Is the post-credit faze in superhero movies coming to a close? Although this weekend’s Ant-Man has an end-credits “surprise” (two of them in fact), Avengers: Age of Ultron stuck with just one mid-credits scene and now it appears the next batter up, Fox’s Fantastic Four, doesn’t even have that in store.
Talking with MTV, The Thing himself, Jamie Bell, gave a pretty blunt answer to whether or not it’s worth holding your bladder to see what might happen after 40,000 technicians and VFX special effect artists get their recognition proceeding Josh Trank‘s latest.
There’s no post-credit sequence… It does leave the door wide open for a lot of different movies, and I think this movie really focuses on the origins of each character individually — how they get their powers, how they learn to deal with them, how they learn to harness them, how they learn how they’re stronger as four than they are as individuals — and kinda that’s where the movie ends. But there’s so much more to go from there. It really leaves the door open.
That’s basically a long-winded way to say they set up the characters, tell their origin stories again, then call it a day. Sure, there’ll be sequels if they get the cheddar they need to stabilize a franchise, but they aren’t going to try to pull people in with a few, quick-minute teases. As much as I love a good end-credit segment, that’s kinda noble.
These days, people feel so obligated to tack on these post-credit sneak peaks just for the hell of it — see Terminator Genisys for a good example of this (or, you know, don’t). Sometimes it’s nice to know the story ends when the movie closes the curtains. Even though they’re setting up for obvious sequels, hopefully there is some sense of closure for this August 7-released movie, and not just another reminder you’re watching cinematic chapters and not an individualized movie. We’ll have to see.
The bigger question remains: is this movie still going to be any good? reshoot woes suggest Trank wasn’t quite up to task to bring the elusive superhero four back to the big screen. Word-of-mouth from Comic-Con, however, suggested things looked fine for movie and, hopefully, that’s ultimately the case.
Anyway, if you want to hear the quotes from the man himself, check out the video below:
