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This is a continuation thread, the old thread is [split]532157[/split]
I have a feeling Marvel is building toward something on the comic end. We saw the Kirby tribute with heavy FF content at D23, and I saw this pop up a few days ago: https://news.marvel.com/comics/70737/kirby-100-manthis-monster/. Most of the people at Marvel aren't as childish as Perlmutter.
If Marvel really wanted to kill FF, they'd bury them with a third-rate writer and let them whither, but I think their absence is actually building interest. I think the people who matter at Marvel understand the importance of the FF, and I have a feeling when they come back, they'll come back in a big way.
But if Fox keeps trying something that will erode and depreciate the brand even further. Yet Fox don't have the luxury of allowing it to remain dormant until that absence makes the heart grow fonder because of the issue of reversion.
This is where, even if they hold on to the rights for just a little bit longer with a Doom film, they're still stuck.
Fox is completely incapable of and/or uninterested in making the kind of epic, soaring, visually spectacular film that would be a proper FF film.
Okay, they're retreating to something maybe they can do: A dark, dreary, depressing, cheap Doom film.
But that leaves them still completely incapable of following up with an FF Film as they ever were.
A Doom film would seem to be a bridge to nowhere.
It's like everyone else (the fans, Marvel, the general audience) are like Arnie shouting to Fox and the FFINO defenders "the bridge is out" and they're saying "I can't hear you". But finally Fox and the defenders might one day turn around like Jamie Lee Curtis and scream in realisation "the bridge is out!".
@ Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige - we have had 12 threads discussing mostly the Fantastic Four. THE HUNGER IS REAL!
So do we know that their Doom movie will be their last hurrah with the FF rights? I'm hoping that they need to make a proper FF film in order to maintain ownership of said rights. We have less than 5 years remaining...but really less than 3 since it was mentioned by Willie that it usually takes 2 years from announcement to release. Countdown to 2020!
Willie you are a hero
I thought some people here might be interested in this:
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/09/kirby-king-comics-paperback/
Guys, what if Universal decides to play ball with Hulk and She-Hulk and the Doctor Doom movie is actually good?
2. Noah Hawley has an amazing track record. The guy did a great job with Fargo and Legion. Doom will likely be very good, it's just a matter of the actual FF reboot also being good.
Noah Hawley has zero track record when it comes to film directing. There was far more rational reason to have faith in Josh Trank after Chrinicle than there is reason to have faith in Noah Hawley now.
It's still the same studio that has had three chances to do Doom right and screwed up beyond belief at each opportunity.
And even if a Doom film is great, Fox still will have never made a film close to what FF should be. They'll still be just as unable to make FF as they've always been. We'd be right back where we are and they just would have killed more time with their game of 'keep away'.