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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Petty writer squabbles just tend to make me laugh
Anyway, Reed has been a better husband and father in the Slott run of all things
I mean it’s a low bar and the run makes people angry for other reasons but it’s done a little good by Reed
When told by some alien nonsense that he and Sue are soulmates he gets excited
Forever liveblogging the Avengers“It’s okay I read Foundation”
“Ayn Rand strikes again! Dammit, it was hard enough to deprogram Sp-.”
“No, you’re thinking of the Fountainhead. I’m talking Asimov”
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's a slow weekend, and that means MCU casting rumors.
The lastest one, via the Daily Mail, is that Jennifer Lawrence is being floated to play Susan Storm
in the Fantastic Four movie.
Edited by Beatman1 on Feb 20th 2021 at 3:16:13 PM
It's the Daily Mail. Reading tea leaves are a better source of info than the Daily Mail.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Jennifer Lawrence is in a similar position to Emma Stone, after winning some awards they have no reason to take on any movie where they are not the main character, and after some bad experiences with comic book franchise movies are even less likely to take on one of those again.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.Second reaction: Based on her historical screen partners, we can expect Reed to be 50 years old.
Well, that would give him a good reason for him to have greying sideburns. One of the big problems with adapting F4 is that Reed's greying sideburns are one of his most iconic features, and Johnny being a young hothead is the most iconic part of his personality. Reed has to be older, and Johnny has to be younger, and that puts Sue in a weird position. Some adaptations have skirted around this by making Reed's sideburns be an unnatural mutation, but that's the coward's way out. Personally, I think they should make Sue significantly older than her little brother, and make Reed significantly older than her, something like this:
- Reed: ~45
- Sue: ~35
- Johnny: ~25
- Ben: ~40
I could see them pulling a Spider-Man and skip the twice-brought-to-the-big-screen origin story entirely; having kids would also differentiate this rendition.
Depending on their age, one of the suggestions I've seen was doing an old-timey film reel in the first few minutes to get the origin out of the way, and then catch up with them after said origin. Similar to how the LA Spider-Man movies implied the previously seen origin before rolling with the proper story.
That's an unnecessarily complicated method of justifying it. Just say that he's prematurely graying and have that be the end of it.
In regards to how they should introduce the FF, maybe they should introduce them as the supporting cast of, say, the upcoming Captain Marvel movie, and make the whole rocket-ship-space-radiation origin a part of the climax. For example, say the villain has a big ol' space laser in Earth's orbit, ready to blow up the planet, and Reed and co. accompany Captain Marvel to take it down. The four astronauts make a Heroic Sacrifice to defuse the space laser's radioactive core, and end up irradiated by cosmic rays that give them their superpowers.
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Sometimes it needs to happen like Sins Past and One More Day but what do I know.
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