Where are all these ideas of Fox trying to get a deal out of Marvel coming from?? That's literally a delusion.
I can't speak for anybody else, but I was convinced Fox was working an angle when they announced the reboot literally the day after Disney bought Marvel.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58594
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/news/companies/disney_marvel/
Why announce it on that day specifically? If they were really interested in making the movie, there was no logical reason to announce it at that moment. They could simply go about the business of making the movie. There was no reason to make a big announcement right then (
particularly considering it's now four years later and they haven't even started ).
But, if their real motivation was to get money out of Disney/Marvel, the timing was perfect. When 4 billion dollar checks were being written, what would another few hundred million be? Sofa change.
So I was convinced for quite a while that Fox was just angling for a deal. Even as we got rumors about casting - Bruce Willis as Ben, Adrien Brody as Reed and many others I've forgotten - came and went, there didn't seem to be any real money being spent, locations scouted, directors attached, etc. So I still felt it was likely just Fox pretending they wanted to make the film to get money from Disney.
Then when Josh Trank was announced and a release date of March 16, 2015 was chosen, Fox's effort seemed more real than it had been up to that point. We started hearing about location scouting and shooting to start in July or early fall 2013.
But with no cast, it seemed impossible for them to start shooting on that schedule, but with Comic-Con in July, it seemed logical that Fox might want to keep the cast secret and then make big splash at Comic-Con by announcing it there.
But as we saw, not only didn't we get a cast, but nobody at Fox even whispered "Fantastic" and "Four" in the same sentence.
And that strikes me as very odd.
If they're really making this film, I'd expect them to at least talk about it, put up a teaser poster etc. to get people excited about a film that is just around the corner in Hollywood terms.
And even if they had no intention of making the movie, I would expect them to at least mention it to bring Disney to the table.
The lack of any mention makes me wonder if Disney is
already at the table. Either that or Fox has completely lost interest and they're just going to let it die and slide into Disney's hands. Those are the only two scenarios I can imagine for the complete lack of any mention at the biggest event of the year.
