I'm one of the few (many) people that think that the downfall of Fantastic 4 was due to it's director, Josh Trank, as well as the board at 20th Century Fox that caved into this idiot's ideas for the film. But hey, he's a genius, right? What could possibly go wrong?
I was reading an article on comicbook.com that talked about the direction that the writer from Trank's breakout film, Chronicle, had wanted to take the Fantastic Four. His name is Max Landis, and I really wish that what he had in mind would've been the film that they had made. This is what he had to say on his own idea for the movie, and then you can tell me your thoughts in the comments section below:
“My Fantastic Four was an on-the-run movie. It begins with their origin, which is an illegal Branson-esque space launch where they want to go see this thing. They become the biggest celebrities in the world, except then they wreck and they get these horrible powers. The government is hunting them and they split up, and you really get into the dynamics of these people as they’re learning to control their powers. So the origin takes place in the first two minutes and then you learn it’s a character movie. Avengers had just come out, and I wanted to present Fox’s superhero team so that any one of them could beat all of the Avengers, and any one of them could be the villain of an Avengers movie. Reed Richards is indestructible. Sue Storm can control light. Johnny Storm can burn hotter than the sun. The Thing is impossibly strong, and you can’t hurt him no matter what you do. I thought, what a cool idea, that these four friends have accidentally become gods. I had Doctor Doom as a good guy, one of Reed’s college friends, and my whole movie he’s trying to find and help them but it wasn’t clear if he was good or bad—until the finale of the movie when you realize his connection to Reed, and that they’re best friends. The audience who knows Doctor Doom thinks he’s going to turn bad, but the movie ends with him saving them. And in the sequel he’s probably good, too. You know, you Sam Raimi-Spider-Man it—at the end of the sequel he gets all ***ed up and shows up in the Doctor Doom armor. But then in the third movie he’s like, ‘What have you done to me?’”
Just by itself it sounds like a movie that I would want to go see. It's compelling, it follows each individual character as they come to grips with what's happened to them, they're all kind of like Bonnie and Clyde where the world sees them as heroes even though the government is after them. I also like the idea that they all split up and have to deal with their new super powers individually. Makes for a more compelling story and forces the characters to accept what's happened to them under their own terms, not through someone else's pushing them towards it. But what do I know, right? I'm just a fan.
It would seem that Marvel isn't a fan of the Fantastic Four, though. Not any more, anyways. Not only did they cancel the comic book of Marvel's First Family, but now their headquarters...or former headquarters, has been bought by Peter Parker in the new Marvel Universe. Parker Industries now calls it home. So what do the former foursome think of his moving in? The Human Torch (who now runs with the Inhumans) seems to be a little ticked, The Thing is off with the Gaurdians of the Galaxy, so he's no where around, and Reed and Sue Richards have gone AWOL from the comics all together. I guess if Marvel can't own the movie rights to something, then they'll just make the brand Kryptonite so that nobody wants to touch it. Sorry, Kryptonite is DC...what's the Marvel equivalent to it? Oh yeah! The Fantastic Four!
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