Producer Simon Kinberg Still Threatening To Make A ‘Fantastic Four’ Sequel
By Angie Han/May 13, 2016 9:30 am EST
“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie,” Kinberg said during the recent press tour for X-Men: Apocalypse. And they’re really going to try to get it right this time, he promises: “We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four,” he said.
Speaking with Den of Geek, Kinberg was frank about his disappointment in 2015’s Fantastic Four:
But, he continued, “We want to make another Fantastic Four movie. We love that cast.” And he’s already given some thought to how a sequel could course-correct:
We didn’t make a good movie, 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’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.
