Writer-ProducerSimon Kinbergis done defendingFantastic Four, but that doesn’t mean he’s given up hopes for a sequel even though Fox took it off the calendar after the 2015 movie tanked at the box office.
Speaking toDen of Geek, Kinberg admits:
“We didn’t make a good movie,” Kinberg said, “and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can’t make a good movie every time out - not everybody does. We actually have a pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we made many mistakes when we made that movie - mistakes that we learned from and we wouldn’t repeat.”
So what’s the key difference between the original and a proposed sequel? Kinberg explains:
“We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone ofFantastic Four,which is completely - well, not completely, but largely - distinct from theX-Men,which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darkerFantastic Fourmovie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.”
Also, when it comes to a sequel, he would want to bring back the core cast
“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie. We love that cast - I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate [Mara] and Jamie [Bell] are great actors - we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much asX-Men.”
So what exactly are the chances of winning Fox over to the possibility of aFantastic Fourmovie done right?
“We’re working really hard on figuring that out,” he said. “Nothing would make me happier than the world embracing aFantastic Fourmovie.”
Fantastic Fourshouldn’t be this tough to crack. It’s essentially a superhero team movie, and we’ve got plenty of those. The hardest thing about aFantastic Fourmovie should be making The Thing look right. Hopefully Kinberg and Fox figure out how to proceed with a sequel, because they’ve got a talented cast. Now they just need a writer and director they can trust with the material.
