X-Men and Fantastic Four are still yet to have their grand introduction into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it may be a while before we see the characters link up with the rest of Marvels superheroes.
Marvel boss Kevin Feige has confirmed that the studio are still locked in talks about how to merge the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters with the rest of the line-up, but the characters could possibly appear in standalone movies first before joining the crew at large.
Speaking to Fandango, Kevin revealed: Yeah, maybe [Fox characters will appear in non-standalone movies first]. You know, oftentimes it just comes down to a specific character in a specific story and a specific way to introduce them.
Its still early days, but its been a fun exercise, and its one, by the way, that weve been doing for years. Every development meeting starts with cool ideas and fun ideas, and our wheels are always turning in terms of what if… to use a Marvel publishing term. What if we did this? What if we did that?
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Fans have wondered just what the Fantastic Four characters have been up to in recent years with Marvel placing them on the backburner after the last movie, released in 2015, received a disastrous reception.
Still, it did gross $168 million (£132 million) at the box office. Not too shabby.
Mulling over the idea of standalones for X-Men and Fantastic Four, Kevin continued: So sometimes, like with Spider-Man and Black Panther, that made sense.
Then, other times, with characters like Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Thor, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man… its fun to introduce them in their own movies first.
The X-Men are currently back on the silver screen with the release of Foxs Dark Phoenix, which stars Sophie Turner, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence, and focuses on the story of Jean Grey.
However, it didnt exactly garner the response Fox had received as it received the worst opening for an X-Men film in history.
Kevin, 46, continued: We were one of the few companies that has a lot of characters but didnt have access to a whole bunch of them, and now that we do, its wonderful.
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