• Fantastic Four - May 2, ‘25
people online have been saying it for awhile and i know marvel wont do it because they're fucking stupid but have the FF go up into space that magical week of the Stark Expo or before it, back before everyone knew superheros existed and have it be a fish out of water comedy. These guys come back down with their powers but its mainly focused on them being 15 years out of sync with their new world where superheros exist. Reed's best friend Tony is dead and there are plenty of people smarter than him in the pecking order now and Reed just can't handle it. Johnny goes from a 15 year old jock worried about updating his myspace to now being a weirdo for not having grown up with smart phones or modern day internet, Sue's arc could be similar, she's the blonde bombshell who's in a world where women don't act like paris hilton or maybe for the first time people see beyond the bimbo persona and she finally gets a shot at having people actually listen to her. Ben's arc would be the funniest with him having a typical 2000s era view of being turned into a monster but in a post-superhero over sexed up world he goes from an over weight schlubby human to a lot of people's monster fetish. I'm even imagining a scene whining about creepshots of him and Sue going "not so fun is it?" Also either keep Dr.Doom for the sequel and do a sillier villian to keep it focused more on the hero's plight the same way they pulled off with Thor 1 or have it be a low scale thing like him barely discovering his powers. i'm also imagining him returning to his country after 15 years and its thriving somehow, like maybe they got the contracts for actually cleaning up cities where superheros destroy shit or they're responsible for the stuff they put in smartphones to make them work or some other McGuffin that leads to the country doing absurdly amazing in his absence so now he goes from silly foreign man to a real threat. Maybe
Sokovia was keeping them down this entire time and once that country got destroyed the country just exploded in wealth and power and because of how close they are to the place responsible for the accords no one wants to interfere.
I know people are talking about doing that stupid "they're from the 1960s and now they're here and its like Austin powers but much worse!" plot leak but at least with my idea it really plays into this whole continuity lock out people are complaining about, if you stopped watching marvel or didn't catch up in the last 5 years this film would be a sort of in-house parody that would catch people up. It would also be a fun acknowledgement to how much shit has changed from phase 1. Just look how women were treated in Iron Man 1/2 vs The Marvels in terms of sexualization, Tony blatantly fucking the woman journalist and having his flight attendants dance on strip poles vs every woman covered up like a mormon. Then there's the quips, as much as people whine about it being part of Marvel, outside of the avengers the jokes are fairly few. The incredible hulk being more of a drama even. You could even have a joke about the post-credit scenes, with Reed looking confused because he thought everything was over and who the hell is this new person.
Everyone talks about The Boys when it comes to "superhero parodies" but no one's really taken Marvel for its bullshit yet. Also by making it such a relatively low stakes film means it will be easier for them to film. There's no way in hell its making that release date if its another $200 million bullshit movie. its literally 18 months away and we don't have a casting announcement yet. So this has to be a $90 million film at the most, or that release date is changing.
If she doesn't want to be treated badly maybe she shouldn't shit on white people and men in interviews.
Remember the Imagine video? a lot of actors just said their agents told them to sing and didn't even tell them what it was for, they're just so used to doing what someone says they don't factor in what it might be for. they're the ultimate Milgram experiment torturers. I'm sure eventually we'll hear from some PR or agent leak that they were told by their agent "hating on white people or men will improve your Q score" it just feels so odd how often these celebs are tuned into the latest twitter normal takes. It reminds me of Anya Joy talking in an interview about being into crystals and tarot and someone pointing out in the comments "they tell these people beforehand the questions dummy" like do people really think these celebrities can manage to answer 100 questions in the span of 9 minutes without thinking about them? And literally none of them come out looking bad? Its like how up until the late 2000s most people believed reality shows were authentic. Eventually someone will be like "the Israel loving kikes at the head of these agencies told us to talk shit about white people" and everyone will go "no we knew that all along despite our actions saying otherwise"
Media ain't even trying to spin it.
disney and the media in general get more cool points letting people be honest, the MCU has fuck all being released until 2025 so they might as well let this phase die on the vine and do a soft reboot in 2025.
