With Twentieth Century Fox about to start production on X-Men: First Class next week, their next Marvel film will be the reboot of Fantastic Four. We've heard rumors of Alice Eve and Amber Heard in the running for the role of Sue Storm and we already know from our own chat with someone inside the Fox SFX department that The Thing will be entirely CGI this time around, but now we finally have some info about the leader of the team: Mr. Fantastic.

According to my sources, Fox is currently pursuing high caliber talent to play the man whose ability allows him to not only act as the local genius, but to be completely elastic. The two actors in the running for Fantastic Four's Reed Richards are Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Adrien Brody.

Adrien Brody is currently a hot item and his name has already been associated with the lead role in Edgar Wright's Ant-Man for Marvel Studios. With Fox interested in the actor who can be seen in the recent releases of Predators and Splice, it seems sooner or later Brody will be a super hero. Meyers on the other hand, who played the lead alongside John Travolta in this year's From Paris With Love and star of the hit series The Tudors, hasn't been mentioned for other major comic book properties.

If Fox can nab the Oscar-Winning Brody to play the lead in Fantastic Four, taking over for Ioan Gruffudd who played Richards in the previous two installments, this will certainly make a statement in terms of the quality of films they're trying to offer in their upcoming Marvel-based movies. We already see this with the cast of X-Men: First Class as well as its director and producers so let's hope they find a good director to helm Fantastic Four as well. I'm liking the idea of either playing the part though.

In other news, the title of the film will not be "Fantastic Four Reborn" and while I don't know the title, I'll just stick with Fantastic Four until we hear otherwise. The film is targeted to hit the summer of 2012.

I'm pretty hopeful for the relaunch of Fantastic Four - I think there's potential for these characters to work well if the tone of the film is different than what we got with Rise of the Silver Surfer.

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