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Bleeding Cool is receiving reliably sourced information about a new Fantastic Four movie being developed at Fox Studios And while the most recent movie reinvented the Fantastic Four as youngsters, along the lines of the Ultimate Fantastic Four comic book, the movie swings to the other end of the spectrum Instead, it will concentrate on[...]

When I was told the other day from a very trustworthy source that Marvel Comics would not be bringing back The Fantastic Four with Marvel Legacy and Make Mine Marvel, they were being completely sincere It looks like a Fantastic Three is happening. Back when we first reported that Marvel Comics was to cancel all their[...]

In 2014, as part of a series of articles looking at Marvel Comics' plans to cancel the Fantastic Four comics and any licensing of the Fantastic Four, as part of a falling out Fox Studios, we ran a letter sent to Marvel "sketch card" artists, instructing them not to use any Fantastic Four characters. Sketch cards[...]

Everyone else is the original, or even classic, version of the character. Captain Marvel is the only modern day, diverse version of an original character to have taken on the name after their classic counterpart. Considering Marvel are making a definitive promise that Generations and Legacy will see the new and the old side-by-side for a Marvel[...]

Mark me down for that one. There's another Bloom County Collection coming Fall 2017. Lots of new Artist's Editions coming up, including Forever People and a new Fantastic Four volume by Jack Kirby and a new Thor edition by Walt Simonson. A 25th Anniversary Madman Collection by Mike Allred coming in October Described as a greatest hits collection,[...]

First will be a John Byrne Fantastic Four book, with his favorite FF stories Next was a Rob Liefeld book covering New Mutants, Deadpool, and Wolverine issues he did that featured Deadpool. After that was a Bob Layton Iron Man book, covering Layton's various runs on Iron Man Lastly was another Bill Sienkiwicz release[...]

What you're doing is working'." While Mackie views the advice as a clever form of method acting, allowing her to better play a character who is new to the world of Doctor Who, it's worth mentioning that this strategy was rumored to be employed by Josh Trank while directing 2015's Fantastic Four, the third biggest bomb[...]

Bleeding Cool has long reported on the ongoing war between Marvel and Fox over the film rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four, but the war is actually even older than time itself No, wait, it's not older than time itself, but it is older than Bleeding Cool Marvel sold the rights to Fox back[...]

Never forget!The Fantastic Four reboot is one of the worst comic book movies ever and that goes right down to its inception A project that was only made to hold onto the right is very, very unlikely to be any good The rare exception to that is X-Men: Fist Class but Fantastic Four was not[...]

The reclusive billionaire's feud with Fox, who also own the movie rights to The Fantastic Four, has included cancelling Fantastic Four comics, reducing the prominence of the characters in Marvel's comics, and disallowing any merchandise or licensed products featuring either group. Things have changed, however, since Fox began developing the television show Legion, as well as[...]

Dec 21, 2018 will see a movie from Cameron's Lightstorm entertainment, prompting widespread speculation and a Thanksgiving cornucopia of clicks for Avatar 2. November 2, 2018 and February 14, 2019 are the dates for Marvel movies from Fox, which could be Deadpool sequels, X-Men sequels, that Channing Tatum Gambit movie, or even the sequel to Fantastic[...]

So why did the Josh Trank Fantastic Four film fail so miserably? I know that's a harsh question, but it has to be asked and the folks at ScreenCrush endeavored to find out It sounds like everyone wanted something different Writer Jeremy Slater wanted to make a giant, epic film while director Trank wanted something[...]

The two teamed up for Fruitvale Station and Creed previously. Also of note, Jordan will be the second person to have played Johnny Storm in a Fox Fantastic Four film to then by cast as another character in the Marvel Universe by Marvel Studios Chris Evans being the other Though we are still not sure what[...]

Perfectly in time for Free Comic Book Day. The title was a play on the traditional headline for the Fantastic Four, "World's Greatest Comic". However, just as there is no Fantastic Four comic published anymore, there were also no collections listed or spotlighted in the magazine preview Even though Marvel still publishes The only exception… was the[...]

Which features the first appearance of The Black Panther character in the movie as played by Chadwick Boseman. Created in 1966 by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for the Fantastic Four comic, Black Panther was Marvel's first black superhero – and the second to have his own title. And a copy that has been graded by CGC at 9.8,[...]

With Abrams having recently done films both Star Trek and Star Wars, Rock decided to ask the director to save one of his favorite franchises, The Fantastic Four. Can you direct the Fantastic Four?" Rock asked him "Can someone save it? I love the Fantastic Four and they keep f—ing it up! It's not stated in the EW[...]

The odds are that producers and executives in Hollywood are running around with three thoughts in their heads: people want R-rated superhero movies, comedy works better than dark-and-gritty and the Fantastic Four will never be a successful property And if that's the case then we are all in for a series of bad superhero movies. The[...]

I'm hearing here may be some movement on this situation... but if any publishers who enjoyed Watchmensch, Civil Wardrobe or the Avengefuls wants to get in

Cinemas Sins has put together an Everything Wrong With for the latest version of the Fantastic Four The video is 18 minutes long and in truth, I think they missed a few things. [youtube]https://youtu.be/iZpNgE6mMoA[/youtube] Cinemas Sins has put together an Everything Wrong With for the latest version of the Fantastic Four[...]

@CatsComicsCbus fantastic four — Tom Spurgeon (@comicsreporter) January 14, 2016 The confirmation of the news that the Fantastic Four was cancelled as a comic book came this week finally, alongside the closest you'd get a confirmation of the reasons why. But comic book creator Dean Haspiel, who worked on the Fantastic Four comic in recent years, has a[...]

So really, it's now the Prime Universe. And as for this being the last Fantastic Four story, Brevoort says, At a certain point, we set out here to do the last Fantastic Four story, at least for the time being We didn't necessarily start with that as the original goal way back even with "Avengers" #1[...]

In today's financial reports from Twentieth Century Fox, Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch is quoted as saying that poor Twentieth Century Fox financial results "reflect the expected impact of challenging comparisons for our film studio due to the timing of key releases, as well as the poor performance of The Fantastic Four." Though he did add "We are[...]

So in today's Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker Industries has bought the Baxter Building. Ex-Fantastic Four member and current honorary Uncanny Inhuman, the Human Torch (name change to The Inhuman Torch coming soon anyone?) has a problem with this. Chaos ensues But in the middle of the melee, a promise made by Peter Parker to Johnny Storm[...]

The guys go with with the rumours of the Fantastic Four possibly coming home to Marvel Studios in exchange for the TV rights of the X-Men to Fox Fox has The Hellfire Club and Legion ready to go But the debate goes, does Fox have the TV rights already or not  The guys also recap[...]

And, naturally, Colleen Doran was happy to show it off, a page in which Stan Lee talks about his inspiration for creating The Fantastic Four. Available here in the UK, and here in the USA. Yeah, I got to draw the awesome stuff AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE STAN LEE In stores Nov 3 pic.twitter.com/Ag85RFGD02 — Colleen Doran (@ColleenDoran) October[...]

Cebulski brought up that they were from the Marvel East (comic book) side and Marvel West is the movie, animation and video game side, which segued into an exchange from an audience member regarding the Fantastic Four. "Is the decision to proceed without a Fantastic Four monthly something that originated with Marvel East editorial or did[...]

A reader writes in excitedly to tell me that they have just bought a Marvel licensed T-shirt from Universal Studios that features both characters from the X-Men and the Fantastic Four on. Could this be an end to the licensing drought imposed by Marvel as a result of their falling out with Fox Studios and not[...]

  Bleeding Cool welcomes back the podcast Mighty Marvel Geeks, hosted in part by Mike Ehmcke, who also hosts the podcast We Be Geeks, which runs on

From Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, courtesy of Erik Hodson...   Not going to happen...  

** Potential Spoilers ** One of the big questions folks have had about the Fantastic Four has been what happened to the scene in the trailer where The Thing drops from an airplane The scene was part of the original script that Josh Trank was working from The idea being that just after the one-year-later jump[...]