[Review] Fantastic Four

The name Fantastic Four suggests a certain joie de vivre, a delight in its own comic book silliness. When Marvel’s first family were translated to the big screen by Tim Story in 2005, and again for a 2007 sequel, that lightness of touch unfortunately slipped into kitschy smugness, with the excessive focus on camp humour […]

Fantastic Four Flex Their Powers in Final Trailer

[youtube id=”AAgnQdiZFsQ”] While San Diego Comic Con 2015 was a huge hit for superhero films, Fantastic Four unfortunately got buried beneath the hype surrounding Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad. After all, it’s hard to build more excitement for a film with no new information and scheduled for a release less than a month away. Nevertheless, […]

[Teaser Trailer] Fantastic Four

[youtube id=”e-BVs-KCSiA”] After months of little to no information on the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four, the seal was broken yesterday when director Josh Trank divulged the first concrete information about the film in an exclusive interview with Collider. Today, the first footage of the film was released, hushing any doubters of the film that […]

X-Men, Fantastic Four Film Crossover Won’t Happen Anytime Soon

Marvel set the blueprint for unified film universes with Iron Man. Since then, they’ve made billions at the box office with every subsequent Marvel-related film tying into an overarching narrative. Some of the groundwork for The Avengers was placed in Iron Man, for example. Keeping to a cohesive narrative structure is something that involves tons of planning and […]

Toby Kebbell Cast as Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four Reboot

Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot is finally settling into form. Following the official casting of Michael B. Jordan (That Awkward Moment) as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Kate Mara (Transcendence) as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Jamie Bell (Nymphomaniac) as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, it’s being reported that Toby Kebbell (Dawn […]

Shortlist of actors for Fantastic Four reboot leaked

Rewrites to the Fantastic Four reboot may have stalled production a bit, but that hasn’t stopped Fox execs from listing their actor preferences. The shortlist of actors Fox is considering for the film has leaked, and it features some very notable names. As has been unofficially confirmed for quite some time, Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is […]