Director Bryan Singer Confirms 'X-Men' and 'Fantastic Four' Crossover Movie

In a recent interview, Singer the match-up is a natural fit and that the plot would deal with "time."

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Crossovers can be great; just ask the hopefully still forthcoming 21 Jump Street / Men in Black cinematic marriage. Of course, crossovers can also be downright unsettling in their putrid awfulness — the reigning example of which is the heinous act of musical misguidedness from Brad Paisley and LL Cool J known as "Accidental Racist," a crossover so egregiously shitty that simply typing it out causes me great distress. Thankfully, the long-rumored X-Men / FantasticFour crossover would (if handled with care) most certainly avoid such a fate.

X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer recently expressed confidence in the manifestation of those rumors, tellingYahoo! Movies that the crossover is definitely in development. "Those ideas are in play," says Singer. "That would be a natural match-up because they’re both ensemble films and there is a natural mechanism by which to do it. It deals with time. That's all I'm going to say." Time, of course, is the brilliantly convenient plot mechanism by which any conceivable crossover is made painlessly possible.

Singer previously toyed with the boundaries (or lack thereof) of time in X-Men: Days of Future Past, a reinvigorating entry in the lucrative franchise. The Fantastic Four reboot — starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell with direction from Josh Trank — arrives on August 7.

 

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