“We Didn't Make A Good Movie”: Simon Kinberg Wants To Make "Brighter, Funner" 'Fantastic Four' Sequel

Yesterday, we tossed around potential ideas about where Marvel‘s Phase 4 could be headed, and one idea was that following Sony‘s lead with Spider-Man, 20th Century Fox could potentially make a similar deal with Marvel and return Fantastic Four to their rightful home, after a failed attempt to reboot the property on their own. Certainly, the studio has long way to go to earn the trust of audiences and fanboys about last year’s disastrous “Fantastic Four,” but it seems producer Simon Kinberg wants another shot at the property, while acknowledging he messed up his first attempt.

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“We didn’t make a good movie, and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly,” Kinberg told Den Of Geek, adding that he “wouldn’t repeat” the mistakes made on “Fantastic Four” in a follow-up, and he lays out how exactly he’ll succeed the next time out.

“We want to make another Fantastic Four movie….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,” he said. “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.”

I dunno, seems they tried to make a lighter “Fantastic Four” with those early 2000s movies, and look what we got there. I think some people would say, three strikes and you’re out, but 20th Century Fox seems to hope the fourth time’s the charm.