Whatever the actual reasons may be, Fantastic Four failed to impress both critics and fans alike, and with a
box office gross to match the overall response, a sequel seems highly unlikely.
However, Fox appears to have faith in the property, and a really strong desire
in not seeing the rights revert back to Marvel, because the official position
is that the sequel is indeed coming on June 9, 2017.
While at the Toronto
International Film Festival MTV spotted Fantastic Four screenwriter Simon Kinberg, who was there helping
promote Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi project The Martian, of which he is a
producer, and quizzed him about the poor reception Fantastic Four got from critics
and most importantly fans.
"I was obviously
disappointed. I was most disappointed that fans didn’t like it. I care
more about them than I do anyone else. But I haven’t done a full deep dive on
it. Do I think it was unfairly treated? I don’t know."
Fantastic Four's
production was famous for all the wrong reasons. Rumors and anonymous sources
often threw the project onto the "front page" of many entertainment
news outlets, and for Kinberg that made an already challenging undertaking even more
difficult.
"I’ve been on
plenty of happy movies that don’t turn out to be very good movies, I’ve been on
a lot of unhappy, difficult sets that turn out to be great movies," he
said. "There was a lot of attention on the process of making that movie.
It’s hard, when you’re making a movie, movies are hard to make. It’s just the
reality."
Still, despite
everything Kinberg is looking ahead and revealed that he is already trying to figure out a story
for the sequel, which he hopes will star the same cast.
Source - MTV
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