Fantastic Four Reboot to Feature 100% CG Ben Grimm
Fri, July 30, 2010 
Goodbye, silly-looking makeup effects and hello, fancy-pants CG/motion-capture work. Thanks, Avatar!
Screen Rant reports 20th Century Fox is headed in that direction for Ben Grimm/The Thing in their planned Fantastic Four Reborn reboot. You can expect to hear "It's clobbering time!" in 100% computer-generated goodness. Once they get going on the property that is. Their spies say not to expect to hear diddily dick for awhile as they’re too busy punching the clock on the fast-tracked (and no doubt, effects-heavy) X-Men: First Class.
Normally, this is where we'd bitch and whine asking, "Why can't they do everything practical nowadays?!" But then the defendant (Fox) would showcase the look of Grimm in the Tim Story-directed FF films as Exhibit A (done via makeup, rubber-suits and the works), and the jury would rule in their favor before seeing any other evidence.
The truth is even by comic-book standards, the Fantastic Four is just so Goddamn silly. It feels like a lost cause to reboot this of all franchises.
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