In a recent interview to The
Huffington Post about his new film, Whiplash, actor Miles Teller gave his
opinion on the negative response to his casting as Reed Richards, aka Mr.
Fantastic and director Josh Trank's gritty take on Marvel's first family.
"There are a million blogs
and websites talking about the casting and they hear one little thing, like,
oh, there was rumor it was a found-footage movie, so then there were a million
comments on that." He continued, "If we’re going to be up for
everybody’s public disposal of it, I try not to get too caught up with anything
on the Internet. Out of sight is out of mind for me a lot of the time. I
already know that people hate me for the fact that I’m playing Reed Richards
and that we’re ruining their franchise. It’s tough because when you’re taking
on a franchise that’s already been established, you do kind of owe something to
the characters and to the creator. At the same time, you want to bring it to a
fresh audience. My dad grew up with the "Fantastic Four" comic book
and not a lot of kids did, so you also want to make a movie that they can
enjoy. I will say that this film that we made is not really for little kids, I
don’t think. We do take a more mature approach."
Hold down your horses Mr. Teller.
Not all of the complaints, but the majority of them were directed at Johnny
Storm's sudden ethnic change. Second of all, "ruining their franchise"? No
worries there, some feel that the franchise was ruined with those two previous
films.
Fantastic Four
stars Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Miles Teller as Reed
Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm/Thing, Kate Mara as Sue
Storm/Invisible Woman, Toby Kebbel as Dr. Doom, Tim Blake Nelson as Harvey
Elder/Mole Man and Reg E. Cathey as Dr. Storm.
Source - The Huffington Post
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