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

[Christopher]

Heck, the orange was probably just the closest they could come to brown using the limited color palette of early comics. Just like Batman's "blue" cape was originally supposed to be a black cape with blue used to represent its highlights (much like characters meant to be black-haired were often shown with blue hair).

Then again, Kirby originally intended the Thing to be scaly, not rocky. The rocky texture came from later artists' interpretations. So maybe he was meant to be orange.

 

[the G-man]

Then again, Kirby originally intended the Thing to be scaly, not rocky. The rocky texture came from later artists' interpretations. So maybe he was meant to be orange.

Actually, Kirby himself switched to drawing the Thing with the rocky texture fairly early in the character's development IIRC. And didn't Kirby draw the book for approximately 100 issues, most of which featured the rocky thing

 

[Christopher]

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/03/25/comic-book-legends-revealed-253/

You see, first off, Kirby wanted the Thing to be like dinosaur hide.
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Even after he first made the Thing change appearance, Kirby was STILL thinking in terms of “dinosaur hard plates” rather than “rocks.”
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[Inker] Dick Ayers could never figure out what Kirby wanted, but TRIED to at least move from the Thing being “muddy” to the Thing being “scaly,” but it was not until Goerge Roussos began inking the book that the Thing pretty much overnight became “rocky,” as Roussos tried to capture what he thought Kirby wanted.
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At the time, though, Kirby kept penciling the Thing the same way – like a scaly/
plate-y” creature, it was just up to his inkers on how they interpreted the look.

Then when Joe Sinnott took over as inker and basically created the modern look for the Thing, Kirby eventually changed the way he pencilled the character to match.

So it wasn't Kirby who switched the look at first, it was his inkers, redrawing his rounded "dinosaur scales" into angular "rock plates," as shown in the images in the linked article. But it was a little while longer before Kirby actually changed the way he drew the character.

Just goes to show how important inkers are to the process.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

I wonder if they had that in mind when the Thing was briefly redesigned/mutated in the 80s. He had some Dinosaur-like characteristics with that new look. Joe Sinnott inked those issues, oddly enough. This was also the era of the "She-Thing"-Sharon Ventura (Mrs. Marvel II) transformed into a Thing as well.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Heck, the orange was probably just the closest they could come to brown using the limited color palette of early comics.

Long before the Thing, comics had no problem coloring anything brown. From skin color, to hamburger buns to dirt, the various tones under the category of brown was possible.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Its going to be a train wreck.

Probably.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I wonder if they had that in mind when the Thing was briefly redesigned/mutated in the 80s. He had some Dinosaur-like characteristics with that new look. Joe Sinnott inked those issues, oddly enough. This was also the era of the "She-Thing"-Sharon Ventura (Mrs. Marvel II) transformed into a Thing as well.

What they did there was make the changes in art part of the story-- basically, they were saying that Ben underwent an initially rough transformation that became more refined over time. His appearance evolved as his body adapted to the change. Then when it happened to Sharon, she went through the same process.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Yeah, there was also a change during the Bryne era from rocky thing to muddy thing as well for a few issues. (Although Stegosaurus/Ankylosaurus Thing appeared in the Steve Englehart/Kevin Pollard/Joe Sinnot issues and in a few Simonsons).

 

[The Old Mixer]

Heck, the orange was probably just the closest they could come to brown using the limited color palette of early comics.

Long before the Thing, comics had no problem coloring anything brown. From skin color, to hamburger buns to dirt, the various tones under the category of brown was possible.

Indeed, in the first issue the Thing's trunks were colored brown. Color reprints tend to retcon them blue, though the blue uniforms wouldn't be established until #3.

 

[Captaindemotion]

http://www.slashfilm.com/fantastic-four-cast-photo-twitter/

Well, that was quick. Filming has ended on this shoot and Kate Mara posted a selfie of herself and the other 3 (not in costume, before you get excited) to mark it.

Other than the purported Thing pic (which I think was real, as other pages reported being asked to take it down), there hasn't been a peep from the makers of this film during the shoot. This could be interpreted as Abrams-like secrecy but, as the link I posted suggests, it's odd, particularly given that comic-con was last week. Given the negative buzz that seems to be circling the movie (I could be wrong but from what I've seen on other sites and pages, the mostly negative response on this thread is fairly representative of a lot of fan attitude, while Marvel are apparently doing little to publicise the FF in the comic world), one would've thought it might've been a good move to release a pic of them in character and maybe silence the critics.

Maybe Fox is holding back its marketing of the film but am I the only one wondering if eyre preparing to let it die?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

If they're done filming, they're clearly not prepared to let it die. It would make no sense. They could at least release the film, protect their rights, and sell it back to Marvel (as opposed to stopping the film, losing their rights, and having it revert back to Marvel free of charge). If I'm lucky enough to find the link I'll post it, but Marvel has flat out denied sabotaging their comics with the hopes of hurting Fox and getting their rights back.

But I agree with your greater point that it's surprising they finished filming so quickly and twice as surprising that they didn't have anything for SDCC if they were that close to finishing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's happened before, it'll happen again.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I could link to the released film with the same quote, though. My point is they're not going to pretend to film a movie. They're either going to film it or not film it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Google can't find pictures of Kate Mara in her invisible girl outfit.

She may have the body of a 9 year old boy, but I like cosplay.

Something wiggy is going on.

Meanwhile can you imagine the new movie's costume designer going into a radical excitation as he, or she finally put their work to rest because they saw the new reboot of the comic (6 months ago) where the new fantastic four costumes were "RED" and black instead of blue and black?

 

[Mr Light]

How the hell did they film an entire movie without a single spy shot?!

I can only assume this was shot entirely on sound stages.

Which doesn't bode well for the realism and scale of the film....

 

[Alidar Jarok]

As of a couple of weeks ago, Kate Mara had not seen a Fantastic Four costume in the film. Now that filming is done, I think it's safe to say there are no uniforms or they appear only at the end. I'm OK with that since the Fantastic Four didn't start with uniforms either.

 

[Captaindemotion]

If they're done filming, they're clearly not prepared to let it die. It would make no sense. They could at least release the film, protect their rights, and sell it back to Marvel (as opposed to stopping the film, losing their rights, and having it revert back to Marvel free of charge). If I'm lucky enough to find the link I'll post it, but Marvel has flat out denied sabotaging their comics with the hopes of hurting Fox and getting their rights back.

But I agree with your greater point that it's surprising they finished filming so quickly and twice as surprising that they didn't have anything for SDCC if they were that close to finishing.

Maybe 'die' was the wrong word. I'm not suggesting that Fox won't release the film. But does it perhaps look like they have no faith in it being a successful franchise and aren't going to waste time and money promoting it?

Maybe they have a strategy re its promotion and are going to play a long game. But considering that we've seen pics from Batman v Superman already or compared to the promotion which some of Fox's X-Men verse films got well in advance, this does seem at best to be an extremely muted promotional strategy.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It can't be worse than Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Bite the ####ing bullet already.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

If they're done filming, they're clearly not prepared to let it die. It would make no sense. They could at least release the film, protect their rights, and sell it back to Marvel (as opposed to stopping the film, losing their rights, and having it revert back to Marvel free of charge). If I'm lucky enough to find the link I'll post it, but Marvel has flat out denied sabotaging their comics with the hopes of hurting Fox and getting their rights back.

But I agree with your greater point that it's surprising they finished filming so quickly and twice as surprising that they didn't have anything for SDCC if they were that close to finishing.

Maybe 'die' was the wrong word. I'm not suggesting that Fox won't release the film. But does it perhaps look like they have no faith in it being a successful franchise and aren't going to waste time and money promoting it?

Don't get me wrong, I get the feeling the movie will feel "small." The fast filming just seems like it doesn't have a wide scope or lots of set pieces and locations.

 

[Aldo]

Is this a thing now? Is there really a theory that Fox has no intentions of releasing the film? Because this is the first time I've ever heard anyone suggest that.