P.S. great job in True Blood cant wait for season 3!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheChosen1/2009/09/27/Fantastic-Four-Reboot-Plans

tyvm for the enlightenment, after reading this thread now, I feel the same way about the article as you do about the original F4 film, I feel like I’m settling for crap about some dream casting call for a comic book film that didn’t trip your trigger on the first pass. What is much more likely is that this discussion is most likely apropos of nothing considering all of the Marvel and DC options that are suddenly going to be more viable in the new environment based on the most recent financial deals.

While F4 wasn’t exactly the best thing since sliced bread, and I do not believe that anyone else here is saying that, it’s that comparitively, based on all of the other attempts to bring comic books to life, it was certainly less dreadful than many others. I think it’s easy to see where I am coming from, after having a serious line of stinkers that were X3, Hulk, Elektra, Ghost Rider and Daredevil is that our collective expectations have been lowered somewhat. Yeah I can demand that Hollywood make better movies, but they aren’t exactly returning my calls, y’know?

Even though it would never happen,Nicole Kidman would probably be the best choice for Sue,followed by Naomi Watts.Sue needs to look like a total WASP and be non ethnic looking.If you want a little younger actress with a cheaper price tag,maybe Ali Larter will do,but then you would have to get someone that is noticeably younger looking than her to play Johnny.I’m thinking maybe someone like Sean Faris.

As for Reed,here’s an interesting choice that I just thought of,Ron Livingston.

So here’s my cast
Reed-Ron Livingston
Sue-Ali Larter
Johnny-Sean Faris
Ben-Micheal Chiklis(there really isn’t anyone else that could do it better)

I don’t know,it could work,if only they wrote a GOOD script.

Go back and watch the scene on the bridge where Alba strips down and saves the day. See if you can spot the total screw up in how they cut that scene together. While you do that notice: the terrible stretching f/x; how hollow and stiff Ioan G and Jessica Alba are together onscreen; how bad Mr. Nip/Tuck was as Doom…

…Dude, hopefully a reboot can show you guys what the F4 are SUPPOSED to be like. You guys really do settle for some crap.

I but the F4 films in the same box as Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider, and X3. Now that I think about it, the fact that so many people who are saying F4 was OK but X3 was TERRIBLE… You baffle me.

the first film wasn’t bad, it was just fine on it’s own merits and yes, I thought Alba did a credible job in it. I thought the entire cast did well based on how the origin story was handled, just the proper amount of angst and action. The second film was stinky turd awful. So the same set of actors who did a credible job in the first movie suddenly can’t cut the mustard? I guess that supposes some agreement that the first film was decent. I have a hard time getting excited about a “franchise” that the studio screwed the pooch on. It’s not the fault of the actors if they got the wrong guy behind the camera and a set of drugged monkeys pounding the word processors. Wasn’t that the same problem about The Hulk? Oh geez we screwed it up so let us try again, oops that wasn’t exactly it either so one more time please?

Speaking as a person who grew up on the comics in the 60′s and 70′s, I think this trend is gonna come crashing down pretty soon, there’s only so many hero stories out there with evil supervillians and tortured souls who have secret abilities that you can make films about that don’t all look the same after a while, y’know?