{"id":31831,"date":"2013-12-29T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=31831"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:06:32","slug":"is-fox-planning-a-fantastic-four-vs-x-men-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/29\/is-fox-planning-a-fantastic-four-vs-x-men-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fox Planning A FANTASTIC FOUR VS X-MEN Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve known for sometime that Fox has been planning on merging their long-running X-Men superhero film franchise with their upcoming reboot of their Fantastic Four franchise into a single integrated universe the way that Marvel Studios has done with their properties. They’ve even recently hired on Simon Kinberg<\/a> to oversee the process.<\/p>\n

And now we have an idea as to how that blending of the two franchises may happen, thanks to this report from the financial site The Motley Fool<\/a> (via Bleeding Cool) –<\/p>\n

After multiple movies in their respective franchises, Fox has now decided to combine the Fantastic Four and the X-Men for an “Avengers”-style movie that could pay off huge for shareholders.<\/p>\n

Based on a 1987 four issue comic called Fantastic Four vs. X-Men, the movie will see the characters against each other because of secrets regarding the Fantastic Four’s origin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"FantasticFourXMenCover\"<\/a>So, how on the money might they be? Hard to say. Are they reporting from actual information that may be circulating from Fox to their investors? Or is the site making a stab in the dark, in the process showing off their geek side?<\/p>\n

If this is a real project, we probably won’t be seeing it anytime soon. The X-Men<\/strong> franchise already has a number of films on the way. We know that next summer we will see X-Men: Days Of Future Past<\/strong> and the recently announced X-Men: Apocalypse<\/strong> is looking as if it will have a 2016 release, while there is also a possible X-Force<\/strong> film<\/a> and another Wolverine<\/strong> solo film<\/a> in the development pipeline.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we won’t even be seeing Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four<\/strong> reboot until 2015. I would suspect that Fox would probably want a sequel before they started doing a hard crossover with the X-Men, though they could be taking a play from what Warner Brothers appears to be doing with and being rushing the big team-up films into production as quickly as possible. But even then, I wouldn’t expect to see it before 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will the studio bring their two superhero franchises together for a fight?<\/div>\n

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