January Jones as Sue Storm
Some Fantastic Four Reboot news
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^ If you are going that route, how about her tv husband, Jon Hamm, for Reed? Then you could get Ryan Kwanten as Johnny. I am not sure who should play Thing though. I can't think of anyone tall and bulky enough who could pull it off.
As for Doom, he would need to be someone charming, charismatic but capable of being dark and lethal. Someone like Alan Rickman but younger.
As for Doom, he would need to be someone charming, charismatic but capable of being dark and lethal. Someone like Alan Rickman but younger.
If they did go with an older Reed, how about Hugh Laurie? Or would that be weird seeing him all elongated via cgi?
Jeremy Irons would've been the dream casting years ago.
^ I think that Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans were the only good things about the previous films. But if I they won't bring back Michael (and they won't) than Ray Stevenson could work. He has the right look.
And Jeremy Irons would have been perfect.
And Jeremy Irons would have been perfect.
^ Okay. Was that really necessary to post?
I vote that this project falls through so the rights can revert to Marvel.
I have a feeling that the FF rights would be expensive to purchase.
I don't see the humor part of Ben Grimm/The Thing in Stevenson.
However, I never had much issue with those playing the 4, other than Ian & Jessica had no chemistry. IMO the real problem with the FF movies was Dr. Doom. Tim Story did to Doom what Donner did too Lex Luthor, They both drastically toned them down to the point they were laughable threats. In the comics they're both the Moriarty's of the DC & Marvel Universes, yet in the films they were powerful men with no power. They both got reduced to nothing but con artists.
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I found him witty in Rome...I think he'd be a good Ben.
After seeing how Kevin Feige runs things, I'm actually glad that every property isn't under the Marvel umbrella now.
Not sure how new it is. Old guys have been dating and marrying younger women forever. Ceasar and Cleopatra. Mary and Joseph. Hearst and Davies. Sinatra and Farrow...
I figure Sue is a about 10 years younger than Reed ( 15 at the most) Making her anywhere from 25 to 30 when they got their powers.
Unless they go the ultimate route and have them be roughly the same age. I don't have a problem with either or as long as we get a good movie this time around.
I just found this...apparently Fox has this set to come out in Summer 2012 because you know EVERY MOVIE KNOWN to man must come out before the end of the world on December 21, 2012
http://www.examiner.com/science-fic...for-summer-2012-out-with-the-old-with-the-new
I just found this...apparently Fox has this set to come out in Summer 2012 because you know EVERY MOVIE KNOWN to man must come out before the end of the world on December 21, 2012
http://www.examiner.com/science-fic...for-summer-2012-out-with-the-old-with-the-new
Okay, first of all, I know the skill of the actor playing the part is more important than how they look, but it's an unnecessary negative distraction if they don't look the part. Out of all the actors that could be chosen to play Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the ones who resembles him the least, but he was still perfectly cast. However, Hughes was such a strong, eccentric personality that there were very few people who could play him well. The Fantastic Four, on the other hand, are much less complex characters, as far as I can tell.
To be honest, I don't know that much about the Fantastic Four, but I don't think it's unfair to say they're generally rather simple characters personality-wise, so it shouldn't be THAT hard to find someone who resembles each character that would also be the right choice to play it. Also (again my knowledge is limited, so correct me if I'm wrong), but isn't Dr. Doom's backstory in the comics somewhat similar to Destro or the version of The Joker that fell in the acid and was therefore permanently scarred? If that's the case, the face of the actor playing him shouldn't really matter, since his silver face wouldn't be a mask that he takes off. What's more important would be the actor's physical presence - his body language, movements, and voice.
To be honest, I don't know that much about the Fantastic Four, but I don't think it's unfair to say they're generally rather simple characters personality-wise, so it shouldn't be THAT hard to find someone who resembles each character that would also be the right choice to play it. Also (again my knowledge is limited, so correct me if I'm wrong), but isn't Dr. Doom's backstory in the comics somewhat similar to Destro or the version of The Joker that fell in the acid and was therefore permanently scarred? If that's the case, the face of the actor playing him shouldn't really matter, since his silver face wouldn't be a mask that he takes off. What's more important would be the actor's physical presence - his body language, movements, and voice.
Yeah, Stevenson was quite funny at times in Rome and he also can do the sadness aspect of the character.
To be honest though, I never really had a problem with any of the casting in the originals. I even liked McMahon as Doom. It's what they did with the characters themselves that I didn't like. As you say, he was sort of dumbed down and really didn't do anything. At the end, when he did gain some power, the 4 stopped him so quickly that I thought "That's it?" That confrontation felt like something that should have happened earlier in the film.
By the way, I agree with you about Luthor as well. One of the greatest villains ever and still not treated right on the big screen. That's my biggest disappointment with Superman Returns. When I heard Spacey was being cast I thought he would finally be done right and instead we got more of the same. Smallville, for all of its faults, probably has (or had) the best on-screen Luthor.