Josh Trank Officially Set For FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot; David Slade Exits DAREDEVIL Reboot

YESS!!!! Marvel may bring Bullseye, Daredevil, etc back soon. From the Deadline article

Fox is looking for a director on its other major Marvel reboot, after David Slade just dropped out of Daredevil. The studio has a script it likes, but has to get the film into production by fall or risk losing the property back to Marvel Studios and Disney. Slade could not make the timing work as he is directing the pilot of the series Hannibal.



Crap, its getting close

Damn...The Fantastic Four is the film property that I'd most like to see revert back to Marvel.

@alibi- I agree!

Cool, though I kinda hope he purposely holds FF back so rights can return and he can direct it then. DD doesn't have much time left, so...we're probably getting that back, but hopefully they get THIS man to direct it.

F U FOX! I hope that the rights get returned for Daredevil. That would be a great character done right.

How many billion has the Avenger's made so far? Buy the rights back to all these franchises!!! They will make their money back.

There is absolutely NO way this is going to succeed.
The last movie had Jessica Alba and STILL FAILED!!!

Good Luck Fox...

The Fantastic Four is the one property I've been hoping would revert to Marvel/Disney! Not only are so many characters and plot devices tied into the team, but those same plot devices are what could make or break some of the future MCU projects. IF in fact the Marvel Cinematic Universe is heading in the cosmic realm, they'll unquestionably need/require the use of some of Marvel's biggest cosmic characters, including Galactus, the Silver Surfer and other cosmic entities essential to the Marvel universe, galactic/cosmic or otherwise. They need to act NOW to acquire the FF so that all the other properties associated with them can be assimilated into the MCU. If going cosmic is the goal, this needs to happen.

HOOORAY to both

dont think FF would do good even with trank on board

DD reverting back to Marvel/Disney could be cool. I'd love to see the direction theyd take it in.

Does anybody know when the rights to FF revert? Is it in the Fall along with DD? I think FF reverting is more important to the MCU than DD because of the direction it seems to be goin in. Then again, Feige did say they MAY look at Civil War, then you'd just need as many characters as possible, which would prolly call for the xmen to revert as well since alot of them were in it

Are we possibly looking at 6 Marvel movies in 2014? Between Marvel Studios, Disney, Fox and Sony, we have Cap 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero 6, X-Men First Class 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 scheduled for 2014.

If FF starts filming right after First Class 2, which starts in January, it's probably going to be released in 2014, as well.

That's a lot of stuff. And sadly, no DC movie in sight that year.

@SuspenseSmith, it's kind of an interesting thing. It's been said many times, but if Marvel got all it's franchises (X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, FF and Ghost Rider), they wouldn't be able to really use them for some time.

Kevin Feige has said that at the moment, Marvel Studios can only commit to 2 films a year. Maybe only 1 in the year a big movie like Avengers comes out. So that's about 5 franchises at a time that they can handle.

Marvel Studios currently has Iron Man, Thor, Cap, Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. They're also looking to make Ant Man, Black Panther, Dr. Strange and a host of other films. Iron Man 3 may be the last in the series, but that still leaves 4 other ongoing franchises, as well as the 3+ films they want to do. These other properties would another 5. That's a good 12 franchises they'd be handling. That's crazy.

Another thing that sucks is that if they were to get any or all of them back, they would have to do yet another origin story. It's not like DC, who doesn't have an established shared universe and you can reboot Batman without doing an origin and say he's been active for a year or more. Marvel Studios has a shared universe they've been establishing for 4 years now, so you can't just do an X-Men or FF film and say they've been around because we know they haven't. They haven't been in this world before now.

Not only do you have to do another origin to establish them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you have to do a new one that fits into the world they've been creating since Iron Man.

It would be interesting to see how they would fit the X-Men into the MCU, because most of that world's superpowers are either derived from tech/super-science or the magic-science from Asgard. How would they work in people who are born with abilities?

Also, FOX had to start on FF real soon or lose the rights.

I don't really care about F4. I want my Silver Surfer film!!!

I loved First Class so I'd welcome a good F4 or Daredevil. DD needs to be violent and gritty though, or actually intertwine DD with F4 and have Matt be their attorney and maybe have Kingpin work with Doom. I'm not sure why Fox hasn't merged their characters already.

Venom doesn't need a spin-off. You can't have venom without Spidey. It doesn't make sense. Maybe venom crossover maybe thats it.