FF Reboot Casting Rumors
Mon, August 30, 2010 
Unfortunately, FF doesn't stand for Full Frontal or Freshly Fucked, although the latter may still be used to describe Fox's relaunch of its film version of Marvel's Fantastic Four.
It wasn't that long ago, 2005 to be exact, that we got the campy release of Fox's first attempt at turning the Stan Lee created super team of Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) into the next big comic book movie. it didn't quite work out the way they expected, and I still don't know how Jessica Alba stripping down and going invisible on the bridge helped Mr. Fantastic and The Human Torch get by everyone. I'm literally rolling my eyes right now. Up and slightly to the right while access the memory banks of how Alba looked just before going invisible. Anyway, that crapfest surely didn't warrant the equally awful sequel that plagued the screens just two years later. But now, Fox is going for the hat trick and creating a third Fantastic Four film within a decade. Their hopes and dreams of a mega-hit rest on the fact that they're going to use a completely new cast and crew, much like Sony is doing with the Spiderman franchise.
At this point, I don't want to add too much validity to this, because, as the title states, these are just rumors right now, but COMIC BOOK MOVIE, you know, THAT website, where opposable thumbs aren't a prerequisite to post articles, reports that the studio may be going after big names like Bruce Willis and Kiefer Sutherland to star as the movies new THING. They would only have screen time in the first segment of the movie as Ben Grimm, and then step aside for the all CGI THING and doing only the voice over.
It seems strange to me that the one character that would get the least screen time would be the biggest hollywood name in the cast.
It was said a few weeks ago that Adrian Brody (Hollywoodland) may be tapped to play Reed Richards in the reboot, opposite Vampire Bill himself, Stephen Moyer (True Blood), who Fox has reportedly sent an offer to play Doctor Victor Von Doom. I'm a fan of True Blood, but I have to say, its not because of Moyer's acting. Maybe its the character, but his delivery has been really the only thing I've ever mentioned about that show in the ways of a complaint. In all fairness, though, I've never seen him in anything else. Alice Eve and Kevin Pennington have also been suggested to be the frontrunner for Sue and Johnny Storm respectively.
So, if any of this holds true, and I tend to lean more toward the more cheaply priced, young actors, I'm going to have to call bullshit on the Willis and Sutherland rumors. I just don't see them tossing the cash for a voice, when they're cutting corners on the rest of the main roles.
Personally, I don't think it matters if you have Robert Redford in his prime acting opposite Glenn Close. No talent is going to be able to keep a sinking ship of this magnitude afloat. Fox is "polishing brass on the Titanic. Its all going down, man. "
Reader Comments (3)
some interesting choices. i hope they do pick a good cast and crew this time. though i am sure fox will still screw it up somewhere. wished they lost rights back to marvel/disney.
Fantasic Four isn't a strong series to work with and if you don't have Christian Bell in your super hero flicks these days they just don't do that well.
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