Fantastic Four reboot
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You know Fox would have Falcon Cap played by a white guy.
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The powers look great. Johnny especially.
Every studio racelifts. I dont think there's a single CBM coming that hasn't got a race lifted character
Every studio racelifts. I dont think there's a single CBM coming that hasn't got a race lifted character
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The Thing needs some pants. He won't always have the luxury of having smoke or his friends standing in front of him covering...whatever it is that they're trying to hide 
fosing
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that THING looks like a product of low fiber in your diet.
It all feels very mid-2000's to me. The Thing looks like he could have been a villain in TIH and the rest of the team's action sequences just look like what we were used to with the first two FF films.
jye4ever
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The action seems like it will be very exciti....zzZZZzzzzzzzzz
Deckard
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Did you see the way he flew up that air duct? Holy cow. That action!
Irvy
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This will be joining genysis in the flops of 2015.
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Doing well enough to be in the green and start a franchise would be good enough I reckon.
As a reboot and the first of a potential franchise (meaning it can't coast by on the last one) I'd wager they have conservative budget and estimates
As a reboot and the first of a potential franchise (meaning it can't coast by on the last one) I'd wager they have conservative budget and estimates
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Nah..
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I know I'm going.
I have a perfectly good vein for the MCU needle.
I have a perfectly good vein for the MCU needle.
GasparZizou
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No way, Marvel still has the general audience in its pocket, even if the hype is starting to fade a little.
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Michael B. Jordan's Heartfelt Response To Those Opposed To His FANTASTIC FOUR Casting
You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is what they were saying: “A black guy? I don’t like it. They must be doing it because Obama’s president” and “It’s not true to the comic.” Or even, “They’ve destroyed it!”
It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore. I can see everybody’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, “You’re good. I’m okay with this,” who am I to go against that?
Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.” Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank, who is in an interracial relationship himself—a reflection of what a modern family looks like today.
This is a family movie about four friends—two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister—who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it.
Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself. People are always going to see each other in terms of race, but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much. Maybe, if I set an example, Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles, and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.” Or maybe we have to reach past them.
To the trolls on the Internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.
You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is what they were saying: “A black guy? I don’t like it. They must be doing it because Obama’s president” and “It’s not true to the comic.” Or even, “They’ve destroyed it!”
It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore. I can see everybody’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, “You’re good. I’m okay with this,” who am I to go against that?
Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.” Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank, who is in an interracial relationship himself—a reflection of what a modern family looks like today.
This is a family movie about four friends—two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister—who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it.
Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself. People are always going to see each other in terms of race, but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much. Maybe, if I set an example, Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles, and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.” Or maybe we have to reach past them.
To the trolls on the Internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.
GasparZizou
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I was liking his argument, but he lost me here.
I agreed with him when he said we could take it as an artistic choice, I can get behind that, but then he contradicted himself, "meet the racial quota" --> "it's the world we live in" like it's ok to race swap just because the world is more diverse.
Doesn't matter if the world is "more diverse today", because today there are more diverse characters than ever, there's no need for race swaps when you can flesh out characters that already are diverse, I don't want a Mexican Batman, we already have a Mexican Batman, Zorro, same as I don't want a Zorro ******.
I don't have a problem connecting with Batman because he's not Mexican, if people have that problem and can only feel included or identified by having their ethnicity/culture portrayed on screen, then maybe they're the racists ones.
TLDR: If it's an artistic choice and makes the characters and their interactions better, or more unique in a good way, great, if it's just a race swap, then it's dumb, period.
I have seen Chronicle and the character interactions are great, so I have faith it makes sense.
I agreed with him when he said we could take it as an artistic choice, I can get behind that, but then he contradicted himself, "meet the racial quota" --> "it's the world we live in" like it's ok to race swap just because the world is more diverse.
Doesn't matter if the world is "more diverse today", because today there are more diverse characters than ever, there's no need for race swaps when you can flesh out characters that already are diverse, I don't want a Mexican Batman, we already have a Mexican Batman, Zorro, same as I don't want a Zorro ******.
I don't have a problem connecting with Batman because he's not Mexican, if people have that problem and can only feel included or identified by having their ethnicity/culture portrayed on screen, then maybe they're the racists ones.
TLDR: If it's an artistic choice and makes the characters and their interactions better, or more unique in a good way, great, if it's just a race swap, then it's dumb, period.
I have seen Chronicle and the character interactions are great, so I have faith it makes sense.
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