That Rumored X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR Crossover Probably Isn't Happening




Right about now this headline may read more like an obvious statement than actual news. That rumored X-MEN and FANTASTIC FOUR crossover movie teased by X-MEN: APOCALYPSE director Bryan Singer last month probably won't happen.

FANTASTIC FOUR producers told New York Daily News that both of 20th Century Fox's Marvel franchises exist in different universes.

"They exist in parallel universes," 'Fantastic Four' producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker told the Daily News in a joint email. "The Fantastic 4 live in a world without mutants. And the X-Men live in a world without the Fantastic 4."

This statement came out earlier this week. Now, FANTASTIC FOUR is not meeting initial opening weekend projections and it's being reported by Variety box office projections have dropped from $45 million to a $30 million opening weekend based on low Friday ticket estimates.

If FANTASTIC FOUR can miraculously break even in the box office, Fox could still pursue this crossover (instead of FANTASTIC FOUR 2) to give Marvel's first family the 'X-MEN bump' to help its box office popularity. Kinberg and Parker said these two franchises exist in different universes but Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom did invent an inter-dimensional travel machine. And whose to say that machine can't also travel to other universes. Just saying.