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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.

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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin be a part of Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, July 25, 2025.
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* AnimalTesting: The dimension-hopping is first tested with a chimp. It comes out unharmed.
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* AdaptationalRomanceDowngrade: In the comics, Sue Storm and Reed Richards are the OfficialCouple and are usually married. Seeing as this movie is an SuperheroOrigin story, they understandably don't start out as a couple, though they never develop a romantic relationship at all, with there merely being hints that Reed has feelings for Sue. It's likely this would've been expanded upon in a sequel, but for various reasons, this never happened.

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** There were plans for sequels, and at least some plot points were meant to be expanded upon in them. Due to the film's [[BoxOfficeBomb box office failure]] and the sequels being canceled, it's unlikely they'll get any kind of payoff.

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** There were plans for sequels, and at least some plot points were meant to be expanded upon in them. Due to the film's [[BoxOfficeBomb box office failure]] failure and the sequels being canceled, it's unlikely they'll get any kind of payoff.



** An odd, purely superficial change occurs to Mr. Fantastic's elastic ability. [[WordOfGod According to the creators]] Reed isn't stretching himself when he seemingly extends his limbs, but he is manipulating local spacetime due to micro-blackholes integrated with his body. The effect has it so he still looks like he is super-elastic anyway.

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** An odd, purely superficial change occurs to Mr. Fantastic's elastic ability. [[WordOfGod According to the creators]] creators, Reed isn't stretching himself when he seemingly extends his limbs, but he is manipulating local spacetime due to micro-blackholes integrated with his body. The effect has it so he still looks like he is super-elastic anyway.



* AdvertisingByAssociation: The film's trailer and poster promote "From the studio that brought you ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''", despite sharing none of the same directors, producers, writers, etc. To say that this movie [[ToughActToFollow doesn't live up]] to ''Days of Future Past'''s quality would be a big {{understatement}}.

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The film's trailer and poster promote "From the studio that brought you ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''", despite sharing none of the same directors, producers, writers, etc. To say that this movie [[ToughActToFollow doesn't live up]] up to ''Days of Future Past'''s quality would be a big {{understatement}}.



* NeverTrustATrailer: A number of previews and press releases - most notably, the first trailer - tried to sell the movie as a sci-fi movie with a large emphasis on BodyHorror, and a {{Deconstruction}} of superhero tropes. The final product is essentially standard superhero fare, although BodyHorror does play a role in the superpowers at first. There are also '''numerous''' {{Missing Trailer Scene}}s that try to make the movie look more action-oriented than it actually is, prominently teasing fight scenes between Reed and Ben and Johnny and Sue that only last seconds within the movie.

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* NeverTrustATrailer: A number of previews and press releases - most notably, the first trailer - tried to sell the movie as a sci-fi movie with a large emphasis on BodyHorror, and a {{Deconstruction}} of superhero tropes. The final product is essentially standard superhero fare, although BodyHorror does play a role in the superpowers at first. There are also '''numerous''' {{Missing Trailer Scene}}s missing trailer scenes that try to make the movie look more action-oriented than it actually is, prominently teasing fight scenes between Reed and Ben and Johnny and Sue that only last seconds within the movie.



* SpiritualSuccessor:
** Josh Trank claimed that the movie was this to his first film, ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' - the movie explores the consequences of young people with superpowers and what they would choose to do with them.
** Upon release, some have taken to comparing the movie to ''Film/{{Hulk}}''. Both films largely focus on the backstories of the characters over the superheroics themselves and are grounded in science.
** Interestingly, an argument could be made that it's one to ''Film/TheFly1986''. Both films revolve around a scientist or group of scientists inventing teleportation machines, testing it themselves, and suffering slow BodyHorror that also [[CursedWithAwesome grants them superpowers]] after a disastrous first demonstration of the teleporters GoneHorriblyWrong. Victor essentially serves the role of the Seth Brundle character, who turns into a horrific mutant that wants to take revenge on mankind after he sees the woman he loved [[GreenEyedMonster being driven into the arms of another man.]] The decision by the scientists to test the teleporters personally is even made while they're [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy three sheets to the wind]], just like Seth Brundle.



* YoungerAndHipper: The cast is considerably younger than their counterparts in the previous 3 ''Film/FantasticFour'' films, and the film itself loosely adapts the YoungerAndHipper ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' line of comics.

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* YoungerAndHipper: The cast is considerably younger than their counterparts in the previous 3 three ''Film/FantasticFour'' films, and the film itself loosely adapts the YoungerAndHipper ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' line of comics.
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The film serves as a ContinuityReboot for the ''Film/FantasticFour'' film franchise, and has no connection to the two previous [[Film/TheFantasticFour film]] [[Film/FantasticFourDuology iterations]]. Its story follows Reed Richards, a brilliant scientist researching travel into AnotherDimension. However, when a test involving him and four other subjects [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], the surviving four must adapt to their [[PowerIncontinence rapidly changing bodies]] before [[BigBadFriend the fifth survivor returns to wreak havoc]].

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The film serves as a ContinuityReboot for the ''Film/FantasticFour'' ''Fantastic Four'' film franchise, and has no connection to the two previous [[Film/TheFantasticFour film]] [[Film/FantasticFourDuology iterations]]. Its story follows Reed Richards, a brilliant scientist researching travel into AnotherDimension. However, when a test involving him and four other subjects [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], the surviving four must adapt to their [[PowerIncontinence rapidly changing bodies]] before [[BigBadFriend the fifth survivor returns to wreak havoc]].
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''Fantastic Four'', stylized as ''[[Letters2Numbers [=Fant4stic=]]]'', is a 2015 film that is very loosely adapted from Creator/MarkMillar's run on the {{superhero}} comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. It is directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame, and produced by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]]. Its cast includes Creator/MilesTeller as [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]], Creator/KateMara as Sue Storm, Creator/MichaelBJordan as Johnny Storm, Creator/JamieBell as Ben Grimm, Creator/TobyKebbell as Victor Von Doom, Creator/RegECathey as Franklin Storm, and Creator/TimBlakeNelson as Harvey Allen.

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''Fantastic Four'', stylized as ''[[Letters2Numbers [=Fant4stic=]]]'', is a 2015 film that is very loosely adapted from Creator/MarkMillar's run on the {{superhero}} comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. It is directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame, and produced by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth 20th Century Fox]]. Its cast includes Creator/MilesTeller as [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]], Creator/KateMara as Sue Storm, Creator/MichaelBJordan as Johnny Storm, Creator/JamieBell as Ben Grimm, Creator/TobyKebbell as Victor Von Doom, Creator/RegECathey as Franklin Storm, and Creator/TimBlakeNelson as Harvey Allen.



In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including Twentieth Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.

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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including Twentieth 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.



* BigBad: Doom, like in all of the [[Film/TheFantasticFour previous]] [[Film/FantasticFour2005 movies]], is the primary antagonist, but since he only appears in his final form at the end of the movie, the film has no antagonist for the first 2 acts.

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* BigBad: Doom, like in all of the [[Film/TheFantasticFour previous]] [[Film/FantasticFour2005 movies]], previous movies, is the primary antagonist, but since he only appears in his final form at the end of the movie, the film has no antagonist for the first 2 two acts.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://www.blu-rayspecialist.nl/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/fantastic_four_2015.jpg The Blu-Ray case cover]] (and many of the posters, for that matter) show off [[SceneryGorn disaster porn]] taking place in New York city around the Fantastic Four. Not only is there no such battle in the movie, but the only time there is actually a significant amount of urban destruction, '''it takes place offscreen'''!

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* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://www.blu-rayspecialist.nl/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/fantastic_four_2015.jpg The Blu-Ray case cover]] cover (and many of the posters, for that matter) show off [[SceneryGorn disaster porn]] taking place in New York city around the Fantastic Four. Not only is there no such battle in the movie, but the only time there is actually a significant amount of urban destruction, '''it takes place offscreen'''!
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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.

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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Twentieth Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.
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''Fantastic Four'', stylized as ''[[Letters2Numbers [=Fant4stic=]]]'', is a 2015 film that is very loosely adapted from Creator/MarkMillar's run on the {{superhero}} comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. It is directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame, and produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. Its cast includes Creator/MilesTeller as [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]], Creator/KateMara as Sue Storm, Creator/MichaelBJordan as Johnny Storm, Creator/JamieBell as Ben Grimm, Creator/TobyKebbell as Victor Von Doom, Creator/RegECathey as Franklin Storm, and Creator/TimBlakeNelson as Harvey Allen.

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''Fantastic Four'', stylized as ''[[Letters2Numbers [=Fant4stic=]]]'', is a 2015 film that is very loosely adapted from Creator/MarkMillar's run on the {{superhero}} comic book ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour''. It is directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame, and produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox.[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]]. Its cast includes Creator/MilesTeller as [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Reed Richards]], Creator/KateMara as Sue Storm, Creator/MichaelBJordan as Johnny Storm, Creator/JamieBell as Ben Grimm, Creator/TobyKebbell as Victor Von Doom, Creator/RegECathey as Franklin Storm, and Creator/TimBlakeNelson as Harvey Allen.
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Like ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' and ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', the movie is not part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. While the movie was originally conceived as taking place in the ''X-Men'' film continuity (which Fox also owns), it was later decided that the movie should exist in a standalone universe for the purposes of allowing greater creative freedom toward the team working on the film. Following the release of the film, the possibility of an ''X-Men'' crossover was abandoned entirely by Fox's own admission.

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Like ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' and the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', the movie is not part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. While the movie it was originally conceived as taking place in the ''X-Men'' film continuity (which Fox also owns), it was later decided that the movie should exist in a standalone universe for the purposes of allowing greater creative freedom toward the team working on the film. Following the release of the film, the possibility of an ''X-Men'' crossover was abandoned entirely by Fox's own admission.



In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.

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In November 2017, a little over two years after the movie was released, Creator/{{Disney}} revealed that they would end up buying a large portion of Fox's entertainment assets, including 20th Century Fox, and by extension, the ''Fantastic Four'' and ''X-Men'' film rights that were licensed to them. After sealing the initial deal in December 2017, Disney would complete the acquisition in March 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that there are plans to make use of the ''Fantastic Four'' IP within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, to which Creator/MarvelStudios President Creator/KevinFeige would confirm that a new film was being developed as part of Marvel's post-Phase 4 slate. It was eventually confirmed that the reboot would begin Phase 6 of the MCU, slated for release on February 14, 2025.

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