Trank's "Fantastic Four" Originally Featured A Different Classic Villain

[CBR News]

The original screenplay for last year's "Fantastic Four" flop featured an additional big name baddie besides Doom.


Full article here.

[Cel]

I'd trade any future Fantastic Four movie for the return of the Fantastic Four book.

[GDC3]

I'd trade any future Fantastic Four movie for the return of the Fantastic Four book.

Yes. Seconded.

[simbob4000]

I'd trade any future Fantastic Four movie for the return of the Fantastic Four book.

Nobody's stopping Marvel.

[eckesg1]

Here's how bad Trank's Fantastic 4 was. It bombed. IN this era of movies, it bombed

[solletaire]

Oh, just let it go... Let Kevin Feige and compony work their magic on the franchise. Because at this point you futzed it up to such a degree that none wants to go near that IP with a stick... Thanks a bunch, FOX!

EDIT: I mean the only reason why FOX is not running around in panic over their superhero properties is thanks to Deadpool and its incredible financial success and immense popularity. Shame the X-Men are stuck in their creative limbo, too.

[Rene Narciso]

Fantastic Four should be about grand-scale adventure with a side dish of family comedy-drama. So simple, but apparently so impossible for Fox to make it right. No, it's not a pure comedy sitcom with superheroes. No, it's not a body horror tragedy. It might have a bit of comedy and a bit of tragedy, but the large-scale adventuring should take center stage.

[kalorama]

Using Doom as the main villain of the franchise's first film is a mistake. It was a mistake when Tim Story did it and it was a mistake when Trank did it. The conflict between Doom and Reed is so intensely personal that it shrinks the scope of the film. The lead off villain should be a big, world-threatening danger that gives the FF a chance to establish themselves, publicly, as protectors of the world.

[MoonDog]

I thought FF couldn't have been worse. I stand corrected.

[ospfwildcard]

Fantastic Four should be about grand-scale adventure with a side dish of family comedy-drama. So simple, but apparently so impossible for Fox to make it right. No, it's not a pure comedy sitcom with superheroes. No, it's not a body horror tragedy. It might have a bit of comedy and a bit of tragedy, but the large-scale adventuring should take center stage.

Regardless of the pittfalls of the firat f4 film it did a great job in the family clashes. It was colorful and a fun film.

[Rene Narciso]

Regardless of the pittfalls of the firat f4 film it did a great job in the family clashes. It was colorful and a fun film.

Yes, it was colorful and fun. The problem was that the movie was too "small", so the comedy element sort of overwhelmed it. It was what I would expect from an Ant-Man movie, and even the actual Ant-Man movie had more action and intensity than FF.

[lolgaxe]

Using Doom as the main villain of the franchise's first film is a mistake.

Having a director that wanted to film a completely different movie was the first mistake.

[Deadxman]

Nobody's stopping Marvel.

Yes there is. His name is Isaac Perlmutter.

[Deadxman]

Regardless of the pittfalls of the firat f4 film it did a great job in the family clashes. It was colorful and a fun film.

.....................did we see the same film?

[Rene Narciso]

Using Doom as the main villain of the franchise's first film is a mistake. It was a mistake when Tim Story did it and it was a mistake when Trank did it. The conflict between Doom and Reed is so intensely personal that it shrinks the scope of the film. The lead off villain should be a big, world-threatening danger that gives the FF a chance to establish themselves, publicly, as protectors of the world.

I agree.

And I think it's a mistake to devote a lot of time to the FF origin. Their origin is more of a "let's get it out of the way" origin that does not even take the whole of their first issue. In a movie, it should be a flashback. The FF movie should have a world with aliens, lost kingdoms, magic, monsters, imaginary countries, right out of the gate. The closest I've seen in a live action was the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

I'd even take a page of the X-Men movies and set it in the actual 1960s.