{"id":127484,"date":"2015-08-09T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/so-will-fox-hand-off-the-fantastic-four-et-al-to-disneymarvel.html"},"modified":"2015-08-09T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:56:16","slug":"so-will-fox-hand-off-the-fantastic-four-et-al-to-disneymarvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/so-will-fox-hand-off-the-fantastic-four-et-al-to-disneymarvel.html","title":{"rendered":"So will Fox hand off the Fantastic Four (et al.) to Disney\/Marvel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems pretty clear that (a) the new FF movie is a horrifying bomb (rightly or wrongly), and (b) there will not be a sequel. It&#39;s not even certain that that characters will cross over into Fox&#39;s X-franchise as was suggested.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to see Marvel get the rights back to the FF movies, and see them integrated into a larger Disney-base Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Sony has arranged with Spider-Man. That desire makes <i>predicting<\/i> such a thing to happen a bit dodgy. But this fiasco tells me that Fox won&#39;t be rebooting it for themselves any time soon, and they have the prospect of making more money by working some sort of deal with Disney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fantastic-four-box-office_55c787f0e4b0f1cbf1e553ac?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&#038;ir=Entertainment&#038;section=entertainment&#038;kvcommref=mostpopular'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UbU1yhCDDzj_p9ad-n2Hznf5RP3-u5cCVMdszFt18FGw7VrHIhGBFeQldCM-tkSA5oegOCvhwZpMHg66Lc9u282uXqa6RC9XYYVNdupZ6XJIm2lMt4iUQEVl=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fantastic-four-box-office_55c787f0e4b0f1cbf1e553ac?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&#038;ir=Entertainment&#038;section=entertainment&#038;kvcommref=mostpopular'>&#8216;Fantastic Four&#8217; Bombs With $26.2 Million Weekend<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 (Variety.com) &#8211; Scathing reviews and an indiscreet tweet left &#8220;Fantastic Four&#8221; on the slab after the franchise reboot flopped at the weekend box office. Fox&#8217;s hopes of rejuvenating\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Wfoi8Mdhqgq'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems pretty clear that (a) the new FF movie is a horrifying bomb (rightly or wrongly), and (b) there will not be a sequel. It&#39;s not even certain that that characters will cross over into Fox&#39;s X-franchise as was suggested. I would love to see Marvel get the rights back to the FF movies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/so-will-fox-hand-off-the-fantastic-four-et-al-to-disneymarvel.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So will Fox hand off the Fantastic Four (et al.) to Disney\/Marvel?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/fox-is-putting-together-a-doctor-doom-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":127484,"position":0},"title":"Fox is putting together &#8230; a &quot;Doctor Doom&quot; movie?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Jul-17 8:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Color me intrigued.Given Fox's very problematic record making a Fantastic Four movie work, shifting over to the FF's premier villain has some interesting possibilities. 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