2005 and 2007’s FANTASTIC FOUR movies which starred the likes of Jessica Alba and Chris Evans haven’t gone down in history as one of the greatest superhero films around. To most people the first film is barely memorable but that’s isn’t surprising considering it came out the same summer as the mighty BATMAN BEGINS. Heck it wasn’t even the most memorable Alba movie released, as SIN CITY burst onto screens during the same season.
The lack of critical success hasn’t stopped the studios from taking the film down the reboot road with CHRONICLES Josh Trank at the helm. Most fans were pretty pleased when this director accepted the job as CHRONICLE is one of the most original films of the last decade or so. It didn’t take long for him to get backs up though with the controversial casting of Michael B. Jordan in the role of The Human Torch, Johnny Storm, brother of Sue.
The rest of the four is composed of BILLY ELLIOT’s Jamie Bell, DIVERGENT’s Miles Teller and American Horror Story’s Kate Mara. IGN caught up with Mara recently and here is what she had to say about the new production:
Well, I don’t know very much about it, which is weird but true!. All I know is that it’s going to be a very different take on the film, which people may not expect. I’m not really familiar with the comic books, I picked up a few when I got the part. I think we’re making a very grounded version of a superhero film. I trust Josh Trank’s vision as I was a huge fan of Chronicle.
What exactly she means by ‘grounded’ has yet to be revealed, though there is chatter of the internet forums that the four will lose their uniform costumes in favour of civilian dress. Given that CHRONICLE was grounded in reality I think it’s safe to say that this outing won’t be quite as kitsch as the previous two films.
Whatever Trank has up his sleeve has definitely got the studios attention though as a sequel has already been green-lit.
THE FANTISTIC FOUR, directed by Josh Trank and starring Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Miles Teller and Michael B Jordon is released 19th June 2015.
Source: IGN
VikkiVonDoom
Apr 10, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Some enormous secrets spilled there. You really should have put a spoiler warning.