5) An X-Men Crossover
X-Men: Days of Future Past did great numbers last year at the worldwide box office, and X-Men: Apocalypse will no doubt find similar – if not greater – levels of success in 2016. Moviegoers are happy to go and watch the X-Men, and while they currently have little interest in the Fantastic Four franchise, even those who despised the reboot would willingly sit back and watch them team-up with the mutants. While it would admittedly feel like more of an Avengers level event movie had Fantastic Four not been terrible, it still has the potential to be truly epic and redeem the team at the same time.
This wouldn’t actually be a strategy all that different to what Marvel is doing with Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 killed interest in the character, but inserting him into Captain America: Civil War promises to rebuild that and nicely set the stage for his solo outing in 2017.
That’s what the X-Men could do for the Fantastic Four, and assuming that the end result was something great, it’s easy to imagine fans and regular moviegoers alike once again being open to revisiting a film which sees the team take on a starring role.
This may ultimately be Fox’s best and safest option.
