Kevin Feige Provides Update On The Status Of ‘Inhumans’; Debunks Rumors

We’ll see. If this was a project they wanted to make in order to grow their brand, I don’t think they would see it as the perfect property to continually push back. I don’t think they would allow it to be introduced on television and then wait 6 or more years to even mention the concept to the movie audience.

My guess is that the movie is a placeholder for a mutant movie Marvel hopes to negotiate with Fox once Fox realizes they have nowhere left to go in the universe they recreated as a series of period pieces in First Class.

Nah, I don’t particularly like the Mutants. The allegory has always seemed too on the nose for effective storytelling that doesn’t always fall back on the same thing again and again and again. I don’t particularly care if Marvel ever retains rights for the movies. I just acknowledge that there may be an opening coming where Fox will consider a connection with Marvel’s universe to be an interesting opportunity. At the moment, even though Deadpool made way more money than expected and Apocalypse will likely be a hit, it’s not clear where they go with the broader group from here. In Apocalypse, Professor X should be nearing 60. The guy who plays him is 36. They’re about to have to recast Logan. That’s not a sustainable formula.The logical conclusion is that a reboot is coming. It’s just a question of when and how. While I don’t care if Marvel ever gets a piece of the Mutants back, I think Marvel does, and I think they will at least try to convince Fox that it’s time to work together on the Mutants and FF.

We can say that there’s no way Fox would be keen to listen, but who among us really though Sony would go along?

As for the Inhumans, it’s not a question of whether there are interesting stories to tell. It’s a question of whether there’s any sense of urgency at Marvel to tell those stories. Because when they want to make a movie (e.g., GotG 2), you know it.

It’s preposterous to compare a new IP to a sequel for successful movie. Gunn had an idea for the sequel, they got a script done and they had their cast ready.

First, I’m not comparing the movie A to movie B. I’m comparing the sense of urgency the studio has when it comes to making movie A or movie B. When they want to make a movie, they get it made. It is as simple as that. When they aren’t so sure about something, even if they have a director on board, they let it sit in development indefinitely. They were talking about Ant-Man and how great Edgar Wright was for years–right up until the point that they fired him and hired the guy who made the Break-Up to replace him. The only reason that movie got made was because they didn’t want to eat all of the money they spent developing it.

Right now, Inhumans is just a name on a board. It’s notably the only name on the board that it seems Marvel is ready to push behind the major event they’ve been building to since the beginning of their universe, which is to say that there was no need to have the Inhumans for Infinity War. It is the most likely movie to be pushed the moment the studio orders a sequel to Doctor Strange or Black Panther or any other movie released in the next 2.5 years.

Fox has sustained their X-universe through 16 years and their most recent movie was their most successful. They aren’t going to surrender anything because they don’t have to.

I’m not saying that Fox is going to do anything. I’m saying they have every bit as much reason to consider it as Sony did. Sony didn’t have to throw up their hands on Spider-Man. Those movies were still making money. They were not doing as well as the early Raimi movies had done, but they could have gone forward and continued to make money. They just didn’t know what to do with them. Fox finds itself in a different kind of problem financially but a very similar one conceptually. The problem being that outside of the freak success of Deadpool (a movie they didn’t want to make in the first place), they have no idea what to do with their Marvel properties. That they don’t know what they have with the Fantastic Four goes without saying, but let’s focus on the Mutant properties. The continuity of the X-Men movies makes no sense and it’s only getting worse as the series progresses. The lead actor in 90 percent of their X-Men movies is too old to play the character, whereas the lead actors in the rest of the movies are too young to play theirs. They’ve just retconned their entire universe but are still trapped narratively in the 1980s. And then there’s Gambit…sigh. Outside of the money, they have every reason to think about talking to Marvel about a partnership, and the money thing can be worked out if Marvel focuses primarily on the larger properties (i.e., X-Men and the Fantastic Four).

Obviously, I’m not saying it’s going to happen. But if it did, do you think an Inhumans movie gets made? Inhumans is an idea Marvel will go to when they have no other alternative. They introduced it on television for a reason.

Dude, Kevin Feige said he wanted to do a Black Widow movie. This was before they were announcing their calendar years in advance, but he said they wanted to do it but that Avengers had to come first. It’s safe to say at this point that it’s never going to happen.

If your entire belief system is that 1. You want an Inhumans movie and 2. Kevin Feige said you were going to get one, you’re not really in a position to question my logic. Indeed, I’m the only one saying that anything is uncertain. And that’s literally all I’m saying. That’s not faulty logic. It’s living in the real world. Nobody’s ever going to tell you they aren’t making a movie they told you they were going to make until they have something to replace it with. They will just push it back and offer empty praise of the movie that doesn’t exist. So with Inhumans, it really is best to assume it’s not coming until they have given you something more.

As for Fox, how do you think they feel about Fantastic Four, a movie they will have to reboot again in a few years to retain the rights to? And where do you think they go next with the X-Men? The 1990s? When James McAvoy will have to play a man in his 60s? This isn’t about what they made two years ago. Or what they will make this year. That money is made. This is about the movies they make two, four, six years from now. Now, Fox has never been all that concerned with making good Mutant movies, so maybe they cling to the property and think their full cut of a crap Mutant movie is better than their partial cut of a better Mutant movie that can incorporate elements and characters from the MCU and then their partial cut of Marvel movies that use their
characters…I’m thinking it’s something the Holland Spider-Man will have them wondering. Especially when they have a lot of characters they have no use for but that Marvel would love to use but can’t (e.g., Fantastic Four, Doom, Kang, the Skrulls, Silver Surfer, Galactus).

Fox has already shown a willingness to let some of the characters they have revert to Marvel, but they now know that Marvel and Disney could be keen for a partnership right around the time where a partnership will feel advantageous for both of them (i.e., when the current X-Men roster is due for a reboot or widespread recasting and when it’s time for them to be putting a new Fantastic Four into development).

Maybe it doesn’t happen. I’m not saying it will. I’m saying it makes sense for both companies. And will really make sense for both companies this time three or four years from now.

I’m sorry if that conflicts with your desire for an Inhumans movie. As I said, I couldn’t care less if there was another Mutant movie at all. I’d like to see somebody do a good Fantastic Four, but I’m not convinced that property can be made into a good movie. I suspect Marvel would like to try, and I think it’s only one of several properties they currently don’t own the rights to that they’d rather do than Inhumans.