Welcome back! Join Russ, Alex, Peter and myself as we talk through Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Straight Outta Compton, The Gift, Man From UNCLE, Sinister 2, Hitman: Agent 47, I am Chris Farley, The End of the Tour, American Ultra, Mr Holmes, Vatican Tapes, Mistress America, No Escape, Z for Zachariah and more on this episode of the Movie Movie Podcast! Recorded on August 31st 2015.
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The suits at 20th Century Fox has finally announced what we’ve pretty much known since January:
Josh Trank has been hired to direct the reboot of Fantastic Four. (remember when Galactus was a cloud?)
Meh.
Josh Trank directed Chronicle. A found footage superhero teen movie that cost very little, but made around 50 million. I guess they are hoping that he extrapolates Chronicle’s success to a larger scale.
For this film I think the director is virtually interchangeable. Just get someone who isn’t a moron to write the film and a capable cast. Trank is so new to directing that I doubt he’ll bring anything good or bad to the table. However, they need to get someone who knows how to write a family to make this film work.
In a perfect world, I’d like to see Brad Bird just direct it. Yeah he did The Incredibles already, but after seeing M:I: Ghost Protocol, he can do grand scale. I also want this movie being released by Disney. They’d nail this film.
Jonathan Hickman has been writing this book like a mad man. He’s trying his best to tell these grand stories because he realizes the FF are so much more than what we’ve seen lately. He’s hitting the mark that the two films missed so much.
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