Ever since Fox announced that they will reboot the Fantastic Four franchise, everybody believed that this will eventually lead to a crossover between the two teams owned by the studio: the above mentioned one and X-Men. And we should have expected from back then for the tone of Fantastic Four to change, to better fit a shared universe.
And now this has happened - the new iteration of Marvel's Fox's most well-known superhero team is gritty and dark, pretty much like the X-Men franchise. So when will this crossover happen?
Well, somebody seems to know.
Crossover at Fox
Fantastic Four
Latino Review believes that things are a bit uncertain at this point for this studio, as far as its superhero movies are concerned. However, while we know that we do have to wait for some time until it will happen, the crossover will eventually happen.
And it all depends on how this year's Fantastic Four will perform at the box office. The tracking for this movie suggests that it won't be a hit, even if it will most likely make its money back and then some. And if that happens, if this year's Fox superhero movie will be received well by the audiences (not necessarily the fans of the comic book characters), then the studio might just reveal its official plans for the crossover.
Distinct universes
Fantastic Four and X-Men
The fact that the Fantastic Four and the X-Men live in distinct universes is not such a big deal - after all, some sci-fi mumbo jumbo has already made travelling between the universes possible (as seen in the trailers for Fantastic Four). So who is to say that, in a crossover, Doom won't travel to the X-Men universe to take it over, with Fantastic Four jumping in to help the X-Men?
For the moment, Fox (while owning quite a few superheroes and supervillains) hasn't released yet its full slate of comic book movies. All we know is that they will make Apocalypse, Deadpool, the Wolverine sequel, Gambit, and the New Mutants. Plus, of course, the already announced sequel to Fantastic Four (due in 2017).
If everything goes well, 2018 is the best year for the crossover to happen.
