Can Marvel help the Fantastic Four get their powers back?

Marvel has always wanted to wrest big-screen power over the superhero family from rival Fox.

Now it just might have the chanceIn a 1963 issue of the Fantastic Four comics, the awesome foursome successfully defeat the nefarious Super-Skrull (who had a combination of all the team’s superpowers) by blocking an energy beam from the alien’s home planet.

Perhaps Marvel was inspired by the move in 2015 when it cancelled the original comic book series just as rival film studio 20th Century Fox was set to release its doomed Fantastic Four reboot on the big screen.

The cancellation, you might say, effectively blocked any much-needed publicity Fox’s film-makers had hoped for.Marvel’s move was sparked, according to more recent reports, by Fox’s determination to retain rights to Fantastic Four (and the X-Men) provided it continued to release new films.

But Marvel was getting nowhere in its negotiations

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