer and his 15 years old interpretation to the curb, and focus on making the best, most entertaining movie possible using the strongest X characters in the catalog.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Agreed, the Singerverse should be retired and Vaugn should be free to craft his version of X-Men.

What do you mean by kinda-sorta-powers?