New Fantastic 4 Pics

[Ash]

Well they're finally out.
Pictures of each cast member in costume have been released for us to view.

Check em' out!










I think they totally miscast the guy playing Johnny Storm's character.
Paul Walker was the right choice...not this guy.
And I admit, Jessica Alba does look pretty hot in that blue spandex!

What do you think?



Post Edited (10-07-04 18:41)

[The Burgomaster]

I think the best casting decision was Chiklis.

[Ash]

Yeah...I agree that Chiklis is a great choice.
What's up with his left arm in that pic?
It looks like half of it is broken off.

I wouldn't want to sit in his makeup chair everyday.
That Thing costume must take hours to apply.

One complaint....Chiklis doesn't look bulky enough.
I've read The Fantastic 4 comic book since I was a kid and The Thing was always huge.
Not so here....or at least in that particular pic.

And didn't The Thing wear a ring in some of the old F4 cartoons?
Two rings....he'd put them together and transform.
Right?  I forget.



Post Edited (09-28-04 06:35)

[trekgeezer]

I think they are going for the early Thing look. He didn't look quite so "rocky" when they first started out and not so big.  It also looks like they have him in pants.

Here's a neat site with a lot of cover art from the 60's. In the first few issues they didn't even have uniforms.

Fantastic Four cover art

[AndyC]

ASHTHECAT wrote:
> And didn't The Thing wear a ring in some of the old F4
> cartoons?
> Two rings....he'd put them together and transform.

I believe that was from a Hanna Barbera cartoon from the late 70s or early 80s. The Thing was a young boy, Benji, who transformed when trouble arose (usually pretty lame trouble). Didn't make much sense, and had nothing to do with the Fantastic Four, as far as I could tell. Kind of a light and fluffy treatment of the character too.

Much of the Thing's depth as a character comes from the fact that he's the only member of the team who doesn't look normal, and he's stuck as a monster all the time (although I recall at some point he picked up the power to transform at will, at least for a while). He's likeable, often a source of laughs, but deep down, he's a tragic figure, which is what makes him such a great character.

I agree, this Thing is not bulky enough, and in the face, he almost looks more like Karloff as the Mummy, or maybe Dr. Phibes. But I have to give them credit for not making him CGI.

The guy playing Reed Richards is too young.



Post Edited (09-28-04 13:28)

[akiratubo]

Reed looks all wrong; Alba is iffy.  I think they should have chosen a plainer looking woman for Sue.

I'm not a big Fantastic Four fan, though.

[nobody]

What is this? Fantastic Four: The Teenage Years? They should've hired older actors to play the parts of Sue and Reed.

[Dreggen]

Exactly what I was thinking Nobody.

[Max Gardner]

This seems a little closer to Ultimate Fantastic Four, which features a younger team and is currently being written by Warren Ellis. It's a good time. Honestly, I don't much care for the FF, but if they mess up Doctor Doom....

[The Burgomaster]

AndyC wrote:

"I recall at some point he picked up the power to transform at will, at least for a while."

There was also a time (back in the 1970s) when the Thing reverted back to his human form (I think Reed Richards cured him or something) and had to wear and exo-skeleton "Thing suit" that gave him his power.  After awhile, the "cure" wore off or something and he turned into the Thing again (and got rid of the exo-skeleton).

[trekgeezer]

I read a piece about Chiklis having a hard time with the Thing suit. With the oversized feet and hands and his ears being covered  it's like being in an isolation chamber.  They have to crack the suit open during breaks to cool him off because there is no air condittioning built in to it.

[dean]

They are making a Fantastic 4 Film? wow, I really must be out of the loop...

I really don't care who they cast in the characters, as long as the story is treated well.  If this younger cast is an attempt to make the F4 sexier to the younger generation, that's just stupid, if it is treated seriously, that is, with original, or at least effective writing, then it could be great.

Paul Walker as Johnny Storm? please, I have yet to see a Paul Walker film in which he has actually acted properly, everytime he has that same smirk.

Besides too many big name stars can create problems.

Pics look good though.

[JohnL]

>They have to crack the suit open during breaks to cool him off because there is
>no air condittioning built in to it.

That's the way with most full-body suits. I read that when they finished filming a scene for any of the Ninja Turtles movies, the guys would take off the suits and the crew in charge of the costumes would literally wring a bucket-full of sweat from each costume. Also, I think it might have been on the first Robocop movie that Peter Weller passed out from the heat.

[Fearless Freep]

Ok, isn't that lady supposed to be one of their's husband and mom to ther other one? I think she looks a bit too "young hot supermodel" for that.

[trekgeezer]

Sue and Johnny Storm are brother and sister, but  he is supposed to be the younger  smart ass brother. Sue and Reed get married , so she is supposed to be older.  Johnny is also supposed to be blonde.

Also, they changed Dr. Doom's back story. He is now  a corporate mogul instead of dictator of an Eastern Block country and he also is along for the space ship ride and gets cosmic rayed with the rest of the crew .   I'm not sure what power is supposed to be endowed with afterwards though.

To tell the truth I don't think the Thing costume for this looks any better than the one in the Roger Corman cheapie. The Doctor Doom costume in that one was also pretty good, in fact I think a big hunk of the $4 million budget went to the costumes.  Too bad the rest of the movie sucked.