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News FOX selling out to Disney?

Over the last few days I've had an idea for an MCU Fantastic Four movie:
We start off with an introduction to the FF team as they are preparing for their space launch, with each character getting a little bit of attention as they get ready. At the same time we also see news reports about some mysterious new terrorist group threatening the government of the Eastern European country of Latveria. At the same time as the FF launch in their space shuttle, the terrorist group launches an attack and the leader reveals himself, it's Dr. Doom.
We then get the accident that gives the FF their powers. When they get back we get the scenes of them discovering their powers, and the crisis that leads to them using their powers heroically for the first time. As all of this is going on we also get hints that Reed and Sue have some kind of a new experiment that they are working on. Ben and Johnny are loving being superheroes, but Reed and Sue would really rather focus on their scientific work. This leads to a little bit of conflict between the group, off and on.
At the same time the FF are establishing themselves as superheroes we see Doom take over Latveria with the help of his sorcery, his Doombots, and his Roma tribe.
The government approaches Reed, who we learn was Doom's roomate in collage, to go to Latervia to try to deal with him. At this point we learn that no only were Reed and Doom fremeies, but Reed and Ben were responsible for an accident that injured Doom and caused him to wear to armor we see him in now.
Since they feel responsible for what Doom has become Reed and Ben agree to go, and convince Sue and Johnny to come with them.
We then get a big action scene with the FF fighting their way through Doom's army, and confronting him in his castle. He barely manages to escape and disappears.
Things would slow down a little bit as we get a focus on the team and how all of this is effecting them. We get several scene hinting at Reed and Sue's new experiment.
Eventually Doom launches a big attack on NYC in retaliation for what happened in Latveria, which draws out both the FF and the Avengers. The two teams start out separate but end up fighting through Doom's army together.
The Avengers stay back and handle the army while the FF confront Doom. We get the big battle with all four of the FF combining their powers to take out Doom. Doom is captured, but just ends up being sent back to Latveria.
At the end we finally learn that Reed and Sue's new experiement is a portal to another dimension.
The first post-credits scene is the FF being approached by whoever the current leader of the Avengers is. They turn down full time membership, but say that they'd be happy to help if they ever run into any major crisis.
The second post credits scene starts on our side of the portal and then flies through it, revealing the silhouette of a mysterious figure watching it from the other side.
 
On the other hand keeping Hulu probably means Disney doesn't get as screwed when Net Neutrality gets scraped as Comcast and AT&T (if the merger goes through) aren't probably going to throttle or block a streaming service they have stake in.

Disney would still have a stake in Hulu under what I'm suggesting. They just wouldn't be allowed to keep Fox's stake.
 
I almost feel like the FF have to come into the existing MCU from another universe, one where they were the only/greatest superheroes of the 1960's/70's. Or somehow have them be originally from the MCU of that era, but having been long since erased from existence/history/memory somehow and then brought back/catapulted forward half-a-century (shades of Cap). Either way, have them come in as the already established, fully formed (and, above all, recognizable) First Family of Superheroes (kids optional). Then establish that Doom somehow made the move with them, he goes to Latveria, kicks ass and takes over. Worry about the origin later.

I keep envisioning a post-credits scene that would set up the FF; Spider-Man chatting with Tony or Strange at the side of a building in NYC, and the following words (borrowed from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl):

"Do you ever get the sense that the universe is missing something? Like there's something that should be there and just... isn't. Like you woke up today, and even though you could swear everything was the same, you still feel like something very important is absent... and while though some part of you knows that thing - whatever it was - might've been a pain sometimes, you still miss it?"

And at the scene's end Spidey moves off the wall, revealing the title plaque of the Baxter Building.
 
If they were to set an MCU FF movie in the present, I think that they would have to go more towards the Ultimate route and make them new, young, up and coming. Perhaps Reed makes his scientific breakthroughs thanks to funding provided by Tony Stark's September Foundation, which was established in Civil War. Maybe Reed was even in the audience? Of course, thanks to Tony's funding, Reed beats a certain European Monarch, perhaps one that Reed knew in college who didn't need Stark's money, to the finish line on the invention.
 
If they were to set an MCU FF movie in the present, I think that they would have to go more towards the Ultimate route and make them new, young, up and coming. Perhaps Reed makes his scientific breakthroughs thanks to funding provided by Tony Stark's September Foundation, which was established in Civil War. Maybe Reed was even in the audience? Of course, thanks to Tony's funding, Reed beats a certain European Monarch, perhaps one that Reed knew in college who didn't need Stark's money, to the finish line on the invention.
Gods no!!!!! The only young member of the FF should be Johnny.
 
@Snowy Road

I'm not saying teenager young (which Johnny should be*), but certainly younger than Tony Stark was when we met him. In my mind, if Richards and Stark were contemporaries, then every one in the MCU would be sporting "Reed Tech" rather than "Stark Tech".

*Cue a Tom Holland cameo. The Torch/Spidey bromance must be acknowleged!
 
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@Snowy Road

I'm not saying teenager young (which Johnny should be*), but certainly younger than Tony Stark was when we met him. In my mind, if Richards and Stark were contemporaries, then every one in the MCU would be sporting "Reed Tech" rather than "Stark Tech".

*Cue a Tom Holland Cameo. The Torch/Spidey bromance must be acknowleged!
Reed's not like Tony. He plays with science in a different way and for different reasons. He not out for fame and fortune.I see Reed and someone who likes the challenge. Once the problem is solved he moves on and doesn't care about practical applications. He might fall more to the Pym side than the Stark one. He has some tech that is practical and commercialized, but not on the same level as Stark. The money they bring in finances the next thing Reed wants to look into.

I'd just establish in one of the upcoming films that a guy name Reed Richards is out there doing stuff and has been for a while. Maybe name drop Ben as well.
 
@Snowy Road
In my mind, if Richards and Stark were contemporaries, then every one in the MCU would be sporting "Reed Tech" rather than "Stark Tech".

Reed's not like Tony. He plays with science in a different way and for different reasons. He not out for fame and fortune.I see Reed and someone who likes the challenge. Once the problem is solved he moves on and doesn't care about practical applications. He might fall more to the Pym side than the Stark one. He has some tech that is practical and commercialized, but not on the same level as Stark. The money they bring in finances the next thing Reed wants to look into..

That's why I'm thinking they've got to be older. Maybe not 1960's old, but old enough for Reed to be a contemporary (mentor? He can't have got it all from Dad) to Tony and also to work with Hank 'Ant-Man' Pym.

OK, how about this: The classic origin of the FF can work for, let's say, 1986 (25 years after the original setting). The Cold War is still going strong, the US space program has stalled after the Challenger disaster, Tony's a teenager and Hank and Janet are out there. Reed wants to study a cosmic ray phenomenon out in space before the Soviets do, but can't rely on NASA anymore. So he pulls a Jeff Bezos and cobbles his own spaceship together, and the rest is history. The FF operate from 1986-1991 (time enough for Reed and Sue to marry and have kids, hang out with Hank and Janet, mentor young Tony) and then are yanked out of the MCU during a cosmic adventure not long before Howard Stark is killed. So maybe only Tony/Hank half-remembers them.

By the time they come back, Peter will have graduated high school and be in college, so Johnny (17 in 1986, 22 in 1991) will match up with Peter age-wise and the bromance can commence.
 
I'd just establish in one of the upcoming films that a guy name Reed Richards is out there doing stuff and has been for a while.

Yeah, I just had a thought about that -- just establish that Reed has been there all along, but the reason nobody in the movies has mentioned him is because he and Tony Stark are huge rivals, and nobody dares to mention him when Tony's around because they don't want to set him off on one of his rants. :lol: That could be a funny way to handwave why he's never been referenced.


It sounds like people need to be reminded that FOX doesn't actually own the filmic rights to the Fantastic Four, and so Disney/Marvel Studios wouldn't acquire them even if this deal happens.
https://screenrant.com/disney-fox-fantastic-4-rights-constantin/

You're leaving out the important point the article makes on the second page -- that even if Disney/Marvel doesn't have the rights, they could arrange things so that Constantin would have to partner with them in order to make another FF film. So it could end up like it is with Sony and Spider-Man. After all, given how systematically Disney has managed to get their characters back one way or another, it's hard to believe they couldn't come to some arrangement with Constantin.
 
Why wouldn't they be? An MCU Fantastic Four would likely be much more well-received than yet another independent reboot. Just look at Spider-Man. Merchandise sales on Spider-Man spiked dramatically just with the initial announcement that he was joining the MCU.
 
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^ Constantin Films would have to be amenable to partnering with Disney/Marvel Studios, and that's not guaranteed.

Seriously? If this Fox deal goes through, Disney will be the single most powerful, dominant studio in Hollywood. Constantin is a tiny outfit in comparison. And Disney has made it abundantly clear that if it wants something another company has, it'll either cut a deal with them or just buy the company.
 
Because Disney and Marvel Studios aren't the "only game in town", and aren't Constantin's only option when it comes to distributing any future Fantastic Four films made by them.
No, but they ARE the most demonstrably successful studio at dealing with Marvel characters. A deal with Disney/Marvel would be a license to print money. Studios LOVE a sure thing, and making a Marvel movie with Marvel characters these days is about as close as you can get in Hollywood.
 
So if the deal happens, would we be more likely to get new FF comics, and see more FF and X-Men merchandise?
 
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