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New Fantastic Four Trailer Has a Lot of Stuff!
Desperate to join the party, a new trailer for the Fantastic Four movie hit the Internet today. I don’t see why they couldn’t wait until the hype died down from the Ant-Man, Star Wars and Batman v. Superman trailers, but let’s keep this party going!
I don’t know how I feel about this new trailer. I don’t know if I’m suffering from trailer overload or what, but I’m just…underwhelmed. Sometimes I forget that this movie is even coming out this Summer. I dunno. The new trailer shows off a lot of action, a lot of powers, a lot of neat character moments; it’s got everything a good trailer should have. But I just don’t really care.
I mean, I’ll definitely go see it. But Fantastic Four is definitely the forgotten son of the summer.
Here’s a cool movie poster that illicits the exact same reaction from me. The characters sure do look neat, right? I think the AVClub’s detached apathy explains things pretty well.
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I’m Only One Man, I Can Only Handle So Many Character Reveals
Yesterday saw the debut of the red Daredevil costume for the new Netflix series (which premiers today!). I saw the costume, loved it, and wrote a blog post about it. But then the various companies in charge of our live action superheroes went insane. There were no less than five superhero reveals, including Daredevil, and all of them are pretty neat. Are you ready to just smash our way through all of them? Let’s just go nuts!
Thing
Yellow Jacket
Archangel
Vision
I wonder how many more we’ll get today. This is the week that keeps on giving.
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Behold the First Teaser Trailer for the New Fantastic 4!
Usually movies have to wait for a sequel before they start replacing letters with numbers, but the new Fantastic 4 movie doesn’t have time to waste. So behold, the first teaser trailer for Fant4stic!
I know fandom is prepared to hate this movie, and I’d like to think I’m going to approach this with open eyes, but the trailer doesn’t do much for me yet. The movie looks slick, that’s for sure, but this trailer is a little too moody for my tastes right now. It doesn’t say ‘get excited for the new Fantastic 4 movie’, it says ‘there’s going to be a new Fantastic 4 movie, and here’s a glimpse of what it looks like’. Though I do like the angle that this is a sci-fi movie with a Fantastic 4 twist. And how there is zero attempt to connect to the previous films.
I guess FOX is just hoping that nobody cares enough to remember those other films, and that they’ll embrace this brand new attempt instead.
I’ll definitely go see the movie, and heck, maybe it will even be good, but it has an uphill battle ahead of it this year. Once Age of Ultron hits theaters, nobody is going to care about Fant4stic.
Jeez. It pains me to type that. At any rate, the movie comes out on Aug. 7.
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Fantastic Foul: Why I Believe the F4 Comic Controversy
If you haven’t heard, the latest rumor circulating the comic book blogosphere is that Marvel plans to put their Fantastic Four comics on hiatus while FOX Studios limps into making their new Fantastic Four reboot. The idea is that Marvel and Disney executives don’t want to give the rival studio any help whatsoever in building a new franchise off of one of Marvel’s properties. The website Bleeding Cool kicked off the rumor mill last week, claiming inside sources at Marvel gave them the tip, and citing evidence from sketch card artists who had been told to steer clear of any F4 related characters.
Marvel Big Wig Editor Tom Brevoort has so far been the only Marvel guy to respond to the controversy, giving it a firm denial.
But here’s the thing: I totally believe Bleeding Cool’s story. I don’t have any special insight, I don’t know any more than anybody else about this whole shebang, I just really think it’s possible that some Marvel/Disney executive might be petty enough to cut off the company’s nose to spite its face.
Executives are the true super-villains
I know I’m just another Internet idiot with a blog, and you’ve got no reason to believe anything I say. But this is turning out to be a pretty big deal, and I figured I had some time to spare to write up my own thoughts. A lot of people seem to be siding against Bleeding Cool and their scoop, and that’s fine. Everybody’s free to their opinion.
But I think Bleeding Cool might be on to something here.
Join me after the jump to find out why. And please feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments!
Actor Tim Blake Nelson is a Dirty, Rotten Traitor!
I mean that in the nicest way possible, with the utmost respect for this delightful actor. But what the heck, Tim Blake Nelson? Does loyalty mean nothing to you?
I am, of course, talking about the news that Tim Blake Nelson has been cast as the Mole Man in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Technically he’s been cast as scientist Harvey Elder, with the implication that he’ll become the Mole Man in one of the sequels, because that has worked out so well in the past.
This time it’ll work for sure!
But Tim Blake Nelson has been in this exact scenario before! Nelson was cast as scientist Samuel Sterns in The Incredible Hulk in 2008, with the implication that he’d transform into the villainous Leader in one of the sequels. Heck, they even started transforming Nelson in the climax of that film.
Remember this scene?
Like it was yesterday
Obviously the Incredible Hulk sequel never came to pass and Nelson never got to play the super-villain. Is that his motivation here? Was he sad that Marvel never came through for him, so like a jilted lover, he’s jumped ship to join FOX and their Fantastic Four reboot? Which one of these companies is the trail-blazing leader in superhero films, Tim Blake Nelson? How could you do this to us! I had such high hopes for you!
This actually puts me in a real dilly of a pickle. You see, in my List of Six of the things I wanted to see on the TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tim Blake Nelson returning as the Leader was my #1 choice! The show is the perfect place to pick up abandoned plotlines from the Hulk movie! They’ve already introduced Hulk adversary Glenn Talbot to the show. Why not have Nelson guest star on Agents as the Leader? He would be perfect as a Big Bad for a season! He’s a real, legitimate comic book villain, but he’s clearly not going to appear in any future Marvel movies! Plus how cool would it be for an abandoned movie storyline to be picked up by the show? That should be exactly why Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. exists.
But here’s the thing, in my List of six of the things I wanted to see in the Fantastic Four reboot, Mole Man was my #2 entry! So the gods of pop culture gave me one of my wishes by stealing from another. It’s madness.
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