Fantastic Four Officially Getting Rebooted
Mon, August 31, 2009 
Way back in March, our pals at IESB revealed that 20th Century Fox were planning on rebooting the Fantastic Four franchise not unlike Batman Begins, Casino Royale and Star Trek.
Now six months later (!), Variety "reports" the story (Where is IESB's credit by the way? They were cool enough to rightfully give HitFix props for calling Bryan Singer developing Battlestar Galatica! What gives?) The studio has assigned Akiva "I almost killed Batman!" Goldsman to produce the new film and oversee its production. Phil Gee must be rolling in his grave right now!
In addition, Michael Green (whose currently working on Heroes and recently did some rewrite work on Green Lantern) has been commissioned for penning duties. Depending of your taste of Heroes, you can interpret that decision as being headed in the right or wrong direction - most likely the latter. Of course, this comes less than 24 hours after the announcement that Disney was purchasing Marvel and would (eventually) be home to its heroes on the big and small screen.
Now studios outside of the Mouse are wisely taking advantage of what Marvel properties they currently have their hands on. So it makes even more sense now that Fox wants to take another crack at it. This despite the fact that the last FF film was released just two years ago.
Reader Comments (4)
so they are again doing this to keep the rights?
Yes.
Stay tuned for this Friday's edition of 'memo to the executives'. Maybe I can give the Anti-Christ some pointers.
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