Meskipun reboot Fantastic Four (2015), arahan Josh Trank,mengecewakan, baik dari performa di box office maupun tanggapan kritikus, namun ternyata film ini masih mendapat lampu hijau untuk mendapatkan sekuelnya.

Beberapa bulan setelah 20th Century Fox mengilangkan tanggal rilis Fantastic Four 2 dari jadwal mereka, produser dan penulis naskah, Simon Kinberg, mengindikasikan jika film ini belum benar-benar mati. 

Dalam sebuah sesi perbincangan bersama Den of Geek di acara konfrensi pers untuk X-Men: Apocalypse, Kinberg mengakui jika film reboot tersebut memang bukan bukan yang bagus.

"We didn't make a good movie. The world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can't make a good movie every time out - not everybody does," ungkap Kinberg.

"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," lanjutnya, sembari menambahkan jika para pemeran filmnya, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan dan Jamie Bell kemungkinan besar akan kembali terlibat sebagai pemain. 

 

"We want to make another 'Fantastic Four' movie. We love that cast," kata Kinberg. "I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate and Jamie are great actors - we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much as 'X-Men'." 

Lebih jauh ia mengungkap apa yang diharapkan dari Fantastic Four 2 jika benar-benar terjadi. 

"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," jelasnya. "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." 

Fantastic Four 2 awalnya diniatkan untuk dirilis tanggal 9 Juni 2017, bahkan sebelum filmnya rilis tahun lalu. Namun mengingat keterpurukan film dari segi raupan penghasilan dan banjir kritik pedas yang diterimanya, maka tanggal rilis tersebut pun dihilangkan oleh Fox.

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