Fantastic Four Reboot

If it underperforms they'll probably try to copy Sony's deal.

I doubt it. The Marvel/Sony deal worked because Marvel is keen on getting their most important character back now, plus, Disney and Sony have a long-lasting business relationship. Between Fox and Marvel the mood is way more icy and Marvel is in no hurry at all to use the Fantastic Four. If the next movie fails, they might do a bid to get the rights back once and for all, or they might sit this one out in the hope that Fox will decide against pumping money in another movie just to keep the rights in a few years. But they certainly won't help Fox to keep the rights.

Given that Fox also has the X-Men, which they've been a lot more successful with, given people a reason to trust them on, and arguably works best as part of its own cinematic universe, it may just be best if - should F4 fail like everyone is all but expecting at this point - they just focus on the X-Men. Way things are going, about the only thing the F4 will be good for for Fox will be trying to use their supplemental characters to help build up the X-Men universe.

Change is coming.◊

(Still betting on Annihilus showing up)

I bet its Chester A Bum

That's a huge Thing.

Nah. Marvel owns Giant Size Man-Thing.

edited 24th Mar '15 4:51:51 PM by Hodor2

Okay fellows I don't want to be negative but...it's literally the same fucking trailer as Interestellar. I'm not kidding its the same goddamn trailer

Carbon. Copy

edited 3rd Apr '15 8:54:59 PM by Gaon

Is that the same plane from The Dark Knight Rises?

This thing barely even resembles the Fantastic Four. It's like they're ashamed to acknowledge that this is a trailer for a superhero movie, so they just reluctantly include a couple split-second clips of the heroes using their powers so it's not too misleading.

I still think that I wouldn't even recognize this is a Fantastic 4 trailer if I didn't knew it already. It looks like it was made for a movie called "Fantastic".

On making a deal with marvel: It's unlikely for previously stated reasons, but I think Marvel MIGHT actually be keen on getting FF rights. Not for the actual Fantastic Four, but for the villains. Galactus. Skrulls. DOCTOR DOOM. All of them are tied up in the FF license. And despite getting screwed in the last movie and apparently getting screwed here, Doctor Doom definitely needs a proper cinematic entrance.

On the trailer: Yup. Very interstellar-y. Ah well. Making FF grimey and gritty is almost a hilarious prospect in and of itself. Hopefully it's a bit of a blind. But "High Science" IS the proper theming for the FF, even if this seems the wrong tone.

On casting: I feel three of the four look too young to be portraying their characters. Benjy Grimm's the fun uncle, Reed Richards is the absent-minded father and Susan Storm is the motherly badass. Ah well. Surprise me.

I agree on every point. I guess a lot hinges on how well the upcoming movie does. If it doesn't catch on, I think Fox might consider selling the rights back to reasonable price instead of being forced to put money into another dud in a couple of years.

I keep hoping I'll see something that changes my mind about this movie but so far nothing has.

You'd think that people would want folks to know they're making a superhero movie, given that those are all the rage these days.

But then I remember this is Hollywood where everything has roughly a 50/50 shot at best of actually making sense.

Thye are banking on the Ultimate Fantastic Four with the young casting there. I'd say it's better than way for FOX: As far as FOX is concerned, the characters won't need to be recast in a decade from now if they are successful.

Still heavily underwhelmed by everything I hear about this movie.

Watching the trailers, my main issue so far is not the fact that it's trying to be darker and/or more realistic, but that the movie seems ashamed of being a superhero movie. I mean, even the Nolan Batman trilogy still let Batman run around in a batsuit.

Auteur License. Fire the director. That Chronicle guy. Fire him. Out of a cannon. In the general direction of the sun.

He's a critical darling, it would signal suicide for this movie and the creative direction they are taking.

First look at the Thing.

Perhaps it's just me, but Ben Grimm looks derpy as fuck in that picture.

edited 9th Apr '15 9:46:48 AM by Nightwire

It's just you.

It looks decent. At least the FX have money behind them.

Agreed about the effect being decent. Just something about this one's particular expression that looks really derpy

Gonna have to request an explanation. When I hear "derpy", I think MLP and Trubbish. Neither of which are the face that Ben has in that picture.