Fantastic Four reboot-- Casting, Rumors, Pix, ect;

Most of the recent Marvel movies have drawn elements from the Ultimate universe, or done similar things -- Galactus as a cosmic swarm, the Hulk's origin being linked to supersoldier serum, Nick Fury looking like Samuel L. Jackson, etc. Which makes sense, since both the Ultimate Universe and the movies are attempts to reinvent the Marvel universe with more modern sensibilities, to filter out some of the sillier, more dated, or more problematical aspects of the original works.

 

^ Yes. I'm aware of that. I meant though with their ages this time. As I mentioned above they're much younger characters in the Ultimate Universe.

 

If they'd made it a couple of years ago, they could've tied it to the X-Men First Class era. But with DOFP jumping forwards to the 1970s, I suppose that window has closed.

 

His implied age goes up and down a bit, I think. A comic book cover from 2011 puts his date of birth as 1961, but a one-off special from 1998 or so has Ben Grimm remarking that not one of the four had been born yet in 1961. Personally, I take his and Grimm's ages as having been about the same as Stan Lee's in 1961 and so probably fiftyish now. Maybe they should have marked the FF's fiftieth anniversary by making it Reed or Ben's fiftieth birthday. (I think it was X-Men #24 in 1993 that had the Beast musing about his own impending thirtieth. Thought it was a nice touch.)

 

Actually, yes. Jonah Hill should leave this planet as soon as possible. If there's a mission to Mars, he should be the first choice.

 

Not a fan, I take it?

 

The Ultimate Universe was also designed to be a cinematic universe with most of the original story arcs being set up like motion pictures. Fury was designed based on Jackson, the X-Men wore uniforms similar to the movie uniforms.

A lot of the movie costume designs are very similar to the Ultimate Universe as well with the exception being Iron Man.

 

And now it's dinner.

 

Does the mean that 5 years down the line, he'll be cast as Captain America too when they reboot that franchise?

 

I've never even heard of that site before. The last report they were overhauling the script so it seems to me that casting would still be awhile until they lock in the story Trank and Fox are happy with. Plus I've not seen that pop up on any of the regular reputable sites like Cinemablend or Comingsoon.

 

Yeah, I won't put even a little trust in the story until it appears on a site I've actually heard of.

 

Glad to see others going "what site?", I thought the same thing.

 

The Fantastic Four Reboot Moving to June 19, 2015

I guess FOX needed the extra time to do the movie. It will now be released between Avengers 2 and MOS2, and be facing a PIXAR movie which is tougher competition...

 

Aw, man, they're still making this? I was hoping it would be abandoned and revert back to Marvel.

 

Slightly OT, but here is the trailer for "Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's 'The Fantastic Four'".

For the record, I've seen this movie, and enjoyed more than either of the big-screen fiascos that we got.

 

^ hear hear. It's very true to the comics. And the Thing costume is surprisingly good, considering the budget involved.

 

I agree. It's much more faithful than the more recent ones, and pretty entertaining.

 

I am a fan of that movie too. If a official release ever happens I would buy it right away. I liked the cast much better than the recent one.