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Fantastic Four Reboot Will Aim For Tone of Sam Raimis Spider-Man
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CharminUltra
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More like SM2 and less like SM3 plz
soundahfekz
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sooo fucking sick of reboots
Fox don't like Disney much these days, could try to hold onto the rights out of spite if this tanks.
Scientist Supreme!
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This makes no sense. Making the FF grounded is completely the opposite idea of the FF. The FF is high adventure through time and space not batman. Just give us this:
sans spiderman
sans spiderman
This makes no sense. Making the FF grounded is completely the opposite idea of the FF. The FF is high adventure through time and space not batman. Just give us this:
sans spiderman
Uncle Johnny's dead!!!! Yaya lets have fun!!!
Sho_Nuff82
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The Thor franchise has
- Asgard with Rainbow Bridge and Force Fields and Laser Beams
- Yggdrasil
- The Odinsleep
- Loki using Kyōka Suigetsu
- Frost Giants
- Giant rock men
- Giant space ships with predator cloaks
- "Cosmic cube"/tesseract and other broken reality artifacts
- Dark Elves
- The Destroyer
- Idris Elba with the ability to see all of space
- unliftable Mjolnir and its magical inscription
Franchise is over $1 billion at the box office. The idea that audiences won't accept high fantasy in their superhero films is nonsense. Even Man of Steel embraced the crazier sci fi Kryptonian elements and over the top DBZ fights, and it did just as well as Thor 2.
Fast and the Furious series does a better job going balls out crazy with cars. And does it better.
Guillermo Del Toro would definitely do it if WB let him do Justice League Dark.
Yeah but those movies suck. And a large portion of Thor 1 was set in Bumfuck Town, USA.
Yeah but those movies suck.
...nah FF5 is good. Speed Racer is way nuttier than any of them though.
You're good at missing the point.
Paper Sparrow
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Going to have to disagree. Nothing in Speed Racer compares to the physics defying safe dragging scene.
And while I'm not really harsh on SR in general, it sucks compared to F&F. Pretty colors though.
PhoncipleBone
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If it were going for the fun and whimsical tone (with the seriousness when needed) of Raimi's Spider-Man 1 or 2, I would be excited. But grounded? Wtf?
At least we will always have The Incredibles for showing what a Fantastic Four movie should be like.
At least we will always have The Incredibles for showing what a Fantastic Four movie should be like.
Mercury Fred
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Fuck this movie and everything about it.
Well there's this...
It was Namor this whole time...
I want a fantastic four movie where Sue has hair like that. Maybe not quite so hydrocephalic but definitely the hair.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Fox IS scared of the source material for whatever comic movie they make, that's a known fact by now
PhoncipleBone
Banned
As ridiculous as Fast Five was, it is not as ridiculous (or as ridiculously awesome) as the jumping car punch of doom.
Like I said. Pretty colors.
Well there's this...
It was Namor this whole time...
Love namor assholishness
And it had a better Iceman than any of the X movies. TI was so great.
RobotNinjaHornets
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...what does this even mean?!
Y'know, I must be the only one who actually liked the cast of the Tim Story movies -- Jessica Alba's Sue Storm aside. Chris Evans was the perfect Johnny Storm, Michael Chiklis was a great Ben Grimm and I actually liked Ioan Gruffudd as Reed. Hell, Julian McMahon could have done a good job as Dr. Doom. The problem is they had such god awful fucking scripts. There was no way any of them could do anything with what they were given.
We're a week from filming and we still don't have a final script yet. So let's just bullshit some press soundbytes to sound like we're on the right track.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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That they have no idea what the fuck they are doing
Sho_Nuff82
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Are we talking about Coolio or Macy Gray here?
Just_myles
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Yeah FF should definitely ride on the fantastic and cosmic.
triplestation
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it would be better in the style of the last guardian
BlueDogAnchorite
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I'm curious about this. Why doesn't Fox like Disney? What's the story behind this?
tokyostomp
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Full title of the movie should be:
The CW Presents The Fantastic Four
The CW Presents The Fantastic Four
Jorok Goldblade
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This makes no sense. Making the FF grounded is completely the opposite idea of the FF. The FF is high adventure through time and space not batman. Just give us this:
sans spiderman
Fantastic Four should basically be Doctor Who + family stuff in tone
BinaryPork2737
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Jorok Goldblade
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I've heard that Marvel offered to extend the Daredevil licence for Fox is they allowed co-use of some of the cosmic characters tied up in the Fantastic Four franchise, and then Fox countered by asking Marvel to fully finance the Daredevil movie, so Marvel took the offer off the table.
DonasaurusRex
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so they wont be wearing costumes, and will be about 4 idiots who are dying from cosmic radiation after an accident in space?
Half to 3/4 the marvel U came from this book and they want to ground it in .... virtual "reality" ??? ugh
Half to 3/4 the marvel U came from this book and they want to ground it in .... virtual "reality" ??? ugh
I think they're saying they want the science to feel "plausible" (at least, before they go batshit in the sequels), but with the sort of adventurous tone of Raimi's Spider-Man.
Really, though, I don't know what to glean from these comments.
……forgetit
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I thought we all agreed that grounding comic book movies was a bad idea? Only 1 series has done that successfully.
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