Just last week, an Internet rumor had Fox so unhappy with the direction of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four that they had fired him and his newly announced cast (Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell). Obviously that wasn’t true, as Fox has already locked down a release date for a sequel. Who knows whether Trank and company will be involved, but The Fantastic Four 2 will come out on July 14, 2017 (the first FF reboot comes out June 19 of next year).
But wait! There’s more! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox also set a date for the sequel to James Mangold’s The Wolverine, which will open on March 3, 2017 (a little less than a year after X-Men: Apocalypse, on May 26, 2016). Taken 3, starring Liam Neeson and his very takeable family, opens on January 9, 2015, while Frankenstein with Daniel Radcliffe moves to October 2, 2015, and another comic-book adaptation, The Secret Service from the Kick-Ass team of director Matthew Vaughn and graphic novelist Mike Millar, slides up from 2015 to October 24 of this year.
Intriguingly, Fox also teased some upcoming “mystery” movies as well; something from Ridley Scott (a Prometheus sequel?) is coming on March 4, 2016, while an “untitled Marvel film” will open on July 13, 2018. That’s a pretty choice summer release date, so you have to imagine it’s a big movie—possibly yet another X-Men sequel or maybe an adaptation of another one of the X-Men teams from the comic books, something like X-Factor (sort of like the X-Men, but with more government involvement) or New Mutants (sort of like the X-Men, but with more YA flavor), or X-Force (sort of like the X-Men, but with more guns, scars, and scowls).