I have beat up on the upcoming Fantastic Four movie for the past year, and I’m not alone. This happens mostly because everything coming/leaking out about the film leads us to believe that the film will be…problematic.
But such talk is, really, all just talk. It goes only so far and ends when we start to see actual footage from the film. The property has never successfully been adapted for the the big screen (you might remember-but probably not-the terrible FF that was released in 2005, or its equally terrible sequel: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The failure of that franchise did free up Chris Evans to join Marvel’s team as Captain America, so yeah failure). As for Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four? The truth is that we don’t know much about it.
All we really know about Fantastic Four is a group of very talented folks-Josh Trank’s Chronicle is one of the best superhero movies of the new millennium; add Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller and Kate Mara, and you really could do worse-have come together to give this sci-fi super-family comic-book one more shot.
We’ve had our fun. But now, we have a trailer and can start to ask ourselves what we should expect from Fantastic Four. So. What should we expect from Fantastic Four upon its release in August? I’ve watched the teaser trailer, released this week, a time or two, and I can say this: I’m not sure. But I think it’s safe to say the trailer gives us more room for optimism than any thing previously officially or unofficially said, announced, leaked, or snarked about Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four.
What do you think? Are you optimistic about this year’s FF?
