After the recent reboot of 'Fantastic Four' having been both a critical and box office bomb, plans for the sequel were quickly quashed once the results were heard. However, writer Simon Kinberg still remains faithful that a sequel may be a possibility. He states, "We?ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely, well, not completely, but largely, distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funnier, and more optimistic [in] tone.