Fantastic Four reboot

IESB has learned that 20th Century Fox will do a total remake of the Fantastic Four movie series. Instead of opting to have the cast of the first two movies return, the movie studio will be recasting the film and giving it a grittier tone. While the first two movies did make money ($330 and $290 million respectively), the films never caught on with fans or reviewers.

The movie studio will most likely follow the success of Iron Man, combining action sequences with a darker themed hero.  Hollywood has been enamored with gritty looking films lately as many of them, with a few notable exceptions, perform well at the box office. Also, rebooting existing franchises is likely to be a formula oft repeated in coming years as Daredevil and the Planet of the Apes are also in line for makeovers.

It will be interesting to see how they go about this effort. I was less than thrilled with the casting choices of the first Fantastic Four. Jessica Alba is gorgeous but she was miscast as Sue Storm. I think they only got Michael Chiklis as The Thing somewhat right. I’m also okay with the darker theme for this franchise. The Fantastic Four with its constant struggles against extraterrestrial villains and Dr. Doom lends itself well with such an approach. The two earlier films were definitely too “bubblegum.”

Via IESB.

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