THE FANTASTIC FOUR Star Paul Walter Hauser Explains Why He Was Initially Reluctant To Join The Reboot

@kirbyfan - I don't think that guy will make the jump to the MCU proper at the end of the movie. Pretty sure he is a representation of past iterations and will be dispatched accordingly

@kirbyfan -
-NO ONE asked for H.E.R.B.I.E. considering the character only exists because they couldn't use Human Torch in the 1978 cartoon.
-NO ONE asked for Shalla-Bal to be the Silver Surfer
-NO ONE asked for Pedro Pascal to play Reed
-NO ONE asked for Galactus to appear in the first film.

Hopefully, it turns out great, but these bizarre creative decisions have greatly reduced my interest.

@UncleHarm1 - Touche, but I was speaking about the fanbase and GA who actually keep these franchises afloat with their dollars. The producers with the bad ideas are the ones who kill franchises, not the "toxic" fans.

@soberchimera - And yet NONE OF THAT is remotely true, crybaby dunce.

Now back you go to your scary-dumb troll echo chamber.

@soberchimera -

- HERBIE has been in several modern-day massively beloved Fantastic 4 comics by acclaimed writers. You're laughably/cluelessly acting like they included him because they're making a live action version of a goofy Hanna-Barbera cartoon, which they're not.

- People like you endlessly cry about "remaking the same old crap over and over again!" yet when they announce they're not copy/pasting the exact same Silver Surfer from the 2007 movie yet again you cluelessly cry "forced woke feminism!".

- Considering Pedro Pascal is objectively one of the single most popular actors in the world right now.....yeah, i'd say alot of people asked for him actually. And considering most of the cryfest responses to his casting has been "he's in too many things already!" all that does is prove the point even further.

- Sure lets not do Galactus in the "first" movie even though they've already done *four* F4 movies and the most we've ever got of Galactus is a silhouette made of clouds. Let's instead wait for a sequel that might not even happen for X amount of reasons for god knows how many more years. Logic make sense as always!

Getting it yet?

You're welcome ;- )

@soberchimera -

- A laughably simple google image search of "fantastic four comics herbie" will prove that he's been in several modern-day F4 comics, plus I couldn't give the slightest toss which comic book writer you have a nerd hate-boner for. And completely regardless of all of that, you're literally complaining about the inclusion of a character in a movie you haven't seen yet/know factually less than nothing about. So much intelligent logic and basic common sense on display there. "FFS can you believe Korg the rock monster is going to be a goofy comic relief character in the Thor movie/that they're making a marvel movie where a TREE and a TALING RACCOON are the main characters??? LOL so many kiddy humor fails incoming!". Yes, let's definitely listen to you about how objectively terrible Herbie the robot's inclusion is going to be in a movie you've seen less than nothing of.

- Gee, it's almost as if the MCU Fantastic Four movie has confirmed to be taking place on an *alternate earth* where that female character became the silver surfer instead. But that's still ridiculous and illogical because it never happened in the comics (oh wait it did), and it's not like there's already a decades-long precedent both in comics and the MCU for female characters taking on the superhero mantle from male characters they're closely associated with. Oh hi "What If...."/Captain America/Black Panther etc etc etc. And most importantly, it's deeeeeefinitely not at all remotely likely that once this new F4 team merge onto the main MCU earth after Secret Wars that there'll be new Fantastic Four movies where (big spoilers) NORIN RADD became the Silver Surfer. Nah, lets incoherently rage-fart years before any of that gets to play out and instead beyond intelligently default to "dem dere MAN-HATING FEMINISTS came an TOOK OUR JOBS!!!!".

- Remind me again when you became a professional casting director for the biggest film franchise in the world and logically concluded that Pedro Pascal was an objectively terrible choice for the role of Reed Richards? His current popularity may have been what got him on their radar, but they wouldn't have handed him the role even if his audition sucked ass. Fan casting is worthless, "the internet" wanted Paul Bettany to play the Joker in The Dark Knight instead of "that talentless pretty-boy from the gay cowboy movie!", i'll take Chris Nolans opinion thanks. And if you genuinely believe there wouldn't be a hundred times more criticism if either of your fan-casting choices were picked then that says it all right there.

- Doctor Doom is factually/objectively/inarguably the Fantastic Four's biggest villain. Just because Galactus is literally larger in size or because it's more "cosmic" doesn't make him a more iconic villain, nor does it mean they need to spend 12 and a half MCU post credit scenes teasing him before he actually shows up. P.S. Kang's "lukewarm response" has literally nothing to do with the character itself and everything to do with the MCU being in a far less relevant state in pop culture since they blew their load with Endgame combined with the majority of movies they've made since then not being "must-see" to general audiences with a handful of exceptions like a three way Spider-Man crossover. P.P.S. they could've easily built up Ultron as the Endgame big-bad instead of Thanos if they wanted to. He's a major villain in the comics, plus regardless of that, it's all in the execution of the storytelling.

Game Over.

@TheVisionary25 - Sadly easy to since they took the episode down.

@JayTwelve - thats a pretty big reaction for such a basic take.

Is there some projecting I'm sensing?

@Inktown03 - or just didnt want to be tied down to a franchise for years. It may be secure but it does close a lot of doors due to scheduling

@WhateverItTakes - hey, FYI, I don't know why this spilled over into this thread, but if you wanna know the conclusion he blocked me 🤣

@JayTwelve - no, you're projecting that you're a triggered need. And this is just further confirmation to that fact 🤣

@Origame - Looks like @JayTwelve has vanished from existence.