Bow Before Victoria Von Doom!
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Well, so far we at least have the FF themselves picked. A young hip team, I guess? More of an Ultimate version?
Don't they seem... kinda young to be the Fantastic Four?
The Ultimate versions, at least the first iteration, were pretty young. All the rumors make this sound like they're trying to get a young cast to pull in a young audience. I'm willing to bet big money they focus heavily on Reed/Sue and some love drama. I mean, the first two FF movies were okay at their best, so I'm not really expecting anything from this one, either.
I'm going to give Jessica Alba a break on this one. By all accounts of her and her co-stars, her lackluster performance was the result of the director not letting her act and instead insisting she be vapid eye candy.
I still think Michael Chiklis was a great choice for the Thing from those films.
Yeah, it's a CGI Thing. I had read that somewhere before.
Aren't astronauts like 40-50?
Well, if they stick to doing it more like the Ultimate Universe, Ben Grimm wasn't an astronaut. He traveled the world for a bit before crossing paths again with Reed, who was trying to develop a method of teleportation which passed through the Negative Zone. That teleporter (along with Victor Von Doom messing with the coordinates on it, believing his to be superior) is the origin source of the Fantastic Four's powers in the Ultimate Universe.
Yeah the Ultimate FF were barely in their 20's I think, maybe even a little younger.
Wow, so instead of the ultra cool Cosmic Rays we get Brundlefly?
Pretty much. The teleportation affects each of them in different ways, giving them their powers. In fact, the previous films borrowed a little from the Ultimate Universe take by having Dr. Doom be a part of the teleportation crew and his effect of the trip being that his body becomes metallic. At least the films didn't go fully with the Ultimate Universe, where he was Victor Van Damme.
And he had hooves. Don't forget he had hooves. And didn't he breathe bugs or something?
He did. I thought I had forgotten that. Hell, the comics tried to forget the hooves and bug-breathing thing when, since his first appearance with the cloven-hooved metal form, they showed him now decked out in his classic armor.