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Originally Posted by kemcha
Fox truly has an unmitigated disaster on its hands with this new Fantastic Four movie. I don't know what they were thinking but the majority of movie fans that would be going to see this movie would be superhero fans and comic book fans. Personally, this movie had too many negative aspects going into it:
First, Trank kept describing these heroes as being "disabled" or "handicapped" because of their power. From his comments on that aspect of this popular franchise, he truly had no idea about what makes the Fantastic Four so popular among comic book fans.
Second, casting Johnny Storm as an African American hero and the Storm siblings being from a mixed racial marriage? That was the biggest complaint that many fans had about the casting.
I don't know why exactly Fox rushed into this but the fact that they were about to lose the rights to many of the Marvel properties they had acquired licenses to just proves that Fox has treated these licenses with disrespect, or rather the producers and directors have.
Even though the movie has yet to hit theaters, the film is already tracking so horribly that Fox should have scrapped this project from the outset because it's obvious they weren't listening to the fans who have been angry over the casting of the film from day one.
Heck, even the X-Men films haven't been done right, with Bryan Singer taking too many liberties with that film series. I don't know how many people have read the original Days of Future Past comic-book storyline, but the second X-Men movie, from the original trilogy, contained elements of the Days of Future Past storyline and incorporated them into the film. Then, we got a paired down version of that storyline in the X-Men: First Class sequel. Fox simply does not know how to handle licensed properties, they're abysmal at it.
Hopefully, Fox will see to reason and revert the production rights back to Marvel while allowing Fox to distribute the film. They need to do the same thing with the X-Men franchise. Just enter into the same kind of distribution deal that Sony Pictures and Universal Studios entered into with Marvel.
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The thing with X-Men is despite you not liking what Fox has done with the franchise, the majority of movie goers and comic fans alike have. Again I said majority...not all.
The X-Men was/is my fav. comic as a kid and it's my fav. comic book franchise. It's a $3 billion franchise for Fox. It's not going back to Marvel.
The Fan4 on the other hand...I can see them going back to Marvel in some kind of deal between Fox and Marvel. Marvel gets Fan4 back; Fox gets to make the X-Men tv series.
Sad thing is, these reviews have killed my buzz. I was definitely going to see it this weekend because I expected some positive reviews. But nothing like this.