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Up and Coming Writer Jeremy Slater Hired for 'Fantastic Four' Reboot

by Ethan Anderton
July 13, 2012
Source: Heat Vision

The feature film presence at Comic-Con this year has certainly dwindled a bit with many studios opting out of the convention completely, but the news surrounding comic book properties hasn't slowed down at all. David Slade is no longer directing Daredevil and Jessica Biel is playing Viper in The Wolverine and now, hot on the heels of confirmation that Chronicle director Josh Trank would helm Fox's reboot of Fantastic Four, Heat Vision has word on who will write the script. Up and coming writer Jeremy Slater has been hired to write the new franchise beginning about a family of superheroes who don't always get along well.

Slater already has a burgeoning career as his horror spec script Tape 4, which centers around the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft has been set up at Lionsgate, not to mention My Spy, a teenage spy comedy that just got picked up by Universal Pictures with Bad Teacher helmer Jake Kasdan attached to direct. However, we've heard from our own sources that what really landed him this superhero job is another spec script he wrote called The Man of Tomorrow which is essentially an alternate take on Batman and Superman without every mentioning the characters by name beyond their super powers and background. It's apparently very gritty and set in an alternate 1940's time period with a lot of style. As long as it's not a silly, family comedy with superheroes this time around, I'll be happy.

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Big Boss

It'd be dope to see them give The Thing the "Avengers Hulk" treatment. That, I'd PAY to see.
- jar-red
  
  I couldn't see Thing moving around like Hulk. Hulk and Thing are two different people. Hulk is more animalistic and attacks out of pure anger and frustration. Thing acts differently. It wouldn't make sense to me to see Thing have the kind of treatment Hulk got; plus Hulk is just better than Thing.
DAVIDPD

Huh...(holding breath).
Clues

I liked Fantastic Four...not every superhero movie has to be Batman. I guess they could aspire to be Avengers-like. But really, enough of the gritty reboot. As if everything's so dandy we need to be dragged into the grim broody hero every single time.
- Shane
  
  Agreed. Why do so many clamor for a darker version of the original? Is dystopic the only acceptable tone for a remake? I enjoyed the FF movies and the Dark Knight Trilogy. Can't we enjoy a variety of tones in our superhero movies? C. S. Lewis implied on more than one occasion that adolescents cannot enjoy lighter fare such as the fairy tales, but children and adults can. To enjoy such stories, it either takes a certain degree of innocence or a certain degree of maturity to not disdain innocence.
  - SubSumeYou
    
    I'm not clamoring for a dark story, I need a story that is told well and that has integrity. Both FF movies do not possess this.
    - cage1
      
      Well if you think about it all movies need a lead up and developmental period for a character. More so with comic book heros. You can't expect them to go to space get hit by the field and bam they know exactly what happened and that they have powers and how to use them. What did you see Spiderman get bit then bam he was swinging from web to web. No it took time for him to figure out he had the abilities he had.
    - Soylent Green Is People
      
      The other thing missing from the first FF movies is solid acting. The only guys that did their job were Evans and Chiklis. The rest of them were sub-par actors doing a sub-par job.
  - http://idleprimate.blogspot.ca/ idleprimate
    
    well put, good point
Roguedork19

This movie needed a reboot. I liked them, but now they are almost painful to watch. The only good thing about them now it the Thing's costume. I would give a kidney to wear that suit around for a day. Michael Chiklis is so lucky
- ok
  
  They were always painful to watch.
  - cage1
    
    Speak for yourself. I own them and watch them all the time.
http://www.facebook.com/iam.strange Iam Strange

For the love of god, please make The Thing look like he does in the comics, rocky, not like a lumpy mud-man.
- betaray100
  
  You obviously haven't read a Fantastic Four comic that came out before the 80s.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D4UR5Q763UBTU5M4ZESOB6VBX4 Bill
  
  Actually one of my favorite Marvel Two-in-One issues was the Thing teamed up with the Thing. One was the later rock skinned and the other the lumpy mud-man type. It was a time travel story where been takes nack a cure Reed created for him that "Would've worked a few years earlier."
- http://www.facebook.com/TheOfficer971 James A Barnes Jr.
  
  Before the 1980's...The thing did look like a lumpy mud man, but I get what you're saying, because the problem I had with The Thing is they made him the size of the average man when since the mid to late 70's The Thing was drawn to be as physically big as The Hulk...just not as strong....
rennmaxbeta

Hollywood will keep trying till they get it right.
jerryofthewest

I enjoyed the first FF film as good-hearted entertainment, but it was not really what I wanted to see based on reading the comics themselves, so I welcome a reboot.
- Indori4n
  
  Yes, me too. Chris Evans also wears Cap. America costume and leave behind the "flames"! xD
  - cage1
    
    I liked him more as Torch
    - Pitt90
      
      Me, too. Totally. IMHO, he was the only one in the original FF movie that sorta "got" their character. I found him boring and wooden as Cap ... 'course, I find Cap kinda boring and wooden, so ...
http://twitter.com/YourManAdrian Adrian Casillas

The FF movies were way too PG-13. Past 1 was bearable but part 2 was a disaster. I hope they get it right this time.
- http://www.facebook.com/will.stryder Will Stryder
  
  You are totally wrong! If you don't like easy going, action comedies, then don't see these films. They were good fun and should never be dark. The dark knight rises takes itself so seriously that they completely lose the thrill of seeing bat man. As soon as I saw the pic of Bane standing atop a tumbler, I knew it would suck. Batman Begins was awesome and The Dark Knight is perfect! Why they would make a film where Batman has retired is lame.
  - KainsLegion
    
    The minority has spoken. One of the Ten people that didn't enjoy Dark Knight Rises has spoken.
  - http://twitter.com/YourManAdrian Adrian Casillas
    
    Batman retires because that's what happens in the comics, simple as that. DUH.
  - cage1
    
    To some extent I agree with you. Batman rocks. With Bane they made a big mistake with him and him in it. First off you can't have Bane without Ivy. It was Ivy's potion that made him. Plus Bane towered over Batman. He was not the same size. Some characters have to be done dark for them to be done right. Ghostrider is a prime example. He was a dark character and making him PG hurt him. I enjoyed the ones Cage did but to do him right he has to be dark.
Dennis B.

I loved the 1st 2 Fantastic Four films, but I wouldn't mind seeing a more 'badass' version of them. Just to give us a little variety. Let's have it! ;~D
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=768069601 Alec Grimes

Colton Haynes ( Jackson on Teen Wolf) for johnny Storm. Colton's definately got that arrogrance/pretty boy mentality that he plays so well on teen Wolf. He'd be my pick for Johnny Storm, The Thing needs to be CGI/motion capture performance. Go with Andy Serkis ( Golum/ceaser...Rise of the planet of the Apes/King Kong) for the performance capture.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Maxwell/100001028918043 Aaron Maxwell

I enjoyed the first two FF movies, but agree that they were too 'PG-13'. I think there is a disconnect with the suits who control the money for these movies. I think they see comic book/superhero movies as fodder for children. I think that's why the FF movies turned out the way they did. Little do those suits understand that the target audience is really the 40, 50, and 60 somethings who were kids when they read the original comics and, now, want to see their childhood superheros brought to life on the big screen. But they don't want to see comedic parodies of their superheros, they want to see them placed into the 'real world', as if such people and circumstances could really exist. They want to see not just the explosions and stunts, but also the characters...their motivations, emotions, weaknesses and personalities. FWIW, I'm a sixty-something and that's what I want to see in a superhero movie.
- http://idleprimate.blogspot.ca/ idleprimate
  
  it seems to me there was always a lot of humour and banter in FF, and while many storylines were epic or cosmic in scope, it was for the most part never a dark or gritty comic, it was fun, especially back in the day when todays 40-60 yr olds were reading it as children. superheroes were invented to entertain children. the stories offer pleasure to adults a s well, but i feel sad when people want to take characters like FF or spiderman and make movies that aren't for children to enjoy.
  - Reddog
    
    The children grow up. And those who grow up are the ones who pay to see the movies, with matured brains who no longer want to see Bob the Builder in a feature film. There are plenty of kiddie movies released all the time, I'll take my superhero movies as evolved as I have become. Why wouldn't you want a realistic movie? Realism only helps plausability and enjoyment of the masses, which generates huge income, and more movies. Not a relatively small group of 8 year olds and their parents.
- cage1
  
  For them to make a movie to a certain point that they want it to be at they would have to throw out the ratings. They want it out there for all adiances. Look at the Ghost Rider. To do him right they need a Rated R rating. He was a dark charcater and not comical like Cage did with him. I liked them don't get me wrong but to do him right that is the rating they need. For your audiance comment your wrong. I am only 34 and have loved Marvel and DC for years. My daughter is 15 and also loves Marvel. So your age range is way off. Now to go off that logic The Avengers sucked.There was way to much comedic crap in it. But the Avengers is a brillant movie. So your logic is off to. Hell X-MEN was great and I don't ever remember Wolverine making funny cracks all the time. Like when he teased Cyclops.
  - jar-red
    
    I disagree, Avengers was a great film; they had a touch of everything in there and it worked brilliantly. As for the X-Men movies they weren't God awful, but they weren't anything special. They made Cyclops TOO big of a sissy. Plus they didn't even introduce some of the main great X-Men until the last film. Yet they were still lacking in the X-Men and Brotherhood ideals of human and mutant kind. I liked Jackman as Wolverine, that is about it. I think they need to make a re-boot. Have the iconic characters that everyone knows and loves from both sides.
  - http://www.facebook.com/chriszephyr Chris Brewer
    
    i agree i think to do any superhero movie it needs to be r-rated to any justice to the original material
irk

Doom better be the Doom from the comics this time around. He was such a puss in the first two FF films. To me, he's in the same realm as Darth Vader, so he needs to be menacing. In the films he was portrayed as just some grumpy dude who stayed up too late drinking and playing video games.
- MortarFire
  
  You are absolutely right. Also, the incredible dikk-headedness of the Human Torch was WAY over the top...
- Jack
  
  Thing is, and even Lucas himself confirmed this, Darth Vadar was never meant to be the badass figure people interpret him as. He was meant to be somewhat pitiful actually, at the feet of the emperor with very little in the way of personal choice or thought. He was meant to be felt for and pitied.
  - http://post404.com/ Randall "texrat" Arnold
    
    I think irk's point is still valid though.
  - Valokiloren
    
    One thing you need to remember though, is that Lucas decides to change things on a whim all the time. Especially his mind. Originally, the Emperor was supposed to be a puppet on the throne controlled by the military and Vader, something Lucas has also confirmed. Which means one of those two things is wrong and a lie.
eric from canada

i would love to see a reboot, chris evans makes a good Torch...but a better Captain, so lets let someone else have the flames
- cage1
  
  I disagree I think he made a better Torch
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D4UR5Q763UBTU5M4ZESOB6VBX4 Bill
  
  His portrayal of Johnny Storm was very good. So good I was concerned he'd fall on his face as the more adult/serious Cap. I'm so glad my fears were unfounded.
http://www.facebook.com/miggy.untalan Miggy Untalan

Can't it be something for everyone to enjoy but with the real world like The Amazing Spider-Man or The Avengers. Not everything has to be dark and gritty. And if they choose the "Dark and Gritty" it will most likely suck. The Fantastic Four are a family not Batman. Their Situations are dark but they aren't... You get my point
- cage1
  
  Thank you. But the only way to do some characters is to go dark. Ghost Rider is a great example. He was a dark character so do him that way. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed them the way they are but to do him right he has to be dark.
- jsmith0552
  
  You're both right, but the FF is not a dark book. In fact as it's written right now, it a damn good read. They're can be some light moments in it, but the first two films just didn't seem to capture the feel of the FF at all, except for Johnny Storm.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paulo-Figueiredo/100000596590485 Paulo Figueiredo

I hope they put Galactus on the movie. Not a shadow or a giant cloud, but actually the real character.
- http://www.facebook.com/bradley.conder1 Bradley Conder
  
  They can't. They sold him back to marvel in exchange for keeping Daredevil.
  - Some Random Guy
    
    Keep up! They wanted to but Fox refused. Fox still have Daredevil, FF, Galactus and the Silver Surfer. But the Daredevil rights are gonna revert back to Marvel because no-one wants to direct the Fox version. I'd prefer it if Marvel could have all their characters back (especially Ghost Rider; Hollywood needs to get him right; in a 15). I think the new FF film should have the tone of 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. It was darker than the original Sam Raimi trilogy but nowhere near as dark as the 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
    - jackson vega III
      
      By 'in a 15' im presuming you mean a 15 certificate. Id say youve got more chance of fox doing an adult orientated ghost rider film than Marvel/disney ever doing one, Marvel are gonna stick to ther successful but heartbreaking (if like me you want to see a bit of ultra violence and autuerism in ur comic book movies) film making process of good casting, mediocre directors willing to bend to marvels cinematic universe, somewhat light hearted films aimed at the lowest common denominator. Who knows with this guy doing FF and mangold doing the wolverine movie fox could actually be about to realise that good directors with good visions make good comic book movies, something that after the ridiculous success of the avengers Marvel is never going to realise
      - Soylent Green Is People
        
        Sounds like the superhero movies you want to see aren't the superhero movies that the studios are going to make because they aren't the superhero movies everyone else wants to see (and those are the ones that make enough money to justify the massive budgets required to do the CGI properly).
      - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003037095323 Jerilyn Nighy
        
        Agree. I wanted to see a Captain America movie set in WWII like the gritty parts of the Brubaker/Epting run, and Steranko-esque when he is revived.
      - http://www.keelstech.com/ Lee Keels
        
        Orientated is not a word. Try oriented.
    - cage1
      
      I prefer Raimi's Spiderman. I actually never saw all of the AS and don't plan to. I just heard that they changed alot of it from the origin of SM. The only thing that look good with the AM is Lizard.
      - Elmakai
        
        So you haven't seen the Amazing Spiderman, but you know that you prefer Raimi's? You know, I prefer movies I've seen over ones I haven't seen also. You can't make a judgement on a movie you've never seen.
      - JC
        
        the new spiderman SUCKS!!!!! I saw it and was COMPLETELY disappointed! don't waste your time finishing the movie. After I watched it, the first, original spiderman happened to be on tv and when I watched that, it was REFRESHING to see a well thought out, well written movie again. With normal, sense-making plots and characters. I think the fact that the new guy who plays spiderman is a homo (look it up) has something to do w how awkward the peter/gwen moments are on the new film. (this is just one of the film's MANY MANY flaws) but trust me cage: you made the right choice!
      - 0ldn1k
        
        You are one sad individual, casting aspersions on a persons sexuality, by citing "look it up" and blaming it for why you didn't like the film is truly pathetic, in reality ( try it some time) he is actually dating his co-star, as in a real life heterosexual relationship, not that being a"homo" somehow denigrates his acting ability, I suggest you either crawl back under your homophopic rock, or drag your sorry arse into the 21st century, some people are gay, get over it...
  - cage1
    
    I don't get what you mean by that. FF is a Marvel group. If Galactus is origianlly in FF comics and what not that makes him Marvel. Daredevil is also Marvel how do you sell things back to a company that already owns them.
    - Soylent Green Is People
      
      Marvel has the ability to license it's properties out to other people if it wants. And it licensed a bunch of characters to Fox. That's why Marvel doesn't make Spiderman or FF movies at present.
      - cage1
        
        Ok that I didn't fully know thanks. But with them being Marvel Characters do they not have like final say in what happens with the character. Someone has to make them into movies but do they not have to ok it first and ok a script since they are Marvel.
      - Soylent Green Is People
        
        I'm not sure about the specifics of the licensing agreement between Marvel and Fox but there is probably some sort of clause that specifically lays out what Fox cannot do (i.e. they cannot do anything that would denigrate the brand or the characters). Other than that, Marvel has no creative control over the script or the direction of the movies made by Fox with characters under license from Marvel.
- cage1
  
  Well the fact that he was a cloud in the Rise of the Surfer is because he was only just coming to earth. The actually character was not there yet. He was supposed to be in the next instalment if they made it. Like every movie there has to be a lead up to a character and that is what they did with Galactus
- kyle shaw
  
  A 200 foot guy in a purple helmet? That was "the" most brilliant creative licence they took in the movie by not going with that, but rather making him different. That would have been over the top rediculous!
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003037095323 Jerilyn Nighy
    
    So you know better than Jack Kirby and Stan Lee about the proper aesthetics of a superhero milieu?
TefferMcG

Woa, that Man of Tomorrow flick sounds more interesting than FF. Wonder if it's based in part on Moore's Whatever Happened to...??
http://www.facebook.com/sbday Scott Day

The dark, brooding bit has become like a "bridging of the gap" for the people who didn't ever have an interest in picking up a comic book. They want to see these characters come to life, and in doing so, they won't be put into a world of "bangs!" and "BIFF!'s" like in the days of Adam West. Its death, despair, and destruction for modernized super heroes. Like it or not, we'll all end up paying to see it in theaters.
- cage1
  
  Maybe. I still haven't seen The Amazing Spiderman and don't plan to. I seen pictures and the trailer and that is as close as I am gonna get to seeing it.
CainCrow

Please make Thing HUGE like Hulk. Not the shortest member of the team.
- StillAmused
  
  The Thing shouldn't be the shortest member, but he has never been portrayed as large as the Hulk.
freeete

Dammit Fox, you couldn't leave it alone could you and just let Marvel have thier shit back....
InvisibleZombie

Can we just have a third FF movie, not really a sequel but not an entire re-boot? We don't need to see new origins every ten years. Just make a fantastic film. James Bond has gone on for decades without giving up a spy origin every few years.
- MineDogger
  
  They can't... The producers made too many mistakes and the sequel just piled them higher. I do agree that we don't need another origin story tho, everybody already knows all the characters' backstories, and if they don't, they can pick up a COMIC BOOK (gasp!) Just cast the characters right this time (no beautiful hispanic girls as beautiful Swedish girls,) and properly represent the heroes and villains, (please no douchebag-Electro Dr. Doom,) and tell a story.
  - Cyberxion
    
    I don't think that expecting your audience to have to pick up a comic-book for some much-needed context is the best way to go. I'd ideally like to see the origin handled the way The Incredible Hulk handled it, by limiting it to the film's opening credits sequence and then just moving the hell on.
  - http://www.facebook.com/drouinp Philippe Drouin
    
    The reason why we don't need another origin story is that the first movie really gives us a good idea who the characters are. Get to the real action. I don't give a shit about reading comic books. Hollywood needs to stop with all these superhero movies. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that Antman will get no love from me. The studios actually think that they can keep release C list superhero movies. Eventually the audience will stop spending money on crap.
    - http://www.facebook.com/UriWasHere Uri Jamal Charles
      
      Woah, you sure as hell told them. Superhero movies aren't going any damn place and with good reason. At the end of the day it's about money, and if you did some research every single super hero movie/franchise has pulled in at least a billion dollars. TDK and Avengers are in the top 10 highest grossing movies in human history. So? And you have absolutely no point to be posting on here with your hard ass statement about not reading comic books. Keep being ignorant thinking antman is useless, it's probably why you think its a C list movie. Moronic.
      - jsmith0552
        
        @ Philippe. I guess you're tired of movies based on novels as well? Consider superheroes a genre, like Westerners or detective stories. Personally, I'd like to see the FF done right. You could tell from the get go that the people behind this movie were only cashing in on what they thought was a fad. They put absolutely no thought or imagination into it, other than a bit of inspired casting. But they totally wrecked one of the best comic villains around with the way they handled Dr. Doom. Still if Batman can make a comeback from where it was at when Nolan took over, there may be help for the franchise, regardless of what naysayers like you think.
- Lucia Malpense
  
  Chris Evans is playing Captain America now, so they need to recast Johnny at the very least... and recasting one of the main characters is a bad idea. Therefore, they need to reboot.
  - http://www.facebook.com/JSWebbie Jamie Sweat
    
    One thing they do all the time in storytelling is the "unknown" or "lost" brother or sister that is found. So why not have them discover than Cap is Johnny Storm's unknown twin? Or at least a very close look-alike sibling. Who knows....maybe a cousin. It's one workaround to be able to not have to do a full reboot. He can play both characters. They will rarely be in the same movie. (Makes you wonder what they were thinking by casting him as Cap in the first place.) It kinda sucks to have the new Spidey for instance, and then have the Toby McGuire run on the shelf. Loses a lot of interest. (Although in that case, it seems McG was an ass about coming back for more movies in the series.....sign them to a contract for 6 movies just to be sure ) The same would happen with the other FF movies.
  - yaya
    
    They recast Batman bunch of times. I want to see a reboot of the FF because frankly, the two movies sucked.
- J-Dizzle
  
  Casino Royale with Daniel Craig was at the beginning of the film an origin of sorts. It showed how he gained 007 status so your point is moot!
  - JD Harris
    
    Nothing I do is MOOT! Nothing! :p But hey, if they've never shown an origin for Bond then that's something they needed. Comics in the early days either had a 1 to 3 page origin or they didn't have one and did it years later. Think of River Phoenix's small Indiana Jones flashback. My point is, Hollywood has been afraid of super-heroes for decades, they approach them tentatively, afraid to put them in their original costume tights (though that usually does need tweaking in real-life), feel the need to make an event or a blockbuster instead of just having the confidence to make a good movie, and generally make poor casting choices. Hey, I think they've always had the same problems when bringing Broadway hits to the big screen. Superhero animated shows are far more comfortable with their writing, and continuity, and now that we have the technology to make really great-looking fantasy/sci-fi/hero movies, they just need to take the confidence that the animators have with their product and just move that business model into the live-action world. I think John McClane survived more physical comic-book punishment in "Live Free or Die Hard" than Batman has ever been through!
    - jsmith0552
      
      Actually I have to agree with you to some extent. Why after all do we get all these movies that show how partners come to understand and work with each other? It's like the only story Hollywood knows how to tell about people who work together. You see this especially in movies based on television series. Did we really need to know how James West and Artemis Gordon came to respect each other? Hell no, they're Government agents it's their job to work together. Same with adaptations like Dragnet, I Spy, The Avengers (John and Emma). Actually when you think about it, the Marvel Avengers is the same story just done a heck of a lot better, and on a much larger scale. Hollywood needs some new screenwriters.
  - InvisibleZombie
    
    Nothing I do is MOOT! Nothing! :p But hey, if they've never shown an origin for Bond then that's something they needed. Comics in the early days either had a 1 to 3 page origin or they didn't have one and did it years later. Think of River Phoenix's small Indiana Jones flashback. My point is, Hollywood has been afraid of super-heroes for decades, they approach them tentatively, afraid to put them in their original costume tights (though that usually does need tweaking in real-life), feel the need to make an event or a blockbuster instead of just having the confidence to make a good movie, and generally make poor casting choices. Hey, I think they've always had the same problems when bringing Broadway hits to the big screen. Superhero animated shows are far more comfortable with their writing, and continuity, and now that we have the technology to make really great-looking fantasy/sci-fi/hero movies, they just need to take the confidence that the animators have with their product and just move that business model into the live-action world. I think John McClane survived more physical punishment in "Live Free or Die Hard" than Batman has ever been through.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Komar/576990705 Jonathan Komar
  
  The backstory could be taken care of similarly to The Incredible Hulk, where during the opening credits you get a cinematic that shows them going into space, getting hit by cosmic rays, and turning into the Fantastic Four, that way, when the movie starts, we've already got them in the Baxter Building and they've already got their powers.
the Doc

Here's an idea, when you watch FF, hold your freakin' Galactus Doll in front of the screen every time the cloud that hurts you so much shows up
FatedScythe777

It needs to be rebooted. Not just because the sequel wasn't on par with the first... Yes I liked the first one. But because Chris Evans is Captain America now. He can't be Captain America and Human Torch.
- cage1
  
  I agree with you with the two roles but I enjoyed both FF movies. Not everyone will like them but I do. I still watch them to this day. One of the reasons I bought them. I wished they went with a FF sequel and brought in Galactus like they were leading up to. I prefer Evans as Torch more.
Donna Noble

the heck? Why a reboot? IT'S TOO EARLY FOR THAT. What's wrong with all the sudden reboots? makes me sick...
- cage1
  
  Then you will really hate this. They are already talking about rebooting Batman to lead into the Justice League. I say bring back Bale as Batman and leave him that way. Bale by far played him the best. In the old ones Keaton did the best and they hurt when he left the role.
  - smc
    
    ... or follow on from DKR and have gorden-levitt as batman, i think he would play the role really well, and that way they already have his story panned out... i know most people want a wayne batman, but it would be an interesting take to do one with blake, just sayin'
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000377235514 Drew Pierce

What's sad is that the Incredibles did the Fantastic Four, then the Fantastic Four. Forget this "family that doesn't get along" crap, just make them a family of superheroes and accurately capture the essence of that and you win. And don't make Dr. Doom a corporate CEO which is the most cliche villain archetype in Hollywood history.
- cage1
  
  Wasn't DOOM a corporate man. Plus I have seen the Incredibles and disagree with you there.
  - http://www.facebook.com/Roy.Woods1 Roy Woods
    
    No. Doom was not a corporate man. In the comic series, Doom is the dictator of a fictional East European country.
    - cage1
      
      Ok thank you I didn't know that. I never paid attention to Doom.
- http://post404.com/ Randall "texrat" Arnold
  
  Agree 100%. The Incredibles portrayed a FF-like group much better than the two FF movies. I got the feeling those involved with FF1 and 2 did not really read the comics... whereas you can tell everyone involved with Iron Man 1 and 2, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers knew their stuff inside and out.
cage1

I actually enjoyed the FF with Alba, Evans and them. Could they emprove sure. What movie can't be emproved a little. I own both FF and the Rise of the Surfer and watch them all the time. I hate the fact eveything has to be re booted. Make a sequel but make it better. I can't understand why people are so harsh about the originals. Sheesh I can name a few movies that sucked that did really well. The only problem is with making a sequel is Evans is Cpt America and is tied up with his sequel and Avengers sequel.
http://twitter.com/HistorianInMe Kayla Sonergoran

you know, i like some of the marvel movies of late such as the avengers, thor, captain america and anticipate their sequels. i even enjoyed dc comics movies such as the dark knight. but just because there is this big superhero kick doesn't mean we should remake all the movies made in the first part of the 21st century. i mean this is taking modern hollywood's need to remake movies to an all new and horrible level.
baz

What happens when they end up rebooting a reboot? would you call that a rereboot?
Savagedarky

Bale was a good Batman now let's pass the cowl. Fantastic Four needs some work as a film effort. Kids play video games that are way darker than comic books were after the code watered them down. Kids can take the darkness if it's there. Hell, some early DIsney was dark like Milificent turning into that huge fire breathing dragon in Sleeping Beauty. Scared my little ass senseless. But it was a good scare.
http://www.facebook.com/james.h.watschke James H Watschke

No comic book movies will matter until a really good Shazam! feature is done. And I DO NOT mean one based on the current bull spit DC is trying to pass off as Captain Marvel( I mean, uggg!, Shazam) in this awful New 52 Justice League back up feature either.
http://www.facebook.com/greg.price.14289 Greg Price

They didn't need to reboot. The first two were very good movies.
Lori High Priestess

I'm not going to apologize for saying that the 2 Fantastic Four films were terrible. Yes of course the Silver Surfer looked great. Yes the fantasti car was cool.. But it wasn't the Fantastic Four that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created. As cool as the Surfer looked, that could not save this disaster on film.. The tragedy of Ben Grimm was always a constant source of conflict and misgivings within the group itself, and was the thing (no pun intended.) that made the FF so compelling in the first place. Yet its trivialized in these films with some lame sight gags and badly played jokes. As much as some people like Michael Chiklis the actor, his portrayal of the thing lacked any meaningful substance. That's not his fault, that's the director's fault. Dr Doom, who was the inspiration for Darth Vader, was a pompous, stuck up, snot nosed, sissy mary. Did anyone really feel any sense of danger from the movie Dr. Doom? For that matter, did the cloud Galactus make anyone nervous? I don't think so. I am not saying to make this like the Dark Knight, I am saying stay true the original characters. There was a lot of emotion and depth in Lee and Kirby's FF whose tagline was the THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMIC MAGAZINE. And it truly was. Just look at the first 100 issues. There is more imagination and creativity in one of those old comics from the 60's than there was in both FF films combined...
- http://post404.com/ Randall "texrat" Arnold
  
  I have to agree. Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers all demonstrate how to portray Marvel properties. I really wish Marvel Studios had them ALL back...
Zorgmas

First off, I liked the Fantastic Four movies. I thought both films were very well done. Admittedly they weren't as well done as some films, like say Batman Begins or Transformers, but they were still good. However, a FF reboot would be good, but only if the writers, producers, and director don't make it into a copy of the previous Fantastic Four movies.
Mantronix

I would like to see Benn Grim change like the HULK sking getting dry, then ripiing to see another orange sking form then turn orange and solid painful.
MortarFire

Thank god. Let's just forget the incredibly dumb first FF movies and restart them with actual Marvel-based logic and facts. Kind of like Alien 3, it's too horrible to think about. Just let it fade away and die.
k

This all should lead to Thanos
http://www.facebook.com/Hard.Candy.Boy Leo Garcia

fck fox.... give the franchiqse back to where it belongs....marvel
http://www.facebook.com/Hard.Candy.Boy Leo Garcia

screw fox,give back FF to marvel....cause of this crappy studio we cant have galactus,SS,FF to the avengers.
http://www.facebook.com/andre.beverley Andre Beverley

Forget all of that,FF needs to be back on Marvel so we can have crossovers with Iron Man.Just give up the license.Reboot it with Marvel in charge.
http://www.facebook.com/demi.psrolozais.7 Demi Voices

Fantastic Four failed as a movie because of piss-poor writing. Stop making a goofy "superheroes family" movie and make it SCIENCE FICTION, with characters that could be superheroes.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Rice/100001198320871 Christopher Rice

Can marvel just get the film rights back to their stuff or atleast get them out of Fox's inept hands?
Jump Stop

Make a FF film with their children in it. Daughter who is a genius and son who shapes reality. That would be a great movie
http://www.facebook.com/dalbrig1 Daryl Albrig

reboot is stupid, origin is established enough and as far as a comic why dont these movies give a free origins comic or a movie based comic with the purchase if a ticket ? that would assure that only those who went to the theater get the limited issue Easter egg.
http://www.facebook.com/anthony.rhodes.16 Anthony Rhodes

I just hope they finally do it right. As someone who grew up with the FF as my favorite comic, I was furious with the first 2 movies. They need to get someone who truly loved the FF to do this one. And the Thing needs to be CG like the Hulk, unless they can somehow make him look big enough without it. The Thing is only a head shorter than the Hulk, and only one step down in strength, as Marvel heroes go. In the comics, he could lift 80 tons. If they could capture the FF of the "Golden Age of Marvel comics" on screen, I have no doubt it could rival the Avengers.
Dude

Malin Akerman as invisible woman!
http://www.facebook.com/lordbeaker Eric Lilly

One FF movie was enough, just as one comic was enough to turn me off of this team.