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

Eh, that's not a great standard otherwise Shyamalan's racebending controversy would look like a warm summer's day.

 

I thought that announcing that the walking Golem had a semitic heritage was only a ten years oldish revelation? I first read about it on Newsarama... I can think of twice off the top of my head where Ben Grimm met Hitler, and he didn't act out worse than anyone else that hadn't had 3/4's of is people removed in a genocide.

 

I think it was always a part of his history, they just made a bigger deal of it more recently.

I think Stan Lee and Kirby (who were both Jewish boys) had that in mind when they created him.

 

It seems logical, and might have been as big a secret as Northstar's homosexuality which was decided upon almost a decade before the big reveal.

Here's a real world argument against it.... Jews weren't allowed into the same colleges as Christians in the 50s with out a mountain of trouble.

Real world counter argument: Ben Grimm was the greatest football player in the universe so ordinary racism did not apply to him.

 

"Mountain of Trouble" not impossible.

Intolerance and abuse from the student body AFTER admittance.

You can't get into a mountain of trouble if you can't even get in.

 

There's a longstanding Ethiopian Jewish community, so he could be from there.

 

You know how Jennifer Alba is Latino and Chris Evans isn't?

Sometimes the creation of family is complicated and whacky.

 

Jack Kirby was Jewish (as was Lee, but it was Kirby putting himself into Grimm), so they should keep that. And I meant he should be an American with Ethiopian ancestry.

 

Seems to me like there's a lot of black muscle characters in sci-fi media, I think Reed would be more interesting than Ben if they were to go that route with the casting.

 

Here's a driving force you can't get away from.

Ben's Uncle married a hot young trophy wife.

Little Benny spent his youth trying to work his way through all these conflicted incestuous thoughts about Aunt Petunia.

 

I agree. Although I didn't like the actual writer of the recent Firestorm, I thought they did a very nice job of making Ronnie the jock and Jason the intellectual.

There is no reason why the new FF shouldn't take a similar approach.

 

I guess I was thinking in more general terms but Terry Crews is an interesting character if he wants it and is right for the part then go for it.

 

‘Fantastic Four’: Actors and Actresses Lining Up for Roles

 

From the actors suggested...it seems like they're going the Ultimate Fantastic Four route.

 

So is Saoirse Ronan's name going to come up any time a major movie is looking for a young woman now?

 

^ She's a rising superstar.