Following up on last week’s rundown of rumors surrounding Fox’s reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise, we now can share with you a possibly meaningless short-list of directors the studio is considering/courting!
Coming from ComicBookMovie.com, the list is composed of three directors- David Yates, Joe Carnahan, and James McTeigue.
Yates is the now very high-profile director of the back half of the Harry Potter series, who will be overseeing the release of the two monstrous franchise closers over the next year. Presumably he could pick up FFR next year after Part II of Deathly Hallows, but it seems unlikely he would be able to make the Spring 2011 start date that CBM claims. Also, jumping from the (current) biggest money-making franchise on the planet to rebooting Fantastic Four for Fox seems like a weird move, unless Yates is a big fan of the comics.
Carnahan (A-Team, Smokin’ Aces) and McTeigue (Ninja Assassin, V for Vendetta) both feel like more appropriate and possible choices for Fox to make happen. You’ll also notice they are both directors that come with a bit of an edge- Fantastic Four Reborn has been (very vaguely) reported to be darker/more tonally dramatic (and less origin-focused) than the existing goofy-as-shit films. Carnahan and McTeigue both bring a level of comfort with grit, be it the more melodramatic, comic book violence of McTeigue’s work, or Carnahan’s more tongue-in-cheek mayhem.
With whispers of actress casting reports, a fully CGI Thing (duh) voiced by Kiefer Sutherland or Bruce Willis, a Doctor Doom played by Stephen Moyer from True Blood, and a team led by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers or Adrien Brody, there is more than enough unsubstantiated bullshit to get fans of the franchise talking. Some of this stuff will no doubt shake out as true, but we’re still several official announcements away from really having an idea what shape this reboot will take.
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Fantastic? Talking about fantastic – let's talk fantastic fun! Which is what Piranha 3D is. I know it has nothing to do with this article but I'm so pissed that it hasn't done better at the US box office.
Who should voice The Thing? Alan King.
Who cares about Piranha 3D. This is a Fantastic 4 article. sheesh. Anyways, I don't like the idea of any of these directors, but if I had to pick one, I'd pick McTeague. V for Vendetta was and is a great little overlooked gem. Ninja Assassin was okay, and the less said about Carnahan, the better. After the one two punch of Narc and Smokin Aces, he really laid a turd with A-Team. Besides, Carnahan's take on the comic would be dark and grimy and realistic. I don't want that vision of Fantastic 4 and hey I like the goofy-as-sh*t movies thank you very much. Fantastic 4 is meant to be bright and colorful and cartoony, that's what makes the comic fun and fresh. Don't mess with it. It doesnt need to look like Batman. Irritating verification attempts: 3
The Thing voiced by Kiefer Sutherland? hah agoing all Jack Bauer on Doom — thank you, no.
Please, no Doctor Doom. I want huge weird Stan and Jack sci-fi concepts galore, not a guy in a bathrobe and halloween mask screaming about that meddling imbecile Richards. The Inhumans? The Negative Zone? Annihilus, Aron The Rogue Watcher, Basilisk, Beyonder, Blastaar, Crucible, Darkoth, Diablo, Dragon Man, Ego the Living Planet, Elspeth Cromwell, Fasaud, Hate-Monger, Hyperstorm, Impossible Man, Invincible Man, Klaw, Mad Thinker, Maximus, Mephisto, Modulus, Molecule Man, Mole Man, Morgan Le Fey, Occulus,
Onslaught, Over-Mind, Paibok, Psycho-Man, Puppet Master, Quasimodo, Rama-Tut, Ronan the Accuser, Skrulls, Sphinx I,
Super-Skrull, Terminus, Terrax, Torgo, Tyrak the Terrible, Xemu, hell, even the Awsome Android! Enough with the Doom already!
Oh, and JediBobster? Eat a bowl of fuck. (Who posted that guy?!?!)
The big wizard fight at the end of Order of the Phoenix is still a better superhero battle than any superhero movie has managed
The Skrulls get my vote.
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