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Ant-Man and the Wasp director “dreaming” of bringing Fantastic Four into the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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With The Walt Disney Company’s planned acquisition of 20th Century Fox edging ever closer, it’s starting to seem likely that the heroes of the X-Men and Fantastic Four will soon be making their way home to Marvel Studios.Marvel’s Kevin Feige has stated that he isn’t giving any thought to the characters and their possible introduction […]

Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Thing and Human Torch get Fantastic Four #1 variant covers from Artgerm

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The First Family return to Marvel this August with the release of Fantastic Four #1 by Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli, and to celebrate Marvel is releasing four Artgerm variant covers featuring portraits of the iconic superhero team; check them out here…SEE ALSO: Marvel celebrates Return of the Fantastic Four with classic Jack Kirby posterThis August, […]

UPDATE: Comcast makes huge new bid for 20th Century Fox film and TV assets

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UPDATE: Following the news that AT&T’s proposed Time Warner merger has been approved, Comcast has now launched a whopping $65 billion dollar all-cash bid to acquire Fox’s film and TV assets. Disney’s bid currently stands at $52.4 billion in stocks, and it is said that the Mouse House has five days to make another offer.Original […]

Reboots and Rebrands and Remakes, Oh My! What’s with the lack of originality these days?

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Sade Green on reboots, rebrands and remakes…There is a distinct lack of originality in the film industry at the moment. Perhaps that’s too harsh actually; there is a distinct lack of originality in Hollywood. The market is over run with sequels, spin-offs, reboots, rebrands, films-that-are-now-television-shows and the dreaded ‘late-sequel’. You know, that sequel that the […]

Deadpool 2 writers wanted the cast of the Fantastic Four reboot to cameo

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Last week, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed that they floated the idea of writing a cameo for Chris Evans in Fox’s superhero sequel Deadpool 2, which would have seen the MCU star reprising his Human Torch role from the studio’s original Fantastic Four movies to audition for Wade Wilson’s X-Force team.Well, it appears that Evans’ […]

Artgerm variant covers for Fantastic Four #1 showcase The Thing and The Human Torch

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This August, Marvel is celebrating the launch of Fantastic Four #1 by Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli with Artgerm variant covers featuring team portraits, and we’ve got a look at the first two here featuring The Thing and The Human Torch.SEE ALSO: Marvel celebrates Return of the Fantastic Four with classic Jack Kirby posterSEE ALSO: Marvel […]

Deadpool 2 writers discuss cut post-credits scene, wanted Chris Evans’ Human Torch to cameo

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In the build up to this weekend’s release of Deadpool 2, it was revealed that one of the film’s post-credit scenes had been left on the cutting room floor, having been considered too dark even for Deadpool’s standards.Speaking to Uproxx, writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have been discussingd the scene in question, which would […]

Marvel celebrates Return of the Fantastic Four with classic Jack Kirby poster

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As the countdown to the Return of the Fantastic Four continues, Marvel has unveiled a special poster of Marvel’s First Family featuring classic artwork by Jack Kirby, which will be available to readers this August. Take a look here…SEE ALSO: Marvel marks the Return of the Fantastic Four with twenty variant coversThis August, Marvel invites […]

Marvel marks the Return of the Fantastic Four with twenty variant covers

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Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny are set to make their return to the 616 this summer as the publisher launches a brand new Fantastic Four series from creators Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man) and Sara Pichelli (Spider-Man: Miles Morales).To mark their triumphant return, Marvel has already announced a series of True Believers comics featuring some of the […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige says X-Men and Fantastic Four won’t impact the MCU for a number of years

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There was a lot of excitement amongst Marvel fans this past December when it was announced that The Walt Disney Company is set to acquire 20th Century Fox’s film assets, which includes the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises.Naturally this opens the door for Marvel Studios to bring the mutants and the First […]