Does anyone know if Fox is planning on connecting their X-Men movies with their Fantastic Four movies, and other upcoming films?
As of a few days ago, they had these films planned:
2015
Aug 7 Fantastic Four
2016
Feb 12 Deadpool
May 27 X-Men Apocalypse
2017
March 3 Wolverine 3
July 14 Fantastic Four 2
2018
July 13 X-Men 8
Unscheduled
X-Force
Gambit
Well yesterday Fox announced some new plans, namely:
Gambit is coming October 7, 2016, starring Channing Tatum (Gambit was previously played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Fantastic Four 2 was moved up a few months to June 2 2017
It's interesting that in the "main" Marvel universe, Disney has been sure to keep all the characters played by the same actors through. Meanwhile at Fox, they've recast Gambit, Jubilee, and Kitty Pryde, among other smaller roles, and have messed with timelines and rebooting a bunch of things. It doesn't seem like Disney Marvel will be doing that any time soon, though their universe is a lot younger than Fox's which started in 2000, eight years before Iron Man kicked off Marvel's own verse!