Posted on: August 31st, 2009 Fox to Reboot Fantastic Four
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. And if that second try doesn’t succeed, you’d think they’d give up, but no dice.
On the day that Disney announced it’s acquisition of Marvel, 20th Century Fox has declared a reboot to the Fantastic Four franchise. This sounds like a case of Fox hurrying to develop a film in order to keep the property with them instead of it eventually reverting to Marvel, now Disney.
According to Variety, Fox has tapped Michael Green to write the film. Green has previously worked on Smallville and Heroes and recently co-wrote the upcoming Green Lantern screenplay. Akiva Goldsman has been hired to produce the third film based on Marvel’s fantastic family. For the record, Goldsman was responsible for writing Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Just throwing that out there for you.
If you’ve seen the first two films you can attest to the sheer amount of suckage on display, but with a ‘reboot’ we’re supposed to sleep easy knowing that they’ll make it properly this time. It is suspected that none of the talent from the first two Fantastic Four films will be involved.
More on this as it develops. What say you, is Fantastic Four worthy of a second chance?
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February 5th, 2010 at 7:43 pm[...] Fox is also deploying this tactic with another Marvel property, the Fantastic Four, as announced back in August last [...]