It is being reported that a founding member of The Fantastic Four will be killed off – and will stay dead – in an upcoming issue of the long-running Marvel Comic book. Marvel says it will either be Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch or the Thing, and that the death “will ripple across the Marvel Universe like never before,”Fans won’t find out until “Fantastic Four” No. 587 is released in January.But is this death really permenant?Marvel is adamant, noting that once the current story ends in No. 588, the Fantastic Four will cease to exist.
"We've been building to this story and this moment since Jonathan began writing the series around a year and a half ago," Brevoort said. "It's a story that will have a transformative effect on these characters — virtually nothing will be the same after the events of this story. And that was the reason to go this route — to bring about these seismic changes to the characters and to the series."
The bigger question might be how a death in the Fantastic Four universe affects plans for a film-franchise reboot, which reportedly in underway at 20th Century Fox.A permanent death of a founding and important member is something that Fox will not be able to cover up easily.Especialy since by the time the Reboot will be filming,the death story arc will be ingrained in the fan community and media,which will considerably lessen the impact and voracity of a new Fantastic 4 film starring a deceased member.Its not like The X-Men franchise where every mutant is interchangable with 100 others.The Fantastic 4 is the Fantastic 4.
This could have been the plan all along by Marvel.Disney has been on record saying they have their utmost attention on reclaiming the Fantastic 4 rights..By throwing a HUGE wrench into the gears of FOX studios it is possible they will not be able to pull off the deadline for the F4 reboot..details of the contracts are sketchy,but after every some odd years that Fox or Sony does not make a film starring certain characters,the right will revert back to Marvel.
Could this be Marvel/Disney's plan all along to kill off a Prominent member of F4...just to get the rights back?
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