I have read my fair share of comic books in my life, mostly on the DC side of things, but I have never had the urge to pick up an issue of the “Fantastic Four”. I could not give you a particular reason as to why, but the concept of the team never appealed to me. The feature film adaptations did very little to sway me towards the team either, because those are two pretty terrible movies. I have seen the infamous Roger Corman produced Fantastic Four film, which is charming in its shlock but, again, never had me wanting to see further adventures.
The prospect of a reboot in order for 20th Century Fox to hold onto the rights did not have me dancing in the streets. However, the upcoming The Fantastic Four (that “The” really makes a difference) does feature a very talented young cast, including Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and, the subject of this article, Miles Teller.
At a screening for his latest, and well reviewed, film Whiplash (you can read Brad’s review here), Teller claims that this iteration of Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing will be “different in every way.”
In an interview with Vulture, Teller said:
All those actors were a lot older, their characters were in different places. The tone of this film is completely different: We don’t have Michael Chiklis in a big Styrofoam thing, and I think that [a more grounded approach] is what people are into — X-Men: First Class is doing that. You’re dealing with these characters but you’re making them real people in how they exist day-to-day. People wanted it to be taken more seriously than the kind of Dick Tracy, kitschy, overly comic-book world.
I, for one, have enjoyed the approach taken in the X-Men franchise as of late, and if it works for The Fantastic Four, terrific. This quote does not give me a lot of confidence, because it is much easier to say something than to do something, so I will take all of this with a grain of salt. I do know one thing: I desperately want to see Whiplash.
Original report from Vulture
