Despite being panned by critics and making $170 million worldwide on a $120 million production budget, producer Simon Kinberg says a Fantastic Four sequel may very well happen.
In an interview with Den of Geek, Kinberg revealed that he’s very interested in making Fantastic Four 2 with the existing cast members, who Fox has optioned for a sequel.
“We didn’t make a good movie,” Kinberg admitted about the 2015 Fantastic Four starring Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, and Jamie Bell, “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.”
“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie,” he added. “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 as X-Men.”
Kinberg has some ideas as to how they could make Fantastic Four 2 better than the original. “We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely — well, not completely, but largely — distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie, 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.”
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