'Chronicle' director Josh Trank frontrunner for Fantastic Four reboot.

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s the superhero franchise boom shows no signs of slowing down, 20th Century Fox is looking to get moving on their Fantastic Four reboot. We knew the reboot was coming, as Fox is in danger of losing the property if they don’t produce a Fantastic Four film every few years. Now the studio has apparently honed in on their choice for the film’s director: Josh Trank. The director is set to make his feature debut with the found footage superhero movie Chronicle, which has been generating a good deal of buzz ever since the first trailer debuted online. The studio won’t make a final decision on Trank until after seeing how Chronicle fares once it hits theaters, but Variety says insiders at Fox are very keen on the young director. Hit the jump for more.
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They're waiting to see how Chronicle does before they pull the trigger, but after having seen 25 minutes of the film, I'm telling you now Chronicle will do well.
 
We're falling off the cliff. There's no fucking stopping this industry now from making us watch the same shit again and again. And we're still paying for it.
 
Fantastic Four needs to be done documentary/reality TV style. They need to start trying new shit with some of the 2nd tier super hero franchises instead of the shitty paint by numbers stuff we get.
 
I don't think the Fantastic 4 works with younger actresses. I could see George Clooney and Naomi Watts working well in this film. It will never happen, however.
 
For those saying this is the end of Hollywood or some crazy shit, it might do you well to notice that the first two Fantastic Four movies still exist and we are all worse off for it.
 
disappeared said:
We're falling off the cliff. There's no fucking stopping this industry now from making us watch the same shit again and again. And we're still paying for it.
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how many productions of don giovanni, romeo and juliet etc has there been?

as long as its good ...go for it.
 
ThisWreckage said:
I don't think the Fantastic 4 works with younger actresses. I could see George Clooney and Naomi Watts working well in this film. It will never happen, however.
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Yeah I could always picture George Clooney as Reid Richards and a strong late 30s female actress as the invisible woman, not sure about Naomi Watts though, she's a great actress but I'm not sure she fits.
 
wetwired said:
Yeah I could always picture George Clooney as Reid Richards and a strong late 30s female actress as the invisible woman, not sure about Naomi Watts though, she's a great actress but I'm not sure she fits.
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Just cast Vera Faminga as Sue and we can have Clooney finally get flexible with her again on the towel rack.
 
wetwired said:
Yeah I could always picture George Clooney as Reid Richards and a strong late 30s female actress as the invisible woman, not sure about Naomi Watts though, she's a great actress but I'm not sure she fits.
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If they're going to go younger than Watts, my next choice would be Rachel McAdams.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
I can't take credit for it, I heard it mentioned a few times over the years as an idea. I always picture something like a more action oriented/less comedic version of Galaxy Quest. Very self-aware.
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It fits the characters perfectly. They're Marvel's superheroes that everybody loves. It would be a perfect framing device to have them being followed around by a camera crew shooting a documentary or news feature.

Your idea or not, it's a great one.
 
apana said:
It needs to be gritty and more realistic.
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Teh Hamburglar said:
Shawn Levy is supposedly directing a new (remake) version of Fantastic Voyage. Thats straight up Fantastic Four stuff if there ever was.
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I was all like "WTF is Fantastic Voyage." IMDB shows me it's that movie I watched as a kid where they shrunk down in a space ship to travel through some dude's bloodstream. And some guy got shot through a balloon, which blew my mind, because GI Joe had taught me that gunfire stops the second it hits anything.

...but the point is that's terrible. lol.
 
WanderingWind said:
I was all like "WTF is Fantastic Voyage." IMDB shows me it's that movie I watched as a kid where they shrunk down in a space ship to travel through some dude's bloodstream. And some guy got shot through a balloon, which blew my mind, because GI Joe had taught me that gunfire stops the second it hits anything.

...but the point is that's terrible. lol.
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but thats what the Fantastic Four do...they're not super heroes. They're explorers.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
but thats what the Fantastic Four do...they're not super heroes. They're explorers.
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Only in their origin! They're better classified as a scientist, a mother, a fighter and a frat boy with powers. But they totally do all the superhero crap like saving the world constantly and fighting supervillans with silly costumes and names.

Their new direction is pretty interesting...though it being Marvel, not likely to last.
 
Reed Richards is the hero we barely deserve. He's not about the glory or the flashiness. He's also smarter than everyone and doesn't spoil his kids.

Suck it, Namor.
 
apana said:
It needs to be gritty and more realistic.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not. Awful buzzwords which have been popping up so damn often since the Nolan Batman films.

You want a movie with a stretch dude and a rock man to be....gritty and realistic?

okay
 
Discotheque said:
I can't tell if you're joking or not. Awful buzzwords which have been popping up so damn often since the Nolan Batman films.

You want a movie with a stretch dude and a rock man to be....gritty and realistic?

okay
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I want it to be darker then the other movies were. I understand believable is out, due to the powers of the main characters, but they could set things up so that there is a real weight behind the characters. It doesnt have to be silly and goofy.
 
Eh, the original movies are utter shit, so this is one of those occasions were a reboot actually makes total sense.
 
disappeared said:
We're falling off the cliff. There's no fucking stopping this industry now from making us watch the same shit again and again. And we're still paying for it.
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Then stop paying for it. There are plenty of good indie and foreign films to invest your time and money into.

Hollywood feeds of the feedback loop that you have to watch this shit in order to talk about it to other people that also saw it, rather than seeing a good film and telling others to go see that film.

This was a fine year for North American cinema with Dangerous Method, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Meek's Cutoff, Another Earth, and others. Then there's foreign stuff all the time if you look for it. Not to mention great stuff comes out on DVD all the time.

Nobody is forced to feed the system.
 
Super Hero movies should basicly just basicly be one offs. Adapt a story and call it a day. Dont worry about having these long drawn out plots that are primed for three movies or making sure you have the same actors and creative teams. I don't see why this couldn't work for a lot of Super Hero movies. It works for your James Bonds and Missions Impossibles. Each is basicly self contained and can have diffrent casts. People are already firmiliar with most of the popular ones anyway, so no need to even bother with origin stories.
 
MidnightScott said:
Why the fuck do we need constant reboots? :/
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Movie studios have to make a sequel every few years or they lose the rights, so they can't just camp on the rights for decades without spending any money. But if after a movie or two they think their current execution of director/actors has poisoned the well with a wide audience (like spiderman 3), the choice they have left is to start over from scratch. It's still unfortunate.
 
I'm glad a FF reboot is still in the works and they're scouting for an appropriate director. Looks like Fox has learned from First Class in how to make a good superhero movie. I want to see a good FF movie before I get old. I'm also happy Marvel doesn't have the rights to the FF movie, I don't want SHIELD and Avengers crossovers being shoehorned in there.
 
The only fantastic four type movie I want to see right now is The Incredibles 2. They need to get on that and stop the madness with the straight-to-DVD-worthy sequels like Cars2
 
A correctly done FF movie would be like 180 million at least. FF is all about the super science and seeing alien shit.
 
Hollywood itself needs to be rebooted, so it can remember that Indiana Jones and Star Wars and Jaws and Alien etc.. etc. were all original fucking ideas.

I didn't watch a single comic book based movie last year. I'm tired of derivative movies, and the "way-too-soon reboot" phenomenon will just mean I will be tired of derivative, regurgitated movies.

Freezie KO said:
Then stop paying for it. There are plenty of good indie and foreign films to invest your time and money into.

...Nobody is forced to feed the system.
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True, but my favorite types of movie is big budget, effects-laden spectacle movies. I just want to them to be original.
 
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