Between rumours of problems behind the scenes and the fact that the majority of fans would be much happier seeing the Fantastic Four back at Marvel Studios, the upcoming reboot has a lot stacked against it. While the footage in the trailers has certainly impressed, it's clearly taking a lot of liberties with the source material. However, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Josh Trank promised that fans will see an epic battle between Reed Richards (Miles Teller), Sue Storm (Kate Mara), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell), and Victor Domashev (Toby Kebbell). "Chronicle was all about the discovery and evolution of those powers," the director explains to the site. "This is like, ‘What if it’s a couple years later and it sucks?’ The audience should expect an epic, massive, huge, multipower slugfest. This movie is big. A lot of stakes."
Hopefully that battle won't be too similar to the one between the team and Doom in the original Fantastic Four movie. After all, this reboot does on the surface appear to share at least some similarities with that (Victor becoming Doom alongside the Fantastic Four for example). Regardless, it's this sort of scepticism and worries which writer and producer Simon Kinberg is all too well aware of. "I get the scepticism going into it because the previous movies weren’t very good. It’s a very hard title to crack." Here's hoping they've got it right! What do you think about all this?
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