Fantastic Four Reboot

Some new stills.

I couldn't resist.

Dat acting. (Miles Teller is far from a bad actor, but still he says it so solemn and quite for some reason. XD)

edited 22nd Apr '15 7:23:11 PM by TheLemsterPju

So, how closely will the movie follow the Ultimate Universe do you think?

Website updated with info on each character(they are really pulling on Ultimate). There's a voiceover by Sue and Johnny's dad.

Reed:

Sue:

Johnny:

Ben:

...Begyourpardon?

"A rare breed of brawn and heart"?

Check the Cell section for him on the website. His cells contain miniature black holes after the experiment.

Well then, looks like Reed's power are going to receive some upgrades. He can control and warp space around him? That's some serious potential right there.

edited 26th Apr '15 10:52:53 AM by zsax

OK, I think I can live with Reed's powers being explained as him bending the space where he is (Ultimate already had him being some sort of living polymer). But I will really begin to cringe if they start giving him other powers because of that, especially if they come off like an Ass Pull.

Damn you Fox. The new info is not available in the latinamerican portion of the site. And it keeps bouncing me off to that one no matter what I do.

So...they changed Reed from being stretchy as a symbol for him trying to do everything at once to him "stretching for the stars", Sue being painfully shy to "hard to reach" and Human Torch being a hothead to "lighting the place up" and Ben being set in his way to him being "rock solid"....meaning they turned the concept of their "negative" character traits becoming a strength to them being an amplification of their positive traits.

Not sure how I feel about that....

So Philip Glass is apparently doing the music. That has me mildly interested. Sadly the trailer didn't do anything for me.

For those that don't listen to the voice over:

Sue and Johnny's dad says this about Ben which leads me to believe that atleast his bio is from how he is in the second or third act of the movie: "uncooperative, disinterested, and far from a team player"

Some clarification on Reed's power.

tl;dr: "Warps space around him" is just the technobabble for "he's stretchy."

Pretty lousy technobabble.

If you're going to create a justification for how the powers work, that's fine. But "warping space"? Is it so hard to just say his body's transformed into some sort of extra-malleable material?

Warping space... that makes it sound like he should have access to some pretty high level extra powers. And if not? Then way to pick the dumbest possible explanation for how he works, Trank.

It sounds creative to me, at least.

It explains how his organs work for one thing. In the comics they had to explain it by turning all of him into a single multi unction organ sponge to explain it. I much prefer this; as it allows the distance within his circulatory system to bend with him.

Personally him having miniature black holes in his cells that bend space just raises more questions than it anwsers.

It would explan how Reed's control is precise enough to affect individual parts of himself while leaving the rest of him normal (To do stuff like shave without incident).

edited 29th Apr '15 12:45:31 AM by nervmeister

He's gone for decades without needing some kind of mumbo-jumbo explanation for that before, I don't see why he needed one now.

Oh it's creative, I'll give it that.

Actually I think the old movies said he was stretchy due to some gland.

Really, I prefer the cosmic rays to allow just strait up alchemy.

Like, encountering the rays meant somewhere on a cosmic databank, flesh got scratched out under Reed Richards, and rubber got written in instead. So Reed Richards is simultaneously a working human and working rubber.

Likewize you have a men made of fire, rock, radiation, metal, and women made of gas and invisibility.

(I've completely forgotten what the fourth U-Foe's power was)