The Fantastic Four is getting it’s sequel. Once again proving the mathamatical equation: $56 million boxoffice on opening weekend (nullifying the “bad reviews” integer) + cast already signed = sequels. It’s just plain math folks.
As I said in my video review of Fantastic Four, it’s a poor movie… but at the same time it was pretty fun. Some good laughs, decent special effects and ok action. I guess that’s exactly what audiences were starving for. Throw in the fact that it’s a pretty family friendly film and you’ve got yourselves a LOT of money. The good folks over at MovieHole give us this:
Avi Arad, chairman of Marvel and all-round studio spruiker, tells The Los Angeles Times that because of the numbers – the sequel is a sure-thing now. “Of Course there will be a sequel”, he tells the paper. “Now the constituency is much larger”.
From an artistic point of view, the idea of a Fantastic Four sequel doesn’t really get me all that excited… however… from a business point of view they would have to be brain dead to not shoot a sequel at this point. It’s like printing free money. Who doesn’t want free money?
