Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:15 pm

Fox wanted to do a mutant TV show. Hopefully Marvel trade and let them make that in exchange for the FF rights and they can show up in Infinity War (skip the origin story and have them get pulled out of the negative zone or something)

I would actually have loved Marvel to have made an origin story set in the 60s and have the F4 get suck and pulled out later in Infinity War :cry:

strawberry float Fox.

We know Marvel tried for the F4 rights before, so this is basically the situation they had with Sony and Spider-Man :datass:

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Skippy** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:31 pm

If Marvel did get the rights back soon, they should tinker with the origin and just pull in Doom before bringing in the four at a much later date. Audiences can barely stomach three Spider-Man series in fifteen years, and people have actually liked some of those films.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Mafro** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:52 pm

The Fantastic Four could be integrated into the Marvel films so easily it's ridiculous. Reed could have been one of the people SHIELD were keeping tabs on in The Winter Soldier due to his high intellect and experiments. Doom would be an actual ruler of a country. They'd no doubt absolutely nail the casting too like the have done in pretty much every film so far.

I'd love for them to do a Fantastic Four film with them already having Franklin and Valeria Richards grown up a bit as kids like in Hickman's FF. Basically make it like a live action Incredibles.

EDIT: oh, and obviously there's the Skrulls, Galactus, Silver Surfer, Annihilus etc.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:31 am

Trank apparently tweeted and since deleted this on twitter:

https://twitter.com/joshuatrank/status/ ... 6793559040

BID0 wrote:Trank apparently tweeted and since deleted this on twitter:

https://twitter.com/joshuatrank/status/ ... 6793559040

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:47 pm

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:05 pm

He made a lot of the choices with the story, casting, tone.

He stripped the film of nearly everything that made the Fantastic Four the Fantastic Four.

He was rumoured to turn up drunk and high a lot.

His dogs trashed his rented accommodation, reportedly causing $100k worth of damage.

He didn't turn up to work some days.

Simon Kinsberg was drafted in towards the end to finish shooting.

The film needed major reshoots to add back in comic references etc. The 3D version of the film was cancelled and the money that was set aside for that was put towards rebuilding sets and reshooting.

And also Trank has been a bit of a dick on twitter the last year or so, tweeting stuff, deleted tweets and even disabling his account for a time.

He was meant to direct Star Wars Rogue One for Disney but they fired him when all of this began to happen.

This is a lot like Blade 3. It's a miracle that even a movie was able to be put together at the end of it.

The director also co-wrote it. There were reports during filming that he was a mess, supposedly this led to him getting fired from Star Wars.

BID0 wrote:
This is a lot like Blade 3. It's a miracle that even a movie was able to be put together at the end of it.

Blade 3 was more Wesley Snipe's fault than the director's though and according to Patton Oswalt the rest of the cast bonded over the experience.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:23 pm

That's true. Didn't Snipes have a bigger role in the Blade movies than just the lead actor though?

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:36 pm

Apparently Stan Lee doesn't even cameo in this :lol:

I don't think he has ever not featured in a Marvel movie before.

As for the movie, most people seem to say it's a setup for Fantastic Four 2 (set for 2017). There isn't much of a movie beyond that.

BID0 wrote:Apparently Stan Lee doesn't even cameo in this I don't think he has ever not featured in a Marvel movie before.

There are a few he's not in. I think Blade is one.

Lucien wrote:I totally missed that he co-wrote it.

Shame. I was going to go and see this hoping they would breathe some life into a series I've never liked (cartoon and films).

Something something Jonathan Hickman something something.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:53 pm

‘Fantastic Four’ Bombing at the Friday Box Office

“Fantastic Four” is struggling to find its footing at the box office this weekend, suggesting that not even superheroes are immune to poor reviews.

Early estimates show the 20th Century Fox release struggling to hit $30 million for the weekend, which is well below the anticipated mid-$40 million mark. Should the estimates keep plummeting, the opening could prove disastrous for the studio, which spent $120 million on the pic.

Thursday night previews for “Fantastic Four” pulled in a lukewarm $2.7 million at 2,900 locations.

The last major superhero release to premiere under $35 million was Sony’s “The Green Hornet” in 2011 ($33.5 million).

In addition to “Fantastic Four’s” not-so-fantastic 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a damning tweet from the film’s own director, Josh Trank, suggested that even he was disappointed with the final cut. Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell and Miles Teller star in the reboot.

Last weekend’s champ, “Mission Impossible — Rogue Nation,” is tracking close behind “Fantastic Four” with an estimated $27 million weekend. The fifth installment in Paramount’s Tom Cruise franchise should reach $100 million domestically by Monday.

This weekend’s other domestic releases include thriller, “The Gift,” is on track for $8.5 million for the weekend. Joel Edgerton, Rebecca Hall and Jason bateman star in the STX Entertainment release.

Meryl Streep starrer “Ricki and the Flash” is performing similarly to “The Gift.” The TriStar release, about an aging rocker reconnecting with her family, looks poised for a debut between $6 million and $7 million.

The animated “Shaun the Sheep” bowed Wednesday to a disappointing $852,000, suggesting a weekend total around $6 million.

http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office ... 201559318/

$120 Million to make it. You have to roughly double that figure to break even (after thearters take their cut, distribution etc)

So they need $240 Million to break even roughly and that's before you factor in what they may have spent on marketing the movie.

Just went to see this and it was boring. I hadn't seen any previous Fantastic 4 films either but this was boring. I didn't like the actors either and their lines were so lame and annoying.
what a shame

I listened to a really good documentary on radio 4 the other day (about Rock, paper, scissors funnily enough), which touched on something which made me think of this film and is lack of reviews.

The documentary was talking about the Nash Equilibrium and how it means that often films which have no reviews before release etc actually do better than if they did have.

Quite interesting, worth a listen.

This film looks gooseberry fool, mind.

I've not read the comic for years, but remember that the Human Torch and the Invisible girl were Sue and Johnny Storm, brother and sister.

*poster shows white woman and black torch*

In this movie- adoption.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Cosmo** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 9:56 pm

I don't know what's so hard for people to understand about Sue and Johnny being adoptive siblings in this movie. Then again why not just have them both be black (or white)? Is there any real reason for the adoption part?

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Tineash** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:26 pm

Cosmo wrote:I don't know what's so hard for people to understand about Sue and Johnny being adoptive siblings in this movie. Then again why not just have them both be black (or white)? Is there any real reason for the adoption part?

Because Michael B Jordan was in the director's previous film and he wanted an excuse to use him again.

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