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014 - Fantastic Four(th Time's A Charm)
Jan. 15th, 2016 04:57 pmThe Fantastic Four movie made pretty much every "Worst Of 2015" list this year, so since that was the *third attempt* at bringing the Fantastic Four to the silver screen, I have a suggestion for the next one.
Just use the frickin' Comic Book as a storyboard.
There are a billion reasons that Hollywood will tell you what that can't and won't work, but why not just go for it? Cast actors based on their looks. Hire SFX teams that can capture Kirby-style design and action. Get Stan Lee in the writers room to help "punch up" the dialogue. But most importantly, STAY ON SCRIPT!
It's an easy formula! Act 1, introduce the team leaping into action. Act 2, back-story about how they got their powers. Act three, defeat The Mole Man's monsters, setting up the next movie "The Fantastic Four Versus The Kingdom Of The Mole Man". Put in the other, flashy stuff as filler/easter egg/foreshadowing peppered in the background; Victor Von Doom is jealous of Reed Richards, An ominous darkness of immeasurable proportions is barely being detected coming towards earth heralded by a single man-sized UFO that looks like a man on a surfboard, stuff like that.
For The Fantastic Four, it really should be *that simple*!
Just use the frickin' Comic Book as a storyboard.
There are a billion reasons that Hollywood will tell you what that can't and won't work, but why not just go for it? Cast actors based on their looks. Hire SFX teams that can capture Kirby-style design and action. Get Stan Lee in the writers room to help "punch up" the dialogue. But most importantly, STAY ON SCRIPT!
It's an easy formula! Act 1, introduce the team leaping into action. Act 2, back-story about how they got their powers. Act three, defeat The Mole Man's monsters, setting up the next movie "The Fantastic Four Versus The Kingdom Of The Mole Man". Put in the other, flashy stuff as filler/easter egg/foreshadowing peppered in the background; Victor Von Doom is jealous of Reed Richards, An ominous darkness of immeasurable proportions is barely being detected coming towards earth heralded by a single man-sized UFO that looks like a man on a surfboard, stuff like that.
For The Fantastic Four, it really should be *that simple*!
