Fox is Rebooting Fantastic Four

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Kazenji
http://www.superherohype.com/news/fantasticfournews.php?id=8647

-Pr-
cool.

Kazenji
Indeed if Michael Green is writing.

starlock
I loved the first 2 FF movies.......yeah it had its downside as well as good...but i found the overall films to be very good..i hope they keep the same cast, i think it worked well.

steverules_2
If we get galactus and Doom, I hope they look better than last time

Bouboumaster
The actors were ok, but damn, they have to do something with Richards and Doom.

Richards was there almost like a cameo and Doom... What was that origin story!?

WhoopeeDee
There are two ways to reboot...

One way is the Batman Reboot.

The other way is the Punisher Reboot.

So...which one will they go with? (mind you Punisher is been rebooted enough times)

Kris Blaze
Thank god.

****ing awful movies.

Bouboumaster
Originally posted by WhoopeeDee
There are two ways to reboot...

The other way is the Punisher Reboot.



What's the problem with the Punisher Reboot?

SnakeEyes
I'm weary about Fox, but whatever, the first two FF films sucked a lot, so I'll give another a shot.

BruceSkywalker
They better make these movies hard R then big grin stick out tongue because that is the only way i will them... I guess Donald Duck will guest star as well laughing laughing laughing


Breaking News: Miley Cyrus has just been casted as Sue Storm laughing laughing laughing

The Nuul
Two was horrid, the first one was fun and not that bad.

Darth Jello
I think the whole concept is too campy to make a good movie unless they radically retooled the entire concept. Maybe if it was made in a sci-fi mold with the skrulls being the villains and holding off on Doom till later? What if Nicolas Meyer directed?

BruceSkywalker
Originally posted by Darth Jello
I think the whole concept is too campy to make a good movie unless they radically retooled the entire concept. Maybe if it was made in a sci-fi mold with the skrulls being the villains and holding off on Doom till later? What if Nicolas Meyer directed?


interesting idea

jinXed by JaNx
I thought the first movie came very close to delivering a great Fantastic Four movie. I'm glad to hear the news of a reboot but i'm kind of saddened because i thought they had the perfect cast for the F4 team. Those actors had great chemistry.

Darth Jello
Well when you've got premises that's difficult to translate to the screen, you really need a good cast and not having that along with horrible direction, writing and set design and cinematography killed the last two movies.

Keep Michael Chiklis but replace everyone else with good actors. I don't like sitting in the theater wanting to shoot the human torch every time he opens his mouth. Cut the special effects budget and use it to hire F. Murray Abraham to play Doom and other good actors. Oh, and definitely don't make the predominant color in the movies blue. I felt like both the movies had this kind of radiating blue glow because of the cinematography and design which when combined with everything else that was bad about made an experience akin to being punched between the eyes in slow motion over the course of an hour and a half.

jinXed by JaNx
Originally posted by Darth Jello
Well when you've got premises that's difficult to translate to the screen, you really need a good cast and not having that along with horrible direction, writing and set design and cinematography killed the last two movies.

Keep Michael Chiklis but replace everyone else with good actors. I don't like sitting in the theater wanting to shoot the human torch every time he opens his mouth. Cut the special effects budget and use it to hire F. Murray Abraham to play Doom and other good actors. Oh, and definitely don't make the predominant color in the movies blue. I felt like both the movies had this kind of radiating blue glow because of the cinematography and design which when combined with everything else that was bad about made an experience akin to being punched between the eyes in slow motion over the course of an hour and a half.


lmao you do realize that we're talking about a Marvel comic book, right? Marvel isn't exactly known for mature content. considering the actual origins and comic book history. The original Fantastic Four movie did an INCREDIBLE job. You people just expect to much. I mean really. Yeah, i go to see a fantastic four movie for the story..., laughing laughing out loud laughing If you say that you disliked fantastic four becuase the writing was sub-par you must be a cynic.

Mr. Rhythmic
Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
lmao you do realize that we're talking about a Marvel comic book, right? Marvel isn't exactly known for mature content. considering the actual origins and comic book history. The original Fantastic Four movie did an INCREDIBLE job. You people just expect to much. I mean really. Yeah, i go to see a fantastic four movie for the story..., laughing laughing out loud laughing If you say that you disliked fantastic four becuase the writing was sub-par you must be a cynic.

I didn't like the first FF movie because it sucked. Period. Horrible cast, horrible changes from the comic, horrible dialogue, horrible everything.

He didn't even talk about the tone, either. He was referring to the color.

H. S. 6
Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
lmao you do realize that we're talking about a Marvel comic book, right? Marvel isn't exactly known for mature content. considering the actual origins and comic book history. The original Fantastic Four movie did an INCREDIBLE job. You people just expect to much. I mean really. Yeah, i go to see a fantastic four movie for the story..., laughing laughing out loud laughing If you say that you disliked fantastic four becuase the writing was sub-par you must be a cynic.

I don't mean to sound rude, but that entire statement is bullshit. Saying that fans "expect too much" is simply allowing these companies to produce bad movies. Fans shouldn't have to bow and accept the garbage that comes out because the source material is supposedly inherently campy or immature.

After the critical slamming Batman & Robin got, Schumacher said something along the lines of "It's Batman; people can't expect a mature movie" in an interview. Guess he must be damned embarrassed now that Dark Knight came out and blew people away.

Given the right writer, a mature, well-made Fantastic Four movie--with, ya' know, a good story--can be made, and fans won't have to submit to substandard trash and the attitude that a truly good movie can't be made because of some inherent restrictions of the source material.

Mr. Rhythmic
The Fantastic Four is a series that is insane right off the bat. With Spider-Man, even in the world he lived in in the comics, they still had to slowly evolve the fiction around him. A few cameos were ok, a few misleading stories here and there(Spider-Man fighting the Terrible Tinkerer), but the elements didn't get nuts until at least the 70s, so slowly making the villains more unbelievable in the movies was a good idea.

The Fantastic Four, though, is a completely different story. We're talking about a comic that thrived on being nutty. The first film made them too much of superheroes and not enough like explorers or adventurers. This time around you start off with either the Moleman, Terminus, the Skrulls, or Dragon Man.

Then as you set up a mythos, introduce Dr. Doom, the Skrulls, the Inhumans(using the Dragon Man/Maximus story arc), Galactus, Darkoth, Blastaar, and Annihilus.

The Nuul
Originally posted by H. S. 6
I don't mean to sound rude, but that entire statement is bullshit. Saying that fans "expect too much" is simply allowing these companies to produce bad movies. Fans shouldn't have to bow and accept the garbage that comes out because the source material is supposedly inherently campy or immature.

After the critical slamming Batman & Robin got, Schumacher said something along the lines of "It's Batman; people can't expect a mature movie" in an interview. Guess he must be damned embarrassed now that Dark Knight came out and blew people away.

Given the right writer, a mature, well-made Fantastic Four movie--with, ya' know, a good story--can be made, and fans won't have to submit to substandard trash and the attitude that a truly good movie can't be made because of some inherent restrictions of the source material.

But Batman is a serious story and Schumacher made it goofy thats the major reason why it flopped. FF is a light hearted story and not serious. So the tone of the film is perfect.

Kazenji
It needs to be almost like The Incredibles plenty of Fun and good action and a decent story.

Knowsbleed33
Can't say this surprises me. The first 2 were absolutely terrible. Jessica Alba can't act for shit, Thing as a character annoyed the shit out of me. The only one that played his character well was the guy who played the Human Torch.

It makes more sense to reboot these than it did to reboot Hulk IMO. Let's hope the trend continues and they reboot that shit heap called Ghost Rider.

Darth Jello
Is it too much to ask to make a Fantastic Four movie where you don't want every character on the screen to die horribly in the course of it?

Mindship
I thought the two FF movies weren't bad, especially the character chemistry (and also, by the second movie, I got used to Alba).

Reboot Doom (someone with a comically less prominant forehead). Reboot the Surfer (he should be bulkier, more like Kirby's Surfer, and definitely not bowl-legged).

Galactus...? No full shots yet. And yeah, I'd love to see Dragon Man.

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