Collider recently sat down with director Josh Trank,
and writer/producer Simon Kinberg to talk about the upcoming reboot of the
Fantastic Four, it's tone, spirit, casting, and much, much more.
Fans and press have speculated that the lack of official
images, posters, or any other promotional content is due to the endless rumors
that the film is a mess and that the studio isn't happy with how it turned out
to be. Trank's rebuttals those arguments by saying that it was a conscious
decision to withheld anything official because the film isn't like The
Avengers, which by the time it got out people already knew the characters, and their
"suits and the tone and the look and the
feel. So they could release those things or drop them on Twitter."
Trank's added that for this film they "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."
The question
of whether there are too many superhero movies in theaters is one that
occasionally pops-up, but Trank's believes that in his film the one thing that
will set it apart from the rest is the science fiction, adding that he
"always viewed Fantastic Four and the kind of weirdness that happens to
these characters and how they’re transformed to really fall in line more with a
Cronenberg-ian science fiction tale of something horrible happening to your
body and [it] transforming out of control."
Trank's also revealed that the film
is probably more of a "science-fiction, or horror, or even drama",
then just a superhero movie.
Simon Kinberg also offered some
details and revealed what we already knew, that the film is inspired by the
Ultimate run of the Fantastic Four, however Trank's adds that "there’s a big difference between adapting the tone of
something or adapting the spirit. In this case we’re adapting the spirit
of the characters as they stem all the way back to the original characters in
the 60’s. These characters are iconic archetypes that are as timeless and
flexible as you could ever hope for in terms of modernizing and updating a
story. If you look at Shakespeare’s works, these are all stories that can
be modernized because you’re dealing with archetypes."
Anyway, below are the official behind-the-scenes
images featuring Trank, Kinberg and Michael B. Jordan in costume, which
according to the rumor/spoiler
will be the first iteration before they jump into the more recognizable ones.
Opening on August 7 2015, Fantastic Four stars
Kate Mara as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Miles Teller as Reed Richards/Mr.
Fantastic, Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny
Storm/The Human Torch, Toby Kebbell as Victor Domashev/Dr. Doom, Reg E. Carthey
as Dr. Franklin Storm, and Tim Blake Nelson as Harvey Elder/Mole Man.
What do you think?
Source - Collider
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