Are we blessed or cursed to get a Fantastic Four reboot once a decade?

when The Fantastic Four: The First Steps It will be released in theaters later this year, and it will mark a milestone Fourth time is something It happened straight. Four times over the past four decades it has been recently rebooted Fantastic Four film It was made. And if you can believe it, they all happened about 10 years apart. Does this bode well for this new movie or does it point to a newly rebooted movie coming in 2035? Let’s break it down.

Arguably the most famous Fantastic Four The film so far is the one that was released in July 2005. It was directed by Tim Story, and stars Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis as Marvel’s First Family. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a big enough success to receive a sequel in 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. That wasn’t a success, and unfortunately, this iteration of the Fantastic Four was dead (until Evans reappeared in… Deadpool Wolverine naturally).

Ten years (and one month) later, in August 2015, a new version of the team was unveiled. It was directed by Josh TrankAnd Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell played the group this time. The film had its moments but the troubled production ended Until it appears on the screenIn the end, the film suffered a critical and financial failure.

It’s now been another 10 years, and once again in July, there’s another Fantastic Four team on the way. The film is directed by Matt Shankman, and this time the ensemble consists of Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. However, the difference now is that since Disney bought Fox, these Fantastic Four are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And no, we didn’t forget the OG. Roger Corman Fantastic Four The film never got an official release due to rights issues, but it first came into the public consciousness in the summer of 1994. This negates our “exactly 10 years” hypothesis, but only by a few months.

So, aside from the weirdness that’s been new since the 90s Fantastic Four The teams have been featured in films for nearly a decade (1994, 2005, 2015, and 2025 respectively), what does this say about the franchise? It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? None of the creative teams behind the scenes managed to come up with the chemistry that made the comic book characters, which originated in 1961, so successful. But maybe, just made it, the fourth time will be the charm. At least we hope so. What do you think?

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