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Ocarina_117

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Oct 26, 2017
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This looks like a nonsense rumor based on nothing.

Having said that, I'm all for canning these movies and maybe Deadpool 3 as well. Focus on getting the MCU to 4 movies a year, no need to spend any more time on Fox's work.

Why DP3? Both films have been amazing and it would be a shame to lose Reynolds as Deadpool.

I'm stoked to see Feige and co get their hands on the villains Fox owns, more so than the x-men and the fantastic four.
 

Window

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Oct 27, 2017
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It's further said that both movies are atrocious (worse than Fantastic Four) with a bad storyline and acting, and that the cancellation announcement will come after this Friday's shareholders vote.
That's hard to believe, given the X-Men films of the past which while have been uneven in quality haven't produced anything as bad as that (Wolverine Origins excepting).
 

SteveWD40

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Oct 29, 2017
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I almost feel bad for Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, GoT ending and both their film careers seemingly hinging on these two films...
 

Blade30

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Oct 26, 2017
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March 2017 and April 2017 respectively.

Yeah both of them will tank, the whole delay and re-shoots plus Simon Kinberg as a first time director for Dark Phoenix and one of the writers of Last Stand don't really give much hope. I wouldn't be surprised if either or both were shelved.
 

Miles X

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Oct 27, 2017
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I don't trust this source at all. You'd have too stupid to shelve these projects after sinking that much money into them.

Disney haven't spent a cent on these films. They would be stupid to release a bad X-men film and futher damage the brand when they are going to reboot it. Look at the damage Justice League did.
 
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I hope so. Those movies look like turds.

Dark Phoenix is also not on 21CF release schedule even though New Mutants is. Write off those sunk costs and be done with that dumpster fire. If anything release it on hulu or disney streaming and get on with it.
 

Vic_Viper

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Oct 25, 2017
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This just reads like some fan speculating. I mean I would rather they just shelved both of these movies too, but its not going to happen lol.

The whole thing with New Mutants sounded like it ran into the same problems as Suicide Squad. Even before this article came out, we had known about some reshoots that brought the movie closer to the Director's original intent.

  • Marvel Studios already has plans "unofficially" for Fox-owned characters such as Silver Surfer and Galactus.
  • X-Force is said to possibly be retitled by Disney as "Deadpool 3: X-Force," and may feature New Mutants characters, but not Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik due to her having issues with another member of the cast.
  • Regarding introducing the Mutants into the MCU, The Eternals movie will somehow do that.

And these are all no brainers lol.
 

Ragnarsson

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Oct 27, 2017
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I don't believe any of this. New Mutants I could see being released as a straight-to-streaming film, but Dark Phoenix sounds like too big of an investment to drop... even if it was as bad as Fantastic Four.
 

TheZynster

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Oct 26, 2017
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good, dark phoenix was probably just going to ruin the X-Men name more.....Apocalypse was absolute garbage
 

SamAlbro

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Oct 25, 2017
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These two movies together represent something in the neighbourhood of $300 million in production costs. They will be released, even if they were as bad as this fake leaker claims.

It depends. If they are considered to be a possible detriment to the future MCU movies, they won't get a theatrical release. Maybe straight to Hulu.

Successful MCU X-Men movies stand to make Disney more money than they'd lose by shelving two Fox movies that they didn't even put up the money for.
 

CoolestSpot

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Oct 25, 2017
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This malarkey. Disney has no say for 2 years, and fox put too much money into both for them not to see light before coming out.

Still crazy Ant Man of all things introduced mutants
 

BenRoderick

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Oct 27, 2017
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I remember Kevin Feige said that when the rights of X-Men, Fantastic Four and the other Marvel superhero properties that were owned by 20th Century Fox are given to Marvel Studios and of course Disney, they will give their control after the Fox-Disney deal is done.
So, it's obviously fake.
 

Mobu

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Oct 28, 2017
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Wouldnt Disney making decisions before the merge is complete be pretty illegal? Seems like the bigger news to me
 

MMarston

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Oct 27, 2017
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Disney haven't spent a cent on these films. They would be stupid to release a bad X-men film and futher damage the brand when they are going to reboot it. Look at the damage Justice League did.
Disney doesn't give a rats ass or have any say about the X-Men right now. Their plans for them are likely pretty far away before they're realized.

Fox is going to release these films, one way or another.
 

TheIlliterati

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Oct 28, 2017
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There's zero chance that Anya Taylor Joy would be the actor to get dumped if someone else was a problem on set. She's going to be huge.
 

Window

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Oct 27, 2017
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I know posters here only like MCU Marvel films and couldn't care less about the release of these films but it would be shame for all that work put in by everyone in production to not see the light of day honestly, even if the end result is mediocre.
 

LewieP

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Oct 26, 2017
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Cancelling dark pheonix is also probably one easy way to get around having to release a movie which they will likely be legally obligated to give Bryan Singer a producer's credit on.
 

Slayven

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Oct 25, 2017
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nah, no way they would scrap two finished movies. No one wants that hit on their books
 

Llyrwenne

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Oct 26, 2017
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It seems there are no credible sources for this rumor at this time.
 
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