The Promising Future of FOX's Super Heroes

This just a part of what Fox have in hands! (Credits of the Collage to Fantastic4 News)

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" started a new era to FOX's franchise upon Marvel Comics characters.
But the destiny of their comic based universe is completely in the hands of two next movies: Fantastic Four, to be released this year in August, and X-Men Apocalypse.
These films will be the two great compass that will guide the future of mutants and the fantastic family on theaters.

Fantastic Four has the sequel confirmed to 2017, 2016 have Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse and probably Gambit solo movie, 2017 also brings the last solo of Wolverine, and 2018 has an X-Men movie at the Fox's calendar, probably the confirmed movie based on the New Mutants.

There are many rumors too, but there are questions remaining: Where exactly in the new timeline will be situated this next movies? Are they really planning a crossover between X-Men and Fantastic Four? Will Fox use all the potential teams and characters that they have in hands? Are they really willing to invest in the franchise?


Based on the news and stills, we'll continue to have two temporal lines on the franchise.
Deadpool seems to be situated in the present, Apocalypse is in the 80's. If Gambit really appears in Apocalypse, we must presume that his movie will be in 80's too. I believe the New Mutants will be in the present too, what left us with an infinity of possibilities,
Keeping this in mind, as fans, we wonder if Fox will take the chances of explore the rich universe they have in hands, maybe even bigger the universe that Marvel Studio has. Including some huge characters who composes the "outerspace" part of the comics, such as Kang, the Shi'Ar Empire, the Skrulls, Star Jammers, Silver Surfer, Galactus, etc.

The big question is: how to fit all this fantastic things in the great realistic cinematic universe created by Fox - who seems to keep following in it?

There are some things the fans are expecting to see in the future:
1 - A real Phoenix Saga
2 - The Shi'Ar Empire
3 - The X-Force
4 - Cable
5 - Galactus and the Silver Surfer
6 - The Skrulls
7 - A Crossover 'tween X-Men and FF.

Well, Fox, pay attetion because we have some amazing suggestions - just to feed your imagination with what you can do!

Working the Timelines

Maybe, the most complicated thing about the timeline of the movies is: how to built this two-lined universe?
Well, this can be a disaster or a great and rich resource to use.
Thinking about the "rumors" of different timelines in the movies, the tip is: let the chronology clear.
Work with two timelines is enough to built a good universe. So, having this new X-Men team and "retire" the veterans is a good idea, but not entirely, we need some things happening in our century.
Maybe that's exactely why Fox is working with an adult contemporary movie - Deadpool - and a "teenager" one - The New Mutants.
Talking about this, we can imagine that the same Colossus who will appear in Deadpool can have a little sister called Illyana Rasputin, who will appear in The New Mutants...

Still talking about the timelines, maybe they can use some actores of the veteran team of the trilogy to be teachers on Xavier's Institute school to Gifted Youngsters. Maybe bring back Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde and put the new Colossus on the line (we don't know how he will be introduced in Deadpool).
The timelines can work together without many problems, but always maintaining coherence to avoid continuity errors that happened in past films, and taking care of the surprise element: you can have two timelines, but be careful with "spoilers" of the past in the movies of the future...

The Teams

We have two confirmed teams: the X-Men in the 80's and the New Mutants - we hope in nowadays.

The new X-Men can have sequels from Apocalypse with new villains and new conflicts. Maybe a "third-shared-trilogy" started in Apocalypse (which is the conclusion of another team). From Apocalypse, Fox can work with the most popular X-Men team ever, except for Rogue and Logan: Cyclops, Storm, Jean, Jubilee (who can make the Kitty Pryde role of the comics), Beast, Psylocke, Angel and Nightcrawler. And Quicksilver of course, who can be a part of a new Brotherhood of mutants or an X-Men. And we can think about Wanda too... And why not bring Dazzler to this universe? She's perfect for the 80's and everyone knows it!
With this team and what they bringing with Apocalypse, Fox have infinite possibilities.

They can work with the conflicts between X-Men and the Morlocks - we have Caliban and Storm in Apocalypse, right?
They can work with Mr. Sinister as a Apocalypse follower (and he can be an enemy to Gambit movie too).
They can work with The Fall of the Mutants, Mutant Massacre and even with Extinction Agenda.
They can work with a start to make an House of M thing, bringing Wanda to this Universe (and this would be AWESOME).
AND they can introduce the Phoenix saga, but we talk about it later in this text.

The New Mutants, which will be directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), may have to be some of the actors from the trilogy. My bet goes to the younger ones, like Rogue, Kitty and Bobby.
And OBVIOUSLY Colossus. Why?
Just because Illyana Rasputin, his sister, is one of the main characters of the New Mutants - and if Fox don't want to work with Limbo and mystical things, they can use the Negative Zone from Fantastic Four as a substitute to the Limbo.
Some things that I'll be talking about down in this text may help them to introduce Warlock in the team, Sunspot already have shown his face in DOFP and can be here again, Magma, Cannonball, Karma, Wolfsbane... This can be a great team to this movie.

The fact that we have in Deadpool movie Colossus as a important character, and Archangel and Psylocke in Apocalypse, we can't avoid the thought of a X-Force movie.
If we remember that X-Force was recruited by Cable and one of their Nemesis was exactly the Akkaba sect - followers of Apocalypse - we can think that Fox can work with a direct connection of a X-Force movie with X-Men Apocalypse. Even in the "future" timeline they can work with an older version of Archangel, a clever excuse to the good shape of Psylocke after decades, the new Colossus, the insane Deadpool, Apache (who appeared in DOFP) and Domino, leaded by Cable.

Talking about Deadpool, we remember of Gambit and Wolverine solo movies.
Gambit have an rich story to explore and can be integrated into the universe even in his solo movies. Storm, Rogue or Mr. Sinister are strong related ones to them.
The Wolverine 2 may have to be a movie with special guests from another X-Men Movies to star in the film. I keep thinking that an adaptation from Uncanny X-Men #172 and #173 would be AWESOME.

About Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four is coming and, even with the early negative comments, now the expectations are high and we all curious about this movie. Reading the Ultimate version of the team in comics, I get excited about the movie. In this upcoming movie Dr. Doom is the main villain and we have the presence of Harvey Elder (who, in the comics, become the villain known as Mole Man). What make us wonder what's coming next in Fantastic Four 2, already confirmed to 2017.
We hope that Fox keep Galactus and the Silver Surfer hidden in easter eggs and references at least until the third movie of the team and that we have some references to the X-Men in the movies too.
What brings us to the BIG question: what reference Fox can use to do the crossover between the teams?
Well, first, we'll have to talk about outterspace...

Aliens and Spaceships can be in a Realistic Universe

First thing to do is establish a shared universe between the movies. Of course, in the beginning this will be just with easter eggs and references.

The perfect way to introduce the outterspace universe is in the Fantastic Four, for many reasons: the next movie of the Four seems to focus on the sci-fi side of the family. This is interesting. They are the pathfinders of science of comics - and except for the Shi'ar Empire, Falange and the Star Jammers, all the alien villains and characters  who's with Fox are originally Fantastic Four villains.

Maybe the alien thing can be introduced in X-Men Apocalypse, if we think that En Sabah Nur has his contacts with outterspace, but maybe they don't want to do this yet. What is such a pity...
We have from Bryan Singer a instagram shoot with Scott and Alex's parents, what made the fans ask: what about the Star Jammers?
We hope they're adopted the Summer's brothers, because we really want to see the Star Jammers on movies and I'll tell you how.

Star Jammers is a team with no big background and history, just as Christopher Summers (Corsair), is an interesting character reduced to "Summers' Father" sometimes, what gives Fox a huge oportunity to get in the wave of outterspace adventures (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars or the other side ones like Prometheus, Interestellar, Gravity and The Martian).
With Star Jammers, Fox can do a clever midpoint between the adventure and the sci-fi genres, making a great introduction to spaceships and aliens in their Universe AND introduce X-Men and FF in the same universe. How?

An interesting plot - that's NOT in the comics - may put Christopher Summers as an aeronautics major who is contacted by a secret government program that wants him to train new pilots for spaceships, created to explore the Universe, after hear about his improvisation skills in emergency situations. Looking for the signals of intelligent life in a distant planet captured by the team of the young scientist Dr. Franklin Storm (There it is!), they design a plan to make an exploratory mission to this planet. In the middle of the experiments they accidentally send a signal to an unknown code that belongs to Shi'ar Empire, ruled by the tyrant D'Ken, who breaks their security system and finds their plans for the mission. D'Ken isn't interested in the Planet Earth, but he wants to pull down their plans of getting Shi'ar, so he shuns their plan and and vows to capture these scientists and their families. All of this can be made in an introduction or presented in a short explanation in another point of the movie - maybe a flashback, a plot twist... Whatever.
In this point the story meets the comics again: trying to run from D'Ken, Summers flies with his family to a "vacation", but in the middle of the scape, a Shi'ar scout ship intercepts the fly - that's when Christopher sends Scott and Alex with the parachutes out from the plane.
Christopher and his wife are captured by D'Ken, and she is killed by him in front of Summers, who is condemned to work in the mine, where he meets the ones who will help him escape from the mines.
In the middle of the point they are intercepted by Lilandra, sister of the Emperor, who helps them to run and ask their help to get the throne, cause D'Ken wants to use the Crystal that the slaves was searching for in their mines to make from Shi'Ar an universal empire, but he don't know that the crystal can destroy their world. But D'Ken discovers their plan and, in the final battle, he condemn Lilandra to exile and send her to earth with the Star Jammers.
The end of the movie can be the door to the meeting between the team and the X-Men from 80's timeline.

Introducing the X-Men to Shi'Ar Empire

It's fact that we want to see some things in "earth" before get the X-Men into the space.
So, after Acpocalypse, Fox have to use the team against some another villain, maybe following the steps and the ideas we gave before, in the section about the teams. My suggestion is introduce William Striker quickly, when he looks for Charles to "cure" his son - Jason - from his mutation.
Professor can't help him with this and Jason starts to torn things apart on Xavier's School, including being in love with Jean and trying to get Cyclops crazy, so Striker takes Jason from Xavier's Institute and give him to the Hellfire Club - maybe it's a good time to bring Emma Frost back as the White Queen (the explanation to her comeback is simple: the experiments of Trask left her stucked on her diamond form for a long period, so she didn't age).
So, in a third movie, perhaps, the X-Men get astonished with a contact made by Lilandra to Professor X asking him to help her and her fellas to get the throne of Shi'ar and take it from Daken.
At this point the Star Jammers come to earth with Lilandra to take the X-Men with them, then two important things happens: the meeting of Summers' family, and Jean's transformation into the Phoenix - it could be an echo of we've seen in X2, but now in the outterspace, in the middle of the travel to Shi'ar - Jean use her powers to protect all of them from a radioactive storm, and this storm transforms her.
So the climax would be in Shi'ar, with a war. X-Men and Star Jammers and Lilandra's followers, versus the troops of D'Ken.
Jean uses her overpowered skills to put the M'Kraan Crystal back on it's place.
On this movie, maybe a great thing to do is reference other things like Skrulls - maybe even put some of them in the final battle.
Of course, the script have to be too much clever to not force anything to the audience. Somethings just can't be like in the comics, but based on this rough, can be born a great movie to introduce one of the best stories of the X-Men:

Phoenix Rises

Jean Grey is passing through a crisis after her change in the outterspace. Scott can't help her because he is in crisis too. He just had to rebuilt himself after discovers that his father was alive all this time.
Jean asks a vacation to the Professor, but in her path, she meets Jason again, who uses his power to make her a wife.
In this process she lost the control and turns into the Dark Phoenix...

Introducing the Crossover

The crossover between Fantastic Four and X-Men can be made in the present, but to make sense, it has to be built carefuly along all the movies. Even if this meeting happens in nowadays, the scripts of the early movies have to be aware of the future meeting.
That's why I suggested the meeting between Franklin Storm and Christopher Summers in the 60's/70's.
There are many ways to make a crossover between the teams.
The most obvious is take that "Fantastic Four vs X-Men" saga when the X-Men asked help from Reed Richards to cure Kitty Pryde who was wounded in a battle at The Mutant Massacre (and this makes we think that The New Mutants movie - or a sequel to it - can be the path to introduce the plot), but Richards is insecure with many things and the Fantastic Four is crisis. It's the oportunity to Dr. Doom shows that he is better than Richards and offers his help to the mutants.
This put the two teams in conflict and creates one of the most visceral and deep crossovers from Marvel Universe.

But Fox can think more.
Doom is already a villain in the next movie of Fantastic Four. What about introduce in a sequel to this movie the clue to a political plot of conspiracy with outterspace?
And this conspiracy put the Skrulls in the game, making of the crossover not just a crossover, but an epic battle that puts X-Men and Fantastic Four against each other and after puts them against an entire alien kind who wants to rule the world.
That's a fantastic idea don't you think?

Otherwise, Fox have too many things to explore from now. Including something that I dream to see in movies, which is a House of M adaptation... What do you think?