Fantastic
Four Reboot Re-casting Rumors
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Would
he say "Richards!" in the same tone as
"Sookeh!" ?
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From
Louisiana to Latveria, the internet has been chattering
this morning that Fox is rapidly moving forward with casting
on their reboot/requel to Fantastic Four.
Last
week it seemed that either Adrien Brody or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
was being considered to play Reed Richards; Comic
Book Movie claims inside information that Brody has
now taken the lead in that race.
Certainly
that's not a terrible choice. Brody has high box office
recognition, though if you follow Marvel's logic, it's the
characters that matter, not the actors. Yet after the general
fandom's coolness toward Fox's earlier Fantastic Four
movies, the studio may really need some high-profile names
and faces to get butts in seats.
Such
as the best rumor to voice the all-CG Thing and play Ben
Grimm in a few key scenes: Bruce Willis. Previous Ben Grimm
Michael Chiklis would still work for me, but obviously they
can't have that kind of carry over or people might get confused.
According to Comic Book Movie, the current vision of the
script has the origin playing out under the opening credits,
just as was done with The Incredible Hulk. Presumably
that would be the bulk of Willis' on-camera work.
It also
looks like the reboot would feature Doctor Doom as the antagonist.
As tired as that may seem, it also makes sense. Once Stan
Lee and Jack Kirby established Doctor Doom in their original
run, if he wasn't the one actually combatting the foursome,
he was often the one causing trouble by putting someone
else up against them.
To play
Victor Von Doom, Comic Book Movie reports that Fox has put
an offer out to True Blood's Stephen Moyer. Sure,
he has the courtly bearing, and could easily throw on an
aristocratic tone, but the real question is would he wear
the mask through most of the movie? For me, that's been
the weakest element of superhero movies -- actors not willing
to do the mask work. (That's why Hugo Weaving makes such
a great choice for the Red Skull in Captain America;
he already proved he'll leave his face unseen in V For
Vendetta.)
Fox
apparently plans for Fantastic Four to return to
the screen in the summer of 2012 -- right up against Joss
Whedon's The Avengers. While that might not confuse
audiences (it's doubtful that they'd open in the same week),
the real battle will be where it counts: the Happy Meal
franchise. My bets are on Fantastic Four at Burger
King and The Avengers at McDonald's. Leaving Green
Lantern 2 at Taco Bell.
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