Chris Evans Talks 'Fantastic Four' Character

[Monday, August 30th, 2004]
Chris EvansChris Evans says that he modeled his Fantastic Four character, Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch, on Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun'. "I went to Top Gun," Evans told Sci-Fi Wire. "A lot of these guys are pretty cocky hotshots when they're in the cockpit doing their business, but outside of the cockpit these guys have fun, and they're crude, and they have an arrogance about them. That, I think, every single pilot in Top Gun embodies."

"I think that inspires some arrogance in these guys, but a lot of these pilots who do pilot, whether it's fighter pilots or space, are doing high-risk jobs that a very small percentage of people in this world can do, and they know it," Evans said. "Johnny Storm is a kind of a hotshot, a little arrogant, likes to have fun, but he's intelligent."

Evans says that his character will be transformed through computer graphics. "I don’t think they’re going to actually set me on fire," he said. "I think it's going to be mostly CGI. I don't think we're ever going to use any real fire; it will all be green screen, stuff that I don't know anything about."

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