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Alex Proyas Says No To Silver Surfer Movie

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:27:49 +0000

Jeez-Louise, 20th Century Fox, you are not doing so hot these days. First comes word that you had the lowest box office totals for summer 2008; next furious fanboys worldwide want to rip you a new one over your Watchmen lawsuit; and now some acclaimed directors are beginning to speak out about what a soul-crushing, creatively stifling cabal of evil your company truly is.

Babylon A.D. director Mathieu Kassovitz had no qualms about pointing the finger at executive meddling as the reason his film sucks. And now acclaimed director Alex Proyas is throwing up the finger (so to speak) in Fox’s face–and his displeasure is a veritable death sentence for what might have been one of the coolest comic book movie adaptations of all: The Silver Surfer.

Alex Proyas (Dark City, which if you haven’t seen, run, don’t walk and get the DVD) tried to play coy at first, telling eager reporters at this year’s Comic-Con that his involvement with The Silver Surfer flick was nothing but Internet rumor. However when MTV News spoke with Proyas, the director again axed any rumors that he was working on a Silver Surfer flick, but went on to give one very specific reason:

“Because it’s a Fox picture,” the ‘Dark City’ helmer said. “And I’m determined never to work with them ever again because of my experience on ‘I,Robot.’”

Ouch. Not a good look for you, Fox. Not. At. All.

X-Men: The Last Stand left many fans of the series reeling in horror, (though I personally thought it was better than the first X-Men movie.) And the Fantastic Four films have been so freaking abysmal that rumor has it FF3 will NEVER happen. Silver Surfer might’ve changed the downward trend of Fox’s comic book properties had it been left in the capable hands of a director like Proyas. But because we ARE dealing with Fox, what could’ve been one of the most cosmically epic adaptation this side of Green Lantern, has ultimately resulted in this:

“You know, there aren’t that many [good comic book characters] left,” [Proyas] sighed. “Silver Surfer would have been something I would have loved to have done. He’s one of the last cool ones left, really.”

Come on, Fox: you haven’t just killed a potentially kick-ass Silver Surfer film, you’ve likely put one director off from EVER doing a comic book flick. That is disdain you don’t see everyday.

The Silver Surfer is mad because he’s not getting a movie

Fox, in a small, dark, oily pit of my heart I still have love for ya. We’re going through a rough patch right now, and I will admit that I’ve considered a divorce, but I took a vow long ago to stand by you and I’m going to try my best to do so. But you’re not making it easy.

Do you think that the prospect of a Silver Surfer movie has boogie-boarded off into the distance with Alex Proyas? Or (God forbid) will Fox find a way to crank out a Surfer flick that will make us all want to cry ourselves to sleep at night? Let us know what you think.

Source: MTV News

(More) Galactus Will Return In Silver Surfer Movie

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:06:46 +0000

It’s way, WAY early but Tim Story, director of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer stated recently that they didn’t show more of Galactus in the film because they wanted to save him for the stand alone Silver Surfer movie.

Tim Story said the following regarding the devourer of worlds:

“We decided early on that we would not bring him to life completely as you might think of him in the comics, being a man with the suit and the helmet and everything else,” Story said during his commentary. One of the main reasons is because we always knew that there was going to be a Silver Surfer 1, or they were going to make a spin-off of the Silver Surfer. If I gave up everything in this movie, then that movie wouldn’t have much to go on. Knowing that I wasn’t going to do it that early, I wanted to keep it fairly open to interpretation by the director who would do that one. So the idea of the cloud and everything made pretty good sense to us.”

Kind of nice of him to be so concerned for the next director, don’t ‘cha think?

Right now everything is up in the air due to the possible impending stirkes in Hollywood, but the last I heard, Alex Proyas was set to direct Silver Surfer. I’m a big fan of Proyas and would thoroughly look forward to his vision of the silver dude on the big screen.

Source: Comics Continuum via Comics2Film

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer will be available on Tuesday, October 2nd.

Ton ‘O Marvel Superhero Movies On The Way

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:54:19 +0000

Holy cow, Marvel is planning on releasing a TON of superhero movies. Will they all be great? Not likely… I’m sure they’ll have some Ghost Riders in there, but on the other hand they may strike gold with some depending on who is writing and directing.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s in the pipeline beyond what’s already currently in production: Wolverine, Magneto, Punisher 2, Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner, Thor, Avengers (maybe) and Captain America. Whew!

Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios did have one thing to say that gave me pause concerning their take on Captain America:

“We’ll have to play with Captain America as being a patriotic propaganda machine on one hand but also being a very human Steve Rogers interesting fascinating hero in his own right.”

Now I haven’t been a big follower of Cap over the years, but calling him a patriotic propaganda machine seems to me to be way out of line and a bad sign of what the script may end up being like. My take on Cap is that he was created strictly as a prototype for what would be an army of super-soldiers to help defeat the Nazis. In regards to patriotism, Steve Rogers (the man behind the mask) was always fiercely patriotic, without any influence from the government. That has in fact been the driving characteristic of Captain America over the decades: His unflinching and unapologetic patriotism for the United States.

So hearing the phrase “patriotic propaganda machine” mentioned in relation to a movie about the venerable hero makes me more than a bit nervous the movie. Of course it’s way early in the process, so who knows how it will turn out in the end.