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Silver Surfer Movie (Sort of) Happening [Updated]

Rob Keyes — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:42:14 +0000

[Update: Silver Surfer isn't as dead as first reported. See post for details.]

The last significant update we heard on the proposed Silver Surfer movie was last summer when director Alex Proyas said he’s definitely not working on the project, emphasizing that he’d never work with Fox studios again.

Since then, we have found out that Fox is pushing forward with the Fantastic Four reboot and that it would feature an entirely new cast. What does that mean for the Silver Surfer spin-off many were hoping for? Well, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Writer J. Michael Straczynski recently spoke with Collider last week and touched on the subject, saying that the not-so-hot reception to Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer made the studio put plans for the Silver ...

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The Weekly Rant – June 22, 2007

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:30:04 +0000

Hey, thanks for the suggestions on renaming Screen Rant’s weekly podcast! I’ve decided to go with regular commenter Chip Chief‘s suggestion and from here on it this will be called:

The Weekly Rant

This week’s podcast does indeed include a rant regarding who movie critics write their reviews for (other critics or the public?) plus my thoughts on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Also covered this week is news about the new Batsuit from The Dark Knight, talk about the possibility of Samuel L. Jackson playing Nick Fury in Iron Man, the first official pic of Harrison Ford from the set of the new Indiana Jones movie, and more!

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Cool Fantastic Four 1/4 Scale ‘Thing’ Statue

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:18:29 +0000

With the popularity of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I thought I’d highlight a related collectible. Sideshow Collectibles is running out of these 1/4 scale maquettes of the Ben Grimm/Thing character so you might want to check ‘em out and maybe grab one for yourself. It’s a big piece, standing 16″ tall, and this detailed, lifelike solid polystone maquette was used as the control design model for the fabrication and sculpture for the full sized suit seen in the first film.

I own a couple of Sideshow Collectibles items and they’re very cool and high quality. In particular I love my Iron Man Extremis Armor comiquette, which I purchased for $250 and is now going for about $700 on eBay (not that I’ll sell it, of course). My recent Spider-Man 3 contest featured a Sideshow Spider-Man bust and this was the reaction of the ...

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Movie Reviewers Need To Lighten Up

Vic Holtreman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:54:20 +0000

When reviewing movies, I form my own opinion – but one of my favorite websites for helping me decide whether or not to go see a movie is RottenTomatoes.com. I really like the “consensus” approach they use in determining whether or not a movie is good or bad in a general sense.

If you’re not familiar with the site, it gathers reviews from across the web and based on the ratings of individual reviews determines whether the movie gets a ripe or rotten tomato. 60% and above overall positive reviews garners a film a ripe tomato, indicating that it’s a good flick according to the majority. Anything under that gets a rotten tomato. My experience is that anything down to about 50% can be a pretty ...

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Review: Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surver

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:20:47 +0000

By Vic Holtreman

Short version: Although at times it felt like a made-for-TV movie, a far better film than the first and more entertaining than the super-serious Spider-man 3.

So it’s possible.

Not only can a sequel be better than the original, but it can be done with the same director and writer. By process of elimination, it would seem that the blame for how bad the first film was can perhaps be laid at the feet of the one guy missing from the new production crew: writer Michael France. I can’t say for sure, but at the top level it seems like pretty much everyone from the first film was still there for the second one. Pure speculation on my part, of course.

Anyway, on to the ...

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Screen Rant Weekly Podcast – June 14, 2007

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:32:00 +0000

Just a grab bag of stuff from the last week and half including my server crash, thoughts on Fantastic Four 2 being rated PG, Jericho‘s return, Lost‘s ending, why I’m worried about the recently announced Captain America movie, and more!

BTW, maybe I could ask for suggestions from those of you who are regular readers/listeners for a new name for my podcast? “Screen Rant Weekly Podcast” just seems a little… boring, ya know?

P.S. I apologize for the poor quality of the audio today… I think I need to invest in a new microphone. :-\

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No More Freaking FF2 Or Tranformers Clips!

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:45:21 +0000

Holee crap… it seems like every other day another three movie clips and 24 new images come out for either Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer or Transformers.

I refuse to post another video clip or new image from either of these upcoming films here at Screen Rant. Seriously, just how much of these movies do you want to see before you ever set foot in the stinking movie theater?!? I understand the concept of the Hollywood Hype Machine and it’s ever increasing need to beat the last box office record (most money made on a 3.5 day weekend in an odd numbered month during the summer solstice, for example).

But for crying out loud, FF2 is due out in what, 7 days? And Transformers… well jeez, that one is down to 3 1/2 weeks How in the heck will we survive without being fed constant new scenes from ...

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Fantastic Four 2 Is Rated PG

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:19:39 +0000

Is the pendulum finally swinging the other way? For the longest time action movies pushed the PG-13 envelope, doing razor thin trims until they just barely escaped the R-rating and slid in to theaters as PG-13 for those lucrative teen and preteen dollars.

Now I hear from /Film that Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer has gotten a PG rating! I did not expect that at all… I had assumed it was a given that it would get a PG-13. Very surprising as far as I’m concerned.

I guess if you remove all foul language and any sexual innuendo, a superhero movie can actually get a PG-13 rating. My guess is that the violence in the film is of such a non-specific and fantasy ...

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Yet Another Rise of the Silver Surfer Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:27:44 +0000

With Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer only two weeks away, Fox has release yet another trailer, with some new footage in it:

Now although a previous trailer actually had me thinking this one might turn out to be not-so-bad, I have some concerns with the team’s switching powers storyline. Seeing Johnny Storm using Reed’s stretch power and Grimm’s big rocky fist while on fire just seems over the top to me.

What do you guys think?

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Could Rise Of The Silver Surfer Be Better Than The First FF Movie?

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:00:52 +0000

So it’s almost here. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (don’t you love super-long movie titles?) opens on June 15th and the marketing blitz is in high gear. It almost seemed like 20th Century Fox bought up all the advertising time on the season finale of Heroes to pitch this sequel. Is it possible that the sequel could be better than the original?

Now I’ll grant you that wouldn’t be terribly difficult since the first Fantastic Four movie was pretty weak (I only gave it stars), but it’s entirely possible for a sequel to go downhill even from there. My hope is that (if you’ll pardon the pun) this one will actually rise to the ...

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Rise Of The Silver Surfer Trailer: Hope For FF2?

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:49:00 +0000

The final trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is out and it’s much more impressive than the original teaser trailer that was released a while back.

This trailer actual makes the movie look like it might have some pretty intense moments, but that’s helped quite a bit by the music, which I don’t know if it’s the same as will be in the final film. There are quite a few cool scenes that seem to carry dramatic weight along with the humor between Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm from the first film.

Of course the problem is that this is just a trailer, and it’s quite common for ...

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Fanboys Appeased: Ben Grimm Has A Brow

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:29:03 +0000

One of the complaints about the first Fantastic Four movie was the fact that Ben Grimm as The Thing did not have his trademark big honkin’ brow ridge.

Based on the photo on the left it looks like the folks making the movie heard that and fixed that particular issue in Rise of the Silver Surfer. The first image is from the first film and the second image is from the sequel.

At least it looks like they’re going to do one thing right in the upcoming film.

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AICN Losing It’s Cool?

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:50:51 +0000

Ain’t It Cool News has always been a huge movie site, with it’s founder Harry Knowles becoming a bit of a celebrity among the geek fanboy movie crowd (don’t be offended, I’m IN that crowd). Like many movie websites out there (including this one) they report rumors based on information sent to them, but usually their sources are pretty solid.

However right now they’re getting pretty hammered in regards to recent reports about Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

First they reported that Laurence Fishburne was providing the voice of Galactus in the film, but it turns out that he’s going to be the voice of the Silver Surfer. The same story told of a test screening in Seattle where the feedback was that the movie was absolutely horrible.

Considering how much clout the site has, FOX put out some information today stating that not only was there ...

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Galactus With A 20% Chance Of Rain

Vic Holtreman — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:37:37 +0000

Wow, this has got to be the most interesting story I’ve read so far today. On the heels of some very bad preview reactions to Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, comes the news from AICN that Galactus will appear in the form of:

A giant cloud.

According to Moriarity (probably my favorite contributor to AICN) someone sent in a scoop regarding what the big-G will look like in the upcoming film. I think I felt a collective scream in the Fanboy collective upon reading the news.

Here’s a quote from Tom Rothman, stated back before the first Fantastic Four movie was made:

“There won’t be any giant robots in any movie my studio makes.”

This, of course crushed the idea of ever having Sentinels appear in any Rothman-helmed Marvel superhero flick. (Sentinels being the 10 story tall robots that were created ...

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Fantastic Four Sequel Worse Than The First?

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:24:57 +0000

The big news this week is supposedly that Laurence Fishburne may be doing the voice of Galactus, but I think that this tidbit from Ainitcoolnews is a lot more newsworthy: There was a screening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer a couple of days ago and the reaction was, to put it mildly, not good.

The specific quote that was sent to AICN was:

“[it was] sooo bad that they felt dirty and wanted to write letters of complaint.”

This is pretty much unverified, so it could be legit or it could be some uber-disgruntled hard core fanboy’s reaction. However, the fact that we have the same writers and the same director (Tim Story) on this one as we had on the first one does not bode well ...

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