Fantastic Four

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Watch: Stan Lee Responds To Fantastic Four Flop

Fantastic Four currently sits at $155 million worldwide at the box office with a 9% positive (or 91% negative, depending on how you want to look at it) Rotten Tomatoes score.

Now the co-creator of the Fantastic Four, Stan Lee, weighs in on the movie’s flop while speaking with Larry King.

“It was probably because I didn’t have a cameo in it,” Lee offered. “They didn’t discuss the story with me. I haven’t seen it yet. I really can’t comment about it.”

King, surprised that Stan Lee hasn’t seen Fantastic Four, questioned why he wouldn’t run to see it.

“I don’t run to see anything,” Lee responded. “I walk jaunty-jolly, as Mel Brooks would say, and I just get there eventually.”

Stan Lee also offers it “may be true” that movie studios reboot things too quickly.

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Fantastic Four HERBIE & Fantasticar Concept Art Revealed

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More concept art has been revealed for Fantastic Four, this time featuring HERBIE and the Fantasticar.

You can also check out the Doom Planet Zero concept art.

Concept artist Fausto De Martini shared the following art on Facebook:

Just sharing some early development work I did on Fantastic Four. It was very early stuff but it was tons of fun to work on. I don’t think any of it made in the final cut [smiles]

The Fantasticar actually almost made it into the movie as cut B-Roll footage revealed the vehicle.

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Margot Robbie Talks Fantastic Four & Jared Leto’s Joker

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Margot Robbie lets it be known she has dodged the proverbial bullet as prior to Suicide Squad, she was up for the role of Invisible Woman Sue Storm in the Josh Trank Fantastic Four movie which went to Kate Mara.

Prior to Suicide Squad wrapping, Robbie spoke with the NY Daily News about FF.

“I didn’t really resonate with the script, and I haven’t seen the movie, so I don’t really know how it turned out different from the page,” Robbie said of Fantastic Four. “But I had a great meeting with the director [Josh Trank] and I really enjoyed that. I guess it’s part of the game: sometime you win some, sometimes you lose some.”

It ended up working out that David Ayer would cast Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, the side kick to Jared Leto’s Joker, a role, which by all accounts, looks to be a blockbuster for Robbie. 

“What he’s doing with the character is so cool,” she said of Leto as the Joker. “At first it was kind of confronting (to be up close) but now I’m so used to it, I think if I ever saw him out of makeup now I would be really confused.”

Margot Robbie also offered her character is just as crazy as the Joker.

“I guess the one common denominator is we’re all bad guys, it just makes everything more fun that way,” Robbie offered. “The scenes are more interesting I feel, when you just don’t know how the characters are going to react, especially with Harley, who’s absolutely nuts… she’s either going to kill you or laugh and give you a hug.”  

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

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Fantastic Four Concept Art Reveals Doom’s Planet Zero Castle

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It seems the more that has come out that has been cut from Fantastic Four, the better the movie actually sounds.

Surprised?

The latest reveal is of concept art featuring Doom’s Planet Zero Castle that never made its way into the movie.

Artist Steve Jung posted the following Fantastic Four concept art images on Facebook adding: 

Might as well show some work from this movie called Fantastic Four lol. I was on this one early on before all the drama happened… none of my work made it to the movie (kinda glad) since it got changed many times after I left the project. Exploration of the Planet Zero and Victor’s castle ideations. Btw the texture of the terrain is cigarette buds from a picture of the director’s ashtray.

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Might as well show some work from this movie called Fantastic Four lol. I was on this one early on before all the drama…

Posted by Steve Jung on Friday, August 21, 2015

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Watch: Roger Corman’s 1994 Fantastic Four Movie

With the new Fantastic Four tanking big-time, how about checking out the unreleased Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie from back in 1994.

The movie has been uploaded to the Daily Motion (above) or can even be watched on YouTube.

A documentary on Roger Corman’s FF movie was also released with DOOMED! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four.

In 1994, Roger Corman was tapped to produce this Marvel superhero story on a very small film budget. The film was ultimately shelved prior to distribution, but a VHS copy was mysteriously leaked and the movie became a darling of film bootleggers and, more recently, web pirates.  Rumors and speculation surrounding the production have become as much a part of the lore as the film itself.

Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four starred Alex Hyde-White as Dr. Reed Richards, Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm, Rebecca Staab as Susan Storm, Michael Bailey Smith as Ben Grimm, Kat Green as Alicia Masters, with Joseph Culp as Dr. Doom / Victor Von Doom and Carl Ciarfalio as The Thing.

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Read Four Pages From Max Landis’ Fantastic Four

 

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With Fantastic Four bombing, check out four pages from a Max Landis FF script.

Because, hey, why not?

Landis and Trank paired for Chronicle back in 2012.

Landis also wrote the new Victor Frankenstein film and American Ultra.

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Fox Asking Fans What They Should Do With Fantastic Four?

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Fantastic Four performed this weekend way below expecations and even under second guess estimates.

The movie only brought in a paltry $26.2 million, which was a lot under the initial $40-50 million hoped for by Fox, and even under the $28-29 million industry insiders were estimating.

As I previously stated, how could anyone working on the movie not know how bad it was going to turn out, whether it was from a pantless Thing to a poorly rendered Doom. 

Now it turns out Fox is going to the fans for help. 

It’s not unheard of for movie goers to attend screenings where studios pass out surveys in hopes of getting some quality feedback. Marvel has done it when they were looking for fans’ response to what upcoming movie they were most looking forward to (Iron Man 4 was an option), but at least Marvel wasn’t asking about the movie the fans were watching.

Now reports from Twitter surface stating Fox handed out a survey in various theaters across the country; however, no pics have surfaced as of yet.

Regarding what Fox should do, it’s obvious the answer would be to get Marvel’s help, similar to what Sony is doing with Spider-Man. There’s no question Kevin Feige is the man when it comes to comic book movies. 

(tweets spotted by CBM)

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Fantastic Four Doing Worse Than Expected

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Due to a combination of factors – with director Josh Trank’s tweet certainly not helping things – it’s looking likely that Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot will perform worse than expected at the box office.

Estimates are now stating that Fantastic Four will only do around $27-28 million this weekend, which is a lot less than the $40-50 million expected.

Fantastic Four only brought in around $11.3 million for Thursday and Friday screenings as well.

It’s also looking possible that Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation may actually top FF and retain the #1 movie of the weekend for the second week in a row.

For a comparison to the Fantastic Four reboot numbers, the previous film, Rise of the Silver Surfer, opened around $72 million when inflation is factored in.

Regarding the factors responsible for why Fantastic Four is doing so poorly, word of mouth is crushing the film as FF currently has a 9% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It probably didn’t help that the special effects for Doom and The Thing were about as good as Apocalypse, and that the script for the film is absolutely terrible. It actually makes you wonder who is working on these movies at Fox as how could they not know it’s so bad.

Any future for this version of Fantastic Four looks to be presently in the hands of international audiences as the movie is tanking big time in the U.S. The movie has a budget of around $120 million, which it could easily make up with foreign audiences. It’s probably safe to say if there is a sequel to this Fantastic Four, Josh Trank won’t be back to direct.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Simon Pegg Jokes About Fantastic Four; Go See Mission Impossible

Fantastic Four opened this weekend and has been getting extremely poor reviews as well as not meeting up to industry box office expectations.

While the movie may or may not be any good, at least Simon Pegg recommends going to see the Fantastic Four.

That is the “Fantastic Four” of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Pegg tweeted out the following image of himself with Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames.

Both films are currently in theaters.

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Josh Trank Blames Fox For Ruining Fantastic Four

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Director Josh Trank has tweeted and since deleted a post on Twitter that blames Fox for ruining his Fantastic Four movie.

Fantastic Four currently sits at only a 9% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes as reviews have been absolutely crushing the movie. Our own review offered to not even bother spending your money to go see it. Just yesterday also saw Hollywood producer Adi Shankar offer he would like to remake Fantastic Four and explained how Fox missed the boat on a potential shared FF/X-Men universe.

Regarding Trank, he posted: “A year ago I had a fantastic version of this. And it would’ve recieved great reviews. You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though.”

There have been rumors about production woes regarding Trank and Fox for some time, with it also mentioned reshoots were filmed without Tranks input. If Trank’s words are anything to go by, it seems Trank didn’t have much or anything to do with the final cut of the movie.

Here is the tweet:

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“Fantastic Four” is currently in theaters.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Fantastic Four (2015) Review

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Return of the Flop

A Film Review of (Another) Fantastic Four

I can’t say I didn’t warn you back when people were losing their minds over Johnny Storm being played by Michael B. Jordan and I wrote an article that didn’t criticize his casting, but that of his sister being cast as white girl, Kate Mara.  Thus, we have finally come to the opening weekend of this brand new Fantastic Four and what we have received is a decent amount of what I predicted, copious amounts of plot gaps, bland characters in a character-driven flick and one of the worst villains ever conceived for the contemporary comic book adaptation.  Looks like Marvel won’t have to wait much longer to get those film rights back from 20th Century Fox.  My general criticism of this film has less to do with the particulars and character reinventions and more to do with the project’s overall lack of focus, its disjointed nature and complete inability to build drama and suspense to allow the action that unfolds on screen to matter.  There’s some kind of identity crisis going on where you can see the film wants to be about family, or about shady government, or about environmentalism, or even about plain old action.  The problem is, none of these themes are given the proper screen time and production effort to allow them to mold the story in any unique way.  It’s as if director Josh Trank and his studio overseer kept hitting the randomize button on a ton of film clips captured on Final Cut Pro to yield this product.

I don’t care if “the studio” is ultimately to blame for what certainly seems the worst effort put into a potentially serious, money making adaptation because even common civilians know by now that in the comic book film game, you don’t handle Hollywood, Hollywood handles you!  That holds true even when the writer/director is also responsible for having created the source material.  Trank may very well be correct in identifying studio interference as having negative effects to the production, but so what?  Even if you are given a huge budget that gets stripped away from you, even if you cast A-listers that walk out on you or even if the studio exec bursts in and forces a major overhaul mid-production, as the director, there is one thing you can still ensure that has a lasting, positive impact that can save an audience: your cast’s performance.  Sure, the modern day American film director has many responsibilities, but the most important and often overlooked is that of evoking the best out of your cast.  You give them a framework for what you want, you show them how their characters matter and then you give them the freedom to explore those characters inside negotiable parameters.  This cast clearly had their own ideas with little discipline because it shows in the lack of camaraderie, the lack of onscreen chemistry.  When one’s cast is barely interested in the film, how then can an audience be convinced to be interested in watching?

Action Style

One would think that a comic book adaptation would have lots of good nuggets of cool power sequences and other worldly combat, but this film boasts none of that save for the climactic battle which was still more about CG going wild than anything else.  Seriously, most of Ben Grimm’s “clobbering time” is seen through video monitors.

1/6

Action Frame

This too, is a little on the bland side as the FF’s powers are well contained for 80% of the film.  Is it weird that a street race among POS used cars is the most dynamic sequence of movement going on in the whole film?  The camera doesn’t follow Human Torch flight much because he doesn’t fly around very much.

2/5

Lead Performance

Apparently, Reed Richards is only a stereotypical super nerd in the strictest sense because nobody else has been able to perform this character as anything but, including Miles Teller.  His performance evokes no semblance of leadership and no sense of loyalty for his own “friends” and “family.”

1/6

Supporting Performance

You know how you dodge the bullet over explaining the whole African American Storm family adopting Susan?  You ignore it completely, kind of like how Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan barely acknowledge each other as siblings onscreen.  Jaime Bell is hamstringed by his character going full CG.  Toby Kebbell delivers a Doom that is far too emo to be maniacal, too lazy to be a mastermind and too disinterested in being a character let alone a villain.  The one shining light was Reg E. Cathey as Dr. Franklin Storm.  Freddy from House of Cards gives us a character with charisma and cares about being there.  Too bad he didn’t rub off on the rest of the cast

2/5

Music

Music was present, but held neither marquee melody nor lasting impression.

3/6

Sound F/X

Ben Grimm’s rock voice +, teleportation machine sounds +, other dimension sounds +

4/5

“Moving” = 13/33

Digital F/X

Human Torch looked fine, inter-dimensional portal and transportation light shows were bright and Ben Grimm looked great as pants-less Thing.  Too bad his effects ate up 70% of the CG budget leaving the rest of the film with a lot of regular scenery to capture.

4/6

Special F/X

This area takes a hit not just because there isn’t a ton of practical effects going on here, but there is a scene where the glass on a backboard shatters due to a high pitched sound and it’s the ONLY glass in the area that shatters (no one’s glasses or windows are affected).  Sure, this is more of a continuity issue but someone on the explosive team should have at least raised their hands.

2/5

Costumes

Uninspired is the only word that comes to mind here.  Casual wear is fine what with all the scientists, military and business people walking around, but the FF’s clothes are generic spacesuits.  The worst is the entire concept behind Doom: his garb makes no sense; it looks goofy and has nothing to do with any iteration of that character ever conceived for film, TV or comic books.  Just awful.

1/6

Hair & Makeup

Not a bad job being done here.  When people are roughed up, they show wounds and an appropriate amount of rubble.  Still wished the script supervisor got with Josh Trank to point out Sue Storm’s mismatched hair style and coloring at incorrect chronological points.  

4/5

Exteriors

Baxter building outskirts looked great as did the Grimm family junkyard.  The other dimension looked threatening enough from the ground-scape but certainly need more going on in the background.

4/6

Interiors

Another comic book adaptation means more science labs and research facilities.  They were certainly set up and dressed in an acceptable manner, but got a bit bland considering we spend most of the movie in these types of settings.

3/5

“Picture” = 18/33

Hook

Boy genius develops inter-dimensional travel only to grow up to become the stretchy guy on a team of super-powered people.  The only difference this has from any other FF origin story is the extended screen time put into Reed as a child, which isn’t as interesting as Reed as a young adult.

2/4

Conflict

Very weak here.  Is it smart people vs. government?  Is it family vs. each other?  Is it good guys vs. bad guys?  It’s more like all of it jumbled in a washing machine and the focus changes throughout the film.

1/4

Resolution

Thanks to time being elapsed at multiple points in the film, everything is “solved” just as soon as anything becomes a problem.  Of course, there’s a token scene to imply a sequel, but this film doesn’t deserve it.

1/4

Dialogue

There’s more significant talking that occurs between those that are “handling” the FF.  The FF themselves are a bit too nonchalant as they go from perfect strangers to reserved “besties” in no time at all.  

2/6

Exposition

Watch out for all the plot craters strewn about!  A more nimble mind will be able to maneuver these to get a general idea so long as the viewer accepts and forgets to get to the next scene.  Nothing is methodically explored or explained.

2/5

Character Uniqueness

All of the main characters are less amplified versions of the character types they are supposed to represent.  Reed is just one of the squad as opposed to the alpha nerd.  Sue is an emotionless, responsibility first kind of girl.  Ben is the tamest rock warrior you’ve ever seen.  Johnny isn’t an ego-driven hothead; he just has daddy issues. 

2/6

Character Relatability

To achieve relatability, characters need a sympathetic anchor to the audience.  Even if Dr. Franklin’s concern for “his children” is played well enough by the actor, those moments play as empty because the audience doesn’t have enough bonding moments between father and “kids” to matter much.  Also, I have no idea why the hell Reed does what he ultimately does.  I’ve never witnessed a more random display of cowardice onscreen than this.

2/5

“Story” = 12/34

Overall MPS Rating:  43/100

Few Hollywood comic book films make the Fantastic Flops of ’05 and ’07 look like Academy Award winning gems in comparison, but this Fantastic Four movie does just that.  As mind numbing as they were, at least they were fun and at times funny.  This film seems so desperate to take itself seriously, yet has no clear idea as to what it’s being serious about.  I beg you all to put your money to better use: check in with Netflix, go out to dinner, go to a museum, go to a park – just please, do not pay to be “entertained” by this.  Send 20th Century Fox a clear message that pathetic, corporate attempts to squeeze as much profit from impotently developed licenses will not be rewarded by forgetting this movie exists at the box office.

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Fantastic Four & X-Men Exist In Different Universes

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About two weeks ago saw Bryan Singer confirm that talks are underway about a possible Fantastic Four / X-Men crossover movie.

While Singer admitted ideas are in play, now it’s learned the Fantastic Four and X-Men actually exist in two different universes — meaning no mutants in FF, and no FF in X-Men.

Fox producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker sent the NY Daily News the following in an email:

They exist in parallel universes. The Fantastic 4 live in a world without mutants. And the X-Men live in a world without the Fantastic 4.

Whille the Fantastic Four and X-Men do exist in different worlds, the producers still did state they would like to see the characters together on the big screen one day.

Crossing them over would be challenging, but we sure would love to see all those actors together, the way we had them on stage at [San Diego] Comic Con.

Singer previously mentioned if the crossover ever happened “time” would be involved.

Regarding no FF and X-Men shared universe, Hollywood producer Adi Shankar recently brought up a good point, which is that Fox missed the boat on showcasing how differently the public would treat the Fantastic Four (super-powered individuals or heroes) compared to the mutants (i.e. bad) of the X-Men.

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Adi Shankar Wants To Remake Fantastic Four

 

What Movie Would I Remake?

Posted by Adi Shankar on Thursday, August 6, 2015

Adi Shankar, the producer behind the super cool Power Rangers and Punisher fan-films as well as the Dredd and The Grey feature films, now says he would like to remake Fantastic Four.

Fox actually debuts Fantastic Four today with advanced screenings, but the movie has been getting absolutely crushed by the critics.

Fantastic Four presently has an 11% positive rating at WB’s movie aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.

Twitter is also lit up with similar sentiments from fans that have seen the movie.

Check out the video above from Shankar’s Facebook page.

Update: Adi Shankar posted another video about Fantastic Four:

 

Okay … Last Thing About FF4

Posted by Adi Shankar on Thursday, August 6, 2015

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Fantastic Four “Area 57” Viral Video & Bryan Hitch Doom Poster

Check out a new viral video above for Fantastic Four with “Area 47,” and Marvel Comics artist Bryan Hitch created a new comic book-inspired Doom poster.

Fantastic Four opens today with advanced screenings.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Doctor Doom Fantastic Four Clip

The new Doctor(?) Doom is featured front and center in a new clip for Fantastic Four, which can be viewed above.

Fantastic Four opens with advance screenings tomorrow night.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: The Human Torch Drone

With Fantastic Four fast approaching, check out a new promo featuring a Human Torch Drone above.

Viral video agency Thinkmodo created its very own Human Torch to promote the upcoming Fantastic Four film (via adweek), which was released at NYC Nassau County’s Fire Service Academy.  

“It took a lot of testing because we had to find the right material to do it with,” Thinkmodo co-founder Michae Krivicka said. “A special pyro technician had to figure out how to coat the aircraft so it burns in a way that the human shape reads well (instead of it looking like a big flaming ball).”  

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Trailer:

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Watch: Deadpool Teaser #2

Earlier today saw a teaser released for Deadpool (watch below), and now a second teaser has been released (above) which was attached to the Fantastic Four extended trailer.

The full red band Deadpool trailer will be released on Conan O’Brien tomorrow, with the green band trailer attached to Fantastic Four.

“Deadpool” has a February 12, 2016 release directed by Tim Miller starring Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, TJ Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Morena Baccarin as Copycat and Ed Skrein as Ajax.

Synopsis:

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.  

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Watch: Fantastic Four Trailer With Deadpool

Watch a new extended trailer for Fantastic Four above, which also includes an announcement by Deadpool at the end.

Fantastic Four opens this week, and the Deadpool trailer also gets released tomorrow and is attached to FF.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Awkward Interview With Fantastic Four Cast

One thing that has always bugged me about certain interviews, is that the interviewer makes the interview more about themselves than their guests.

I’ve seen and heard it happen dozens of times on various podcasts, radio shows (of course), morning shows (of course), websites and video.

So I’m not really surprised by what happened in the above interview where the cast of the Fantastic Four participated in a really awkward (I can think of a different a-word, though) interview with Atlanta’s Rock 100.5 Morning Show.

The guys asking the questions actually bring up the fact that Michael B. Jordan and Kate Mara are brother and sister in the movie – and get this – and ask, “How does that happen?” They even go so far and point out they are black and white (no, really?) and question, “How does that happen?” Wow. It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it?

Credit goes to the cast for not flying off the handle, as Michael B. Jordan replies “we’re brother and sister” and “we were raised as brother and sister.”

The trainwreck interview continues as Kata Mara is actually questioned why she cut her hair:  “You’re way way hot. Why’d you cut your hair?”

“I’m sorry. I know you don’t like it. I can tell,” Mara responded.

“Your hair was beautiful.”

“This is a great interview,” Mara said. “They asked me to [cut my hair for another movie]. I’m an actress. I have to be a chameleon.”

One of the radio personalities then went on to talk about Mara’s toes (yeah, yikes, lol).

One worthy tidbit that came out of the interview is that the cast of the Fantastic Four hasn’t seen the complete movie, yet, as the interview took place before the movie’s Red Carpet premiere in NYC on August 4th.

The radio station sent Buzz Feed the following when questioned about the interview:

“Absolutely not! That’s not mine or the show’s thing. Look, not a huge fan of these controlled 5-7 minute interview junkets they run in the first place but I was curious about the brother and sister thing. You have a white sister and black brother wouldn’t you want to know how that happened? I did. The other Fantastic Four franchises explain the relationship so I figured with this new hipster version they’d have some different backstory.

My partner’s (Southside Steve) conversation about Kate’s hair is something that came up while Michael B Jordan took a phone call so I think they were kind of just going back forth in a playful way. As for him complimenting her toes and why people are upset about that…sorry…no idea. Steve likes girl’s toes. People should be appreciative when they get complimented. Those that are upset on Twitter I guess don’t get enough of them. Who knows?”

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Fantastic Four has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Fantastic Four Casts Wants Silver Surfer & Namor For Sequel

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Will we ever see the Sentinel of the Spaceways on the big screen again?

I would have to say it’s a good bet, especially if the Fantastic Four reboot is somewhat of a success.

While the 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer movie was less than stellar, which I thought was more due to the writing, I was pretty happy with Doug Jones’ performance as the herald of Galactus. The movie actually wouldn’t have turned out that bad if they hadn’t used the Galactus cloud.

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Last we heard about the Silver Surfer potentially appearing in a movie was the rumor that Marvel Studios wanted to trade the rights to Daredevil for Silver Surfer and Galactus. It’s possible Marvel wanted to use the cosmic duo in their Infinity War movies against Thanos. Obviously that didn’t happen, and Marvel so far has come out on top as the Netflix Daredevil show is considered a raging success.

So with Fox Studios keeping the rights to Silver Surfer and Galactus, now the Surfer’s name has popped up in relation to a potential Fantastic Four sequel. Jamie Bell, who is playing Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, says he would like to see the Silver Surfer as the next villain.

“You can’t get away from Silver Surfer,” Bell told ComicBook.com. “I know chronologically speaking that was the next villain in the previous franchise but I think Silver Surfer is cool looking.”

While the Fantastic Four movie has been getting some heat online, what I do appreciate about the film is that it’s a more serious take on science-fiction than the previous campy movies — and even Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. A really hard core serious approach with the Surfer would be out of this world.

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Now a second potential villain named for the Fantastic Four sequel will be a little more difficult to use than the Silver Surfer. In the same interview, Michael B. Jordan, who plays Johnny Storm, aka Human Torch, recommends Namor.

“Namor is a cool one,” Jordan said. “By far, he’s the strongest mutant. You know what I’m saying? Maybe not by far, but he’s the strongest mutant. It would be a pretty interesting battle, the Fantastic Four vs. Namor.”

The issue with Namor is that Fox Studios doesn’t own the rights to the character. Actually, both Universal Studios and Marvel Studios have their hands tied to the character, so unless both studios would agree to lend Fox Namor (which wouldn’t be unheard of as Sony and Marvel have come to a mutual deal for Spider-Man), The Sub-Mariner would be out of the question.

As Jordan notes, Namor has a history with the Fantastic Four, which would be pretty cool on the big screen if we did see the FF taking on Atlantis.

“The classic one where he’s running rampant and the only way he’ll stop is if he gets a kiss from Sue right in front of Reed. It’s awesome. I think that would make for a good movie and storyline.”

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“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Fantastic Four “Team” Promo Clip

Fox has released another clip for Fanastic Four with “Team,” which can be watched above.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: New Fantastic Four Clip & Spots; Tickets On Sale

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Fantastic Four tickets are officially on sale and can be purchased through Fandango for early Thursday night screenings.

Fox has also released two new international action-packed spots as well as a clip. Check them out below.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Fantastic Four Reed Richards Featurette

A new featurette focusing on Miles Teller’s Reed Richards has been released for Fantastic Four and can be watched above.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Fox Keeping Fantastic Four Reviews Under Wraps Until Release

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When various news sites are given advanced viewings of movies, their reviews are usually first given to the movie studios, with the studios also setting the timetable the reviews can be released.

Some reviews are online a week or two in advance of the movie’s release, which helps to give said movie a little free publicity. In addition, movie aggregate sites like WB’s Rotten Tomatoes can then rate the movie and so forth.

Regarding the advanced reviews for the Fantastic Four movie, it’s learned Fox Studios is holding them out until the film’s release, which obviously raises the question whether the reviews are mostly negative.

Kyle Buchanan, a Senior Editor at Vulture, tweeted out that Fox won’t let the online reviews for Fantastic Four be released until the day before the movie is out, and the paper reviews only when the movie is officially released.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Fantastic Four Promo Makes Fun Of Why Thing Has No Pants

Fox must be listening to the online chatter surrounding the Fantastic Four reboot as the above viral video takes on why the Thing has no pants.

Other than the fact that the Thing must not need to go to the bathroom(?), or that it’s guessed The Thing doesn’t have any junk (?), the video explains that the suits used by the members of the Fantastic Four are containment suits, and as the Thing’s skin is impenetrable, he doesn’t need one.

“For obvious reasons it was unnecessary to develop a containment suit for asset four,” the video states.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Stan Lee Supports Michael B. Jordan: Defends Fans’ Complaints

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While Stan Lee doesn’t want Spider-Man to change any time soon, the 92-year-old Marvel creator says he is okay with Michael B. Jordan playing Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movie, and Stan Lee even defends fans who have complained about it.

“It was more than okay,” Lee told EW.com about Jordan cast as Johnny Storm. “I thought it was a great idea!”

Michael B. Jordan weighed in as well noting Stan Lee sent Fantastic Four director Josh Trank an e-mail about it.

“[If] Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, ‘You’re good. I’m okay with this,’ who am I to go against that?” Jordan questioned.

While true, there have been many complaints online about the casting (actually, not just about the casting, but a lot of other things such as the Thing not having any pants), Stan Lee offers it’s not about being racist, but about the fact that the Human Torch has changed.

“They’re outraged not because of any personal prejudice,” Lee offered. “They’re outraged because they hate to see any change made on a series and characters they had gotten familiar with. In Spider-Man, when they got a new actor, that bothered them, even though it was a white actor. I don’t think it had to do with racial prejudice as much as they don’t like things changed. But I think they’re gonna get to love this character. So I’m not the least bit worried about it. I always tried to pepper these groups with as much racial diversity as possible because that’s the way the world is.”

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Fantastic Four Science Featurettes

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Fox released four featurettes for Fantastic Four featuring theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku with “Wormholes,” “Teleportation,” “Invisibility” and “Alternate Dimensions.”

Check them out below.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Watch: Fantastic Four Power Piece Promos

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Fox has released four “Power Piece” promos for Fantastic Four.

Check them out below.

“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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Bryan Singer Confirms X-Men & Fantastic Four Movie Talks

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A crossover movie with the X-Men and Fantastic Four has been rumored for quite some time, with it also leaked that Fox is planning a movie via the Sony e-mail hacks.

Now X-Men director Bryan Singer admits talks are currently going on.

“Those ideas are in play,” Singer told Yahoo movies. “That would be a natural match-up because they’re both ensemble films and there is a natural mechanism by which to do it.”

Singer also teased how they will bring the two teams together.

“It deals with time,” Singer said. “That’s all I’m going to say.”

While talks are underway, a Fantastic Four X-Men movie is not guaranteed because it depends on the success of next month’s Fantastic Four movie as well as X-Men: Apocalypse next year.

“We’ll have to see how the films turn out,” Singer offered. “To just say you’re going to do it would be a mistake, you have to see how the films evolve before you make that decision to completely commit to that.”

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Watch: 2 Minutes Of Fantastic Four

Check out two minutes worth of footage above for Fantastic Four as four new spots have been released.

Fantastic Four has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.

Synopsis:

FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

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