Despite his best efforts, Silver Surfer couldn't manage to kill off this franchise entirely.
Hey, you remember that
Fantastic Four movie that was nominally OK, which then got followed up by
Rise of the Silver Surfer, a movie famous for the nerdrage it engendered by changing Galactus into a giant cloud? You remember how it came out less than three years ago and didn't do really well at the box office? Well, guess what: Fox is already preparing to reboot it, and AICN
is reporting that there's already a potential title in the works:
Fantastic Four Reborn. No plot details at this point, but hey, it already reminds me of Rob Liefeld's awful
Heroes Reborn and
Onslaught Reborn comics, which...makes me sad. But hey, now that
Chris Evans is
Captain America, I guess they need to recast the whole thing and make them all teenagers and have them fight the
Mole Man or something.
Also in the news is that a new
Die Hard might be in the cards, tentatively titled
Die Hard 24/7. That sounds like a movie that ought to be sponsored by a cell phone company or something. "John McClane's never out of contact thanks to the new Microsoft Kin, whether he's at play...or work!" Cut to terrorist getting a text message, checking it, reading "YIPPEE KAY YAY MOTHER*******", and McClane shooting him in the back of the head while he's distracted. Just make it R-rated and I'll be there, ok?
Wanted: New Ideas- URGENT
one word. - Ultimate
Justin Bieber is Johnny Storm.
Actually it would be great if they could do a proper Dr. Doom considering he's the best comic book villain ever created and everything, but after that whiny, simpering, lovesick CEO Dr. Doom I suppose attempting to do a decent film with him involved might make folks a tad gun shy.
I just want Marvel Studios to get the rights. I wish when they were bought by Disney they hadn’t allowed Fox to keep the rights until they stop making movies, because we’re just going to get crappy reboot after crappy reboot. Same goes for X-Men, and Spider-man with Sony.
I'm not against scrapping the old cast, although I do think they are revisiting the FF franchise a little too soon.
A very good point. Makes me wonder if these purported reboots involving Spider-Man by Sony, and now the Fantastic Four are all geared towards making Marvel/Disney cringe so they will lay the $ down to obtain those rights back.
Then again, I could be dreaming a nerdtastic dream. *sigh*
Does that mean no Jessica Alba as Sue Storm?
As for the Fantastic Four, I can see it. First things first, create a good and menacing Dr. Doom. The first two movies were "bleh" to "meh", however where they really failed was in their villains. That needs to be fixed first because a hero is only as good as the villain who opposes them. Returning to Die Hard, look at Alan Rickman vs whoever was the guy in DH4.