THE FANTASTIC FOUR First BTS Images Revealed As Josh Trank Talks In-Depth About the Reboot

THE FANTASTIC FOUR First BTS Images Revealed As Josh Trank Talks In-Depth About the Reboot

Featuring Michael B. Jordan in costume as the Human Torch, the first production images for The Fantastic Four have just landed online, along with an extensive interview with director Josh Trank.

By DCMarvelFreshman - Jan 26, 2015 05:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantastic Four
Source: Collider




While there's been secrecy and a lack of promotion for this year's reboot of Marvel's First Family, Collider has exclusively revealed two of the first official production images from The Fantastic Four, as well as an extended interview with director Josh Trank and producer Simon Kinberg. The former filmmaker features in one of the behind-the-scenes images, while the other features the latter on-set alongside actor Michael B. Jordan, aka Johnny Storm, who appears to be suited up in his Human Torch suit. The interview is quite lengthy, but Collider has provided some highlights which include Trank saying that they "consciously decided to not release anything official" until now, the story is essentially "a modern telling of how these four iconic characters came together and came to be," Philip Glass and Marco Beltrami are scoring the film, recent additional photography was nothing major, and "the original shoot was seventy-two days and they were on-schedule and on-budget." Regarding influences on The Fantastic Four, Josh Trank further explains that Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg and his films, Scanners & The Fly, are big influences for the look of the reboot, while there are also "influences of what Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were doing in the 60’s all the way up into the present day," plus "The Ultimates was also an influence and a lot of the science specifics are there." Trank and Kinberg also reveal that they are very influenced by Marvel Studios' shared universe even though "it's tricky to combine X-Men and Fantastic Four because the X-Men films don’t acknowledge the Fantastic Four and The Fantastic Four takes place in the same time period as the modern day X-Men movies." Furthermore, Trank reveals that his first cut of the movie was "around 2 hours and 10 minutes," but the final run time "will probably be between 2 hours and 2 hours and 20 minutes." As for Easter eggs, producer Simon Kinberg teases that "there's a lot in the movie and there's one on the teaser trailer (which will be premiering in three weeks with Kingsman: The Secret Service on February 13) that people can freeze frame and try to find." To read the interview in its entirety, make the jump to Collider. What do you think?

Directed by Josh Trank, The Fantastic Four stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell with Reg E. Cathey, and the film is scheduled for release on August 7, 2015.
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MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 1/26/2015, 5:26 PM
Look cool. Trank sounds like he knows better.

We'll see folks.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/26/2015, 5:30 PM
Hey, Dave posted this first
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/26/2015, 5:30 PM
And I like it

LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/26/2015, 5:30 PM
I can't see shit. It's just all white background.
Lozzy
Lozzy - 1/26/2015, 5:30 PM
This better not be the final suit!!!!!
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 1/26/2015, 5:38 PM
I'm far from being a huge supporter for this film (It SCREAMS failure), but I just read the entire Collider interview and Trank seems like he knows exactly what he's doing.



Mark me excited... Some-what.
Pasto
Pasto - 1/26/2015, 5:40 PM
The design of the costume is nice...

But if that is it's final color.....what. the. flying. [frick].
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 1/26/2015, 5:40 PM
"This isn’t like The Avengers. Even when the first Avengers came out, there were four other movies that people were familiar with. The suits and the tone and the look and the feel. So they could release those things or drop them on Twitter. With Simon on the X-Men movies, there were other movies that came before the last X-Men movie so Bryan [Singer] could feel more confident in tweeting teases of what’s to come. But this movie, we really want the audience to have the proper reaction to this material seeing it for the first time. You’ve really got to put your best foot forward. You can’t just leak an image to strike up a conversation. You want people to see something that has thought behind it. And the teaser should do just that. With conversations online, you can’t really control it. In this day and age people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they’re doing, but not every artist is like that. I’m not really like that. If I was painting a picture I wouldn’t want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I’d rather show people what it looks like when it’s done."

While no one on this site will admit it, he does have a point.
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 1/26/2015, 5:51 PM
Yeah, 0mega. Fully agree. I have a "we'll see" attitude.
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx - 1/26/2015, 5:52 PM
It's already been revealed that his suit is only an "early-on" iteration and that we'll get them in the classic suits by the end of the movie. I have hope, and the interview is promising!
Dessrow
Dessrow - 1/26/2015, 5:53 PM
DaVinci31
DaVinci31 - 1/26/2015, 5:53 PM
I highly doubt that's even the prototype for their suits.

Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 1/26/2015, 5:53 PM
@MrCBM56 I share your sentiments.
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx - 1/26/2015, 5:53 PM
The interview sounds fantastic. I am more pumped for this than ever!
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 1/26/2015, 5:54 PM
There's still this weird feeling I have. We actually have something official from this movie... Wow.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/26/2015, 5:54 PM
I am...impresssed. never doubt trank. He's entrusted with a star wars spinoff. Man knows what he's doing. And he's right: you wanna show the painting when its finished not take pics of the paint strokes and tease it all the time
Effusion
Effusion - 1/26/2015, 5:54 PM
Ok off topic but did anyone know TheBenefactor has just recently created a fan-page on FB, i just found it by accident here's the link

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Benefactor/769314499771808?fref=photo


#BENELIVES
Dessrow
Dessrow - 1/26/2015, 5:55 PM
Pretty sure FF4 gonna be great, bring the damn trailer!
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx - 1/26/2015, 5:55 PM
I agree with pretty much all of you. Color me intrigued.
Bekss
Bekss - 1/26/2015, 5:55 PM
It looks dumb with all those things in there.
Generic as [frick]
themidnightking
themidnightking - 1/26/2015, 5:55 PM
About [frick]ing time!!!!!!
RextheKing
RextheKing - 1/26/2015, 5:56 PM
From what I heard this isn't his final suit, so I'm fine with this, plus it's actually a pretty cool suit.
Jordanstine
Jordanstine - 1/26/2015, 5:56 PM
"Influences of what Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were doing in the 60’s"

Not if Victor Von Domashev has anything to say about it, in his Video Blog!
Bekss
Bekss - 1/26/2015, 5:56 PM
But I can't deny it, that interview gave me a little hope.
Itsbeenfun
Itsbeenfun - 1/26/2015, 5:56 PM
I don't care. I'm hype for this film!

Bring on the trailer!
TucksFrom2015
TucksFrom2015 - 1/26/2015, 5:56 PM
I'm the biggest Fantastic 4 fan ever at the moment
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