The Fantastic Four Reboot is a "Coming of Age Story" and "More Real and Gritty"

Recently there is a trend amongst comic books filmmakers that is to make their movies serious, dark, dramatic, and I blame Christopher Nolan for that. This kind of strategy worked for Nolan’s Batman and kind of worked for Man of Steel, but it is not supposed to be applied to every single superhero movie. Now the Fantastic Four reboot are doing it.

There were rumors that the script and production of the new Fantastic Four has been scrapped, totally destroyed to start a new project. Either this did not happen, or the new project is even worse. There are unfortunately no confirmations of changing cast, so we expect to see the old bunch of retards that have nothing in common with the Fantastic Four. And they will be taking part in a “coming of age story”, as Simon Kinberg, the producer stated in an interview with IGN.

The movie will be “an origin story”, which is pretty self-explanatory since we are dealing with a freaking reboot. It follows them before they “really know what a superhero is”, which is cool, again like pretty much any origin story. The characters will be “older than high school, but they are not quite grown into the world”, which means we are probably dealing with college student. So are we expecting keg parties and frats? A new Project X movie with superheroes? Probably not. Kinberg does not say that they are getting their powers from space, but they are getting their powers from “from some sort of scientific travel”. What the fuck? What does this mean? Probably involves inter dimensional portals like in some of the comic books. Scientific travel… bullshit. Also “by the end of the movie we don’t call them the Fantastic Four”- interesting, since I thought that the movie is called the Fantastic Four. “They’re not celebrity superheroes, the tone is much more grounded, real and gritty. More in the direction of Chronicle”- Chronicle was not that good. It did OK, but just OK. Do you want your movie to be just OK? Anyway, Victor von Doom is set to be in that movie, and please do not mess him up, he is one of the most amazing Marvel villains ever.

So from what I’ve learned from the interview, expect a hipster Fantastic Four reboot. You have most certainly caught my angry tone here, but I can’t help it. The whole idea of the movie sounds ridiculous. Anyway, as I said the cast has not changed, which is ridiculous. So we have Miles Teller as Reed Richards which is stupid, Kate Mara as Sue Storm which I actually find OK, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm which I have no idea how is that going to work, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, the Thing, which is really stupid.

The movie is set to be released June 19^th 2015, and I am telling you, I will watch it, but I do not promise I will watch it in cinemas. I am not happy with the current development, but I hope something changes or however stupid I find this script, that it actually works out and that I am very wrong. Fingers crossed.