A couple of weeks ago we ran a speculative piece that there’s a chance the upcoming Sony Venom movie might actually be linked to the MCU (here) and there’s been also been speculation that, after the colossal failure of the recent Fantastic Four movie, the rights might go from FOX back to Marvel.
Now Marvel movie boss man Kevin Feige has addressed both rumours and sadly put them to bed in the resoundingly negative.
In a recent video interview (here) Feige, currently promoting Spider-man: Homecoming, was asked about Venom in the MCU and he responded: “No plans to include [Venom] in the MCU right now. That is Sony’s project.”
While it’s not exactly a surprise, with Tom Hardy confirmed as playing Venom in the new movie (here) and Sony and Disney sharing Spider-man, there was hope among the fans that maybe, just maybe, Venom would be making life difficult for Tom Holland’s Spider-man.
Sadly though, that’s not the case.
And what about Fantastic Four? Well…
Ever since the latest movie version of Marvel’s first family was a bit of a letdown, there’s been calls and rumours to get them back to Marvel (here) but, again, it looks like it’s not on the cards. At least not for now…
“[We have] no plans with the Fantastic Four right now,” Feige says in the same interview, “No discussions about it.”
This comes as we just passed the day that the sequel to Fantastic Four was originally set to be released – June 9th, 2017.
At this stage it looks like Reed Richards and the gang are in limbo with no movie prospects on the horizon. And that’s the truly sad part.
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Marc
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