Fox wants more X-Men and Daredevil for Summer Cash!

Variety talked with Fix to see how they intend to beef up their slate due to this year’s dismal summer action:

Though Fox has no plans for a major overhaul, the studio has scheduled a strategy meeting to assess the status of its superheroes, a group sorely missed this summer. On the agenda, Fox will mull the possibility of more X-Men spinoffs, including a young-X-Men project as well as Deadpool, based on a character played by Ryan Reynolds in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The studio is even considering reviving the Daredevil property.

“I don’t see Fox changing anything,” says producer-manager JC Spink. “Just because it didn’t work this summer doesn’t mean they should change anything. Everyone has an off season. But look at how many summers in a row it has worked for them.”

And on paper, the year-end looks good with Australia and Marley & Me, and so does next summer, with the studio releasing no fewer than three tentpoles: X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian on Memorial Day weekend and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on the Fourth of July weekend.

The thing is I am not opposed to more X-Men especially with the Wolverine project looking as good as it did in the Comic-Con footage. Deadpool is a great way to go and so is Magneto. Daredevil on the other hand has been a project I have always been against. The 2003 movie sucks, Statham would do nothing for the character except look good in a suit. Even with the way Bendis and Brubaker have been writing the chracter right now to me Daredevil is lame and not something I would prefer to see on screen but thats just me!

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Kevin has been a film fan his entire life and it is the one thing he truly loves to talk about. He considers himself an industry critic rather than a film critic. This is because he likes analyzing the news, the process of a film’s production, the film business aspects and the trends, rather than the finished product, although that doesn’t keep him from doing a movie review. His current day job is a Marketing Communications Coordinator for a real estate development and hospitality management company based in Memphis, TN. He is also a freelance social media consultant, pr guru. He is a contributing writer at Geeks of Doom under the pseudonym, “Graceland Geek”. He is obsessed with Batman, pairs of “Chucks” Converse shoes, being the next big PR and Advertising Executive of a major company and he loves XBOX 360, soccer and the guitar. Email him at - kcoll@fusedfilm.com

2 Responses to “ Fox wants more X-Men and Daredevil for Summer Cash! ”

  1. FOX is ran by people who do not give a fuck. If they gave a fuck. They would, I dont know, try harder with their genre properties. If you notice. They really do not try all that hard, and this leads to crap genre fare.

    So they can have a meeting, but nothing changes until Rothman is given a window seat. If you push him out of the way and let some young exec into the material guide these genre films. FOX will be in the money. Seeing as this will never happen. FOX are on the outside looking in with genre fare and will suffer because of it over the coming years.

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