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X - humanity : First Classscreenwriter Zack Stentz has let on that in 2011 he worked on a script for a massive Marvel squad - up movie at 20th Century Fox . According to Stentz , the movie would have included all of the Marvel grapheme that Fox own at the time - not only the ecstasy - Men , but alsoDaredevil , theFantastic Four , and evenDeadpool .
Of naturally , the time to come of those characters is now in the custody of Marvel Studios , as parent companyDisney recently assume twentieth Century Foxand all of its celluloid place . This brings Fox - own Marvel characters under the same ceiling as the quietus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in time for the start of Phase 4 , so it ’s very potential that we ’ll eventually see movies where the X - Men collide with the Fantastic Four . However , it ’s now been revealed that while Joss Whedon was filming the groundbreaking superhero squad - up movieThe Avengers , Fox was making alike mystic architectural plan .
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Speaking on Kevin Smith’sFatman Beyondpodcast ( viaComicBook ) , Stentz spilled the inside information on Fox ’s secret Marvel squad - up project , explain that he felt somewhat certain he would n’t get sued for doing so now thatDisney owns Fox . obviously around the metre thatX - Men : First Classwas arriving in theaters , Fox was take a shit some moderately ambitious plan for their own Marvel universe :
" My ex - partner [ Ashley Miller ] and I , when we were working at Fox and we were working on 10 - Men : First Class , we did a secret movie for them that , I ca n’t recite you what the plot of ground was , but I can tell you that it used all of the character , all of the Marvel characters that Fox had at the sentence in 2011 . It used the X - Men . It used the Fantastic Four . It used Daredevil . It used Deadpool . Daredevil was still at Fox at the clock time . We almost had Paul Greengrass take it , which would ’ve been so cool , but he had another task to do rather . It did n’t terminate up going but it was a script I was really gallant of and it would ’ve been really dependable . "
At the clip , Ryan Reynolds was already campaign for a 2nd guessing at playing Deadpool , and Fox was midway between the releases ofFantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surferand Josh Trank’sdisastrous 2015Fantastic Fourreboot . As another tantalizing " What if … , " Stentz also disclose detail about his own playscript for theFantastic Fourreboot , which was scrapped when Trank come onboard .
" When [ Trank ] formally signed on he was like , ' Why are you imposing these other writer on me ? I require to use my own writer . I wanna do my own script . ' And he did his translation instead . It was one of those hammer blows to our calling at the time , even though we had gotten pay , because I was so freakin ' gallant of that script . It was how the Fantastic Four were almost the Fantastic Five except a young humans named Victor von Doom was just too damaged and f — male erecticle dysfunction up to be part of them . It was a script I was very proud of . Josh Trank did n’t wanna do it . "
While it ’s in spades fun to imagine how a squad - up movie with Fox ’s Marvel all - star would have been like , or inquire whether Stentz ’s version of Fantastic Four would have process out any honest , unfortunately we ’ll never really know . Still , with almost all of Marvel ’s character now under one roof , there ’s plenty of potential for more epic squad - ups in the future .
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Source : Fatman Beyond(viaComicBook )
