Fantastic Four: X-Men Crossover Presents Major Hurdle, Team Isn't Called Fantastic Four in the Movie

During an interview with IGN, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Fanastic Four writer/producer Simon Kinberg revealed yet more pieces of information likely to make comic book fans recoil away from the upcoming reboot of Marvel's First Family. When star Kate Mara made her earlier comments that she isn't even sure there were superhero costumes, per se, in Fantastic Four, most fans took for granted that, ultimately, there would of course be some kind of costumes and that she was either trying to maintain the surprise or else unclear on certain elements of the movie since they hadn't yet started shooting. Kinberg, though, told IGN that the group's identity will not be fully forged by the end of the film -- that they won't be "celebrity superheroes" and, in fact, will not even be called the Fantastic Four on film. "This Fantastic Four movie is in some ways a reboot and in other ways just a stand-alone origin story. By the end of the movie, we don't call them the Fantastic Four, they're not celebrity superheroes. The tone of the movie is much more grounded and real and gritty -- more in the direction of Chronicle than in the direction of the original Fantastic Four movies." He said it's the story of how five people go from being normal people to being transformed into something superhuman, and that they're drawing "some" from Ultimate Fantastic Four and some from throughout the property's history. Kinberg also somewhat burst the bubble of those hoping for an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover film, saying that while Fox owns both properties, they aren't being treated as existing in the same world and any crossover would likely have to tackle the idea that the two teams exist in different dimensions. "The idea of potentially having a crossover movie is very appealing but we'd have to figure it out, because there's an inherent challenge to combining Fantastic Four and X-Men in the movie universe because they sort of exist in different planes or dimensions even," Kinberg said. "In the Fantastic Four world, it's a contemporary world, there's no mention of mutants because otherwise they wouldn't be that 'fantastic.' And in the X-Men world, as we've seen, there aren't famous, celebrity-superhero Fantastic Four."