Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-3048593-20180327225857

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: A running theory is that they got delayed so that if the merger goes through (which could be December 2018 at its earliest), both those movies will be scrapped altogether.

I'm hoping to God its true. I personally hope it happens as well (along with other planned movies like Channing Tatum's 'Gambit', James Franco's 'Multiple Man', Brian Michael Bendis' 'Shadowcat', Noah Hawley's 'Doctor Doom', Brian K. Vaughan's 'Silver Surfer', and the planned trilogies for Simon Kingberg's X-Men movies starting with 'Dark Phoenix' and Josh Boone's movies starting with 'The New Mutants'), but I wouldn't count on it.

I've also heard the main reason they keep delaying instead of just shelving them, is to keep their stocks as high as possible until the acquisition happens. Since apparently making it seem like they are still happening, is better than just openly canning them. And I bet Kinberg, Boone and the other crew and cast members wouldn't be happy learning a movie they've worked on wouldn't get theatrical releases. But I'm not gonna go so far as to say they won't be released in any form. If Disney got to decide they would probably dump them onto a streaming service.

Though at this point I don't see a reason to distrust what they're saying regarding why the movies are being delayed and the reason for the reshoots.