Really?
From the surface, a Fantastic Four movie seems like a pretty easy film to accomplish. You figure The Avengers and X-Men consist of a lot more than four members with various powers, attributes and personalities — and then you have the Fantastic Four who consist of a genius human man, a sexy blonde invisible chick, a walking boulder, and a jock who can start a camp fire with the snap of a finger. As simple of a premise as this may seem, 2005′s Fantastic Four was only less of a catastrophe as its 2007 sequel, which somehow managed to make one of the coolest Marvel Comics superheroes (Silver Surfer) boring. Now, the upcoming 2015 seems to be “doomed” before its even been giving an official release date.
A few days ago news broke Fantastic Four’s archenemy, and perhaps the most notable villain in Marvel Comics, Doctor Doom, will get a new, “hip” and more realistic backstory. Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) will play the notorious supervillain in the reboot, talked about the revised character in a recent interview:
He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours—I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m “Doom”.
That’s right, the great Victor Von Doom has been reduced to a nerdy tech guy with an attitude. If that’s not enough, director Josh Trank who previously directed Chronicle, will bring back the first person POV he’s become known for in the film. “Yeah, it was cool man. Josh, the whole deal, the lo-fi way he did it, the ultra-real. It was just nice to do that.” The whole shaky, amateur video style might’ve worked for Chronicle because it was a brand new title and revolved around teenagers in an age where everything is caught on video. It’s hard to see how this will work for the Fantastic Four, but we suppose only time will tell.
Fantastic Four hits theaters Aug. 7, 2015.
Khari Clarke will catch the Fantastic Four on DVD, but until then you can catch him on Twitter (@KINGCLARKEIII).
