Should The Fantastic Four Sequel Feature Namor Or The Silver Surfer?

       

          Fantastic Four is yet to open to theaters this August 7, but 20th Century Fox already has plans on having a sequel set for release on 2017. The verdict might still be up whether the Fantastic Four reboot delivers both critically and financially, but if it does there's no escaping the thought of what the future might hold for the newly rebooted franchise. Which villain should the Fantastic Four face for the sequel? The cast has some ideas on who it should be.

The reboot will introduce us to perhaps the most famous villain that the Fantastic Four has ever faced, Dr. Doom, but it will also set up one character that will probably be back for the sequel. Tim Blake Nelson is set to play the Mole Man, but we will see him first in the movie as a politician involved with the team. Whether he would play the main villain for the sequel is still up to debate, but he has confirmed on signing on for future installments.

In an interview with Comicbook.com, Jamie Bell - the actor who plays Ben Grimm aka The Thing - wants to see one character back in the big screen. "You can't get away from Silver Surfer. I know chronologically speaking that was the next villain in the previous franchise but I think Silver Surfer is cool looking." The Silver Surfer is one of the most iconic characters in Marvel, so it's no surprise that some would want to revisit his character. But after the less than stellar sequel of the previous Fantastic Four franchise, it's obvious that Fox would want to steer away from that direction.

Michael B. Jordan ( Johnny Storm / The Human Torch) on the other hand would like to see another mutant in Fantastic Four 2, one that could possibly work in the right hands. "Namor is a cool one." The actor said. "By far, he's the strongest mutant. You know what I'm saying? Maybe not by far, but he's the strongest mutant. It would be a pretty interesting battle, the Fantastic Four vs. Namor."

As of yet however, it could be hard to have the Submariner appear in the sequel considering the rights for Namor are currently owned by Universal Studios. If they do plan on bringing him to the fold, they would have to make a deal with Universal, possibly the same as what Marvel did with Sony to bring Spider-Man to the filming location of Captain America: Civil War.

So far it's all just speculation, as the sequel is far from starting production, even more to have a filming location announced. We'll see how the reboot goes, and then maybe we can start speculation on what the sequel would bring. The sequel is set to release on June 9th, 2017. For now, catch the first superhero family battle Doom when Fantastic Four comes to theaters on August 7, 2015.

Fantastic Four's Doctor Doom Wants To Destroy The Avengers In Marvel Universe

The Fantastic Four reboot is about to premiere in a few weeks, and comic book fans will finally get a chance to see Director Josh Trank's take on the much younger versions of the four heroes. There are however a few concerns regarding the film, not just in the heroes but in their main villain, the team's arch-enemy from the start - Doctor Doom. We first got a look at him when a photo from the filming location was released online wearing the iconic Doom garb, now we're close to seeing him in the big screen.


He was previously played by Julian Mcmahon in the 2005 franchise, and although the film was a critical failure it did gave us a Doom that was just as crazy as in the comics. Now that Trank aims to reboot the franchise with younger characters, he has cast Toby Kebbell, from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes fame, to bring the character to the big screen.

As fans have set their eyes in the impending battle of Doom against the Fantastic Four (which is going to be epic according to Trank), Toby Kebbell apparently has his goal of fighting even greater battles. CinemaBlend sat down with him at Comic-Con to talk about the future potential of the franchise, and the fact that Doctor Doom was the main villain of Marvel's first family. Here's what he has to say: "He's pretty much THE Marvel villain".

He continued on to explain "You know he destroys Thor. He punches up all those people. I don’t know what the political… I can’t get into this. You’re going to write this, and I’m going to get destroyed. They’re going to sue me, but look: can someone at Marvel and someone at Fox talk, and with Doom, just lend him out, like football? You can have him for the World Cup, that’s it! Then just let me go - let me go and destroy Thor, for goodness sake. I’d love to work with those boys."

Kebbell isn't the first actor in the Fox franchise to express this idea that they make a deal with Marvel. Hugh Jackman also talked about his role as Wolverine and how he would love to see a crossover between these two worlds. There were even rumors that he was at one point on the filming location of Avengers, but that wasn't confirmed. And now that Marvel is working with Sony to bring Spider-Man to the fold, it's only a matter of time before Fox start to consider this idea.

In a perfect world where different studios didn't own the rights for different characters, there probably would be no Thanos for the third film. We would have Doctor Doom. He is one of the most complicated, intelligent and egomaniacal supervillain, not to mention the most dangerous in the Marvel universe. He's been a trouble for many superheroes from the comics that it would be a brilliant show to see if they ever adapt him for the Marvel movies. But since this isn't a perfect world, that likely wouldn't happen.

If Fox ever do consider the thought, it would probably be for a long time since they've just started their Fantastic Four reboot. It's more likely that Fox has other plans for their franchises, probably making a crossover event with the X-Men and Fantastic Four in the future.

Catch Toby Kebbell as Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four, which opens to theaters on August 7, 2015.