tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post1287238841356028262..comments2024-03-28T10:14:58.693+00:00Comments on The Good the Bad and the Insulting: Josh Trank's Fantastic Four - Adaptation or Betrayal?Bellariushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02652722543111095280noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-42723104242614772872014-07-20T10:11:49.164+01:002014-07-20T10:11:49.164+01:00That's pretty much what everyone is saying in ...That's pretty much what everyone is saying in relation to this - If they're not even going to pay lip service to the source material, why make any kind of adaptation? The thing is, looking at this a few times there are plenty of teams which this might have worked for. Even ignoring big name ones like the X-Men (or one of the now ignored teams like Generation-X) who would have been perfect for this, there are teams like the Runaways or Avengers Academy who would have been perfect for this sort of premise. The latter especially given the nature of their powers, their lack of experience and some of the ideas we've seen hinted at.<br /><br />Nothing ever good comes of a film which is apparently ashamed of its own source material, and this entire thing sounds like it's going wrong from the start.Bellariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02652722543111095280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-18612682247635886732014-07-20T10:06:14.504+01:002014-07-20T10:06:14.504+01:00That's actually a pretty good comparison, wher...That's actually a pretty good comparison, where a film has effectively taken a much bigger name for itself and then proceeded to completely ignore anything about the basic premise. I actually did a bit of digging after this and there's been a surprisingly large number of attempts or basic cases of this. Upon getting Frank Miller onboard for a Batman film, he and the director turned it into a work of pure insanity before the studio took one look at the script and shut the whole thing down.Bellariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02652722543111095280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-70590724764463006322014-07-20T01:11:41.570+01:002014-07-20T01:11:41.570+01:00Why even bother calling it the Fantastic Four then...Why even bother calling it the Fantastic Four then? Why not just change the names and let it be its own thing? At this point the only reason I can see for keeping the names the same is to trick fans of the series into going to see it.<br />Who knows though, it might be good, in the same way that everything might be good, but I won't get my hopes up, as I haven't seen anything that I liked where the director wasn't a fan of the source material.grdaathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722216755745063033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1831276194138109948.post-31394050397477915732014-07-19T04:46:28.208+01:002014-07-19T04:46:28.208+01:00From what I have been hearing about this reboot la...From what I have been hearing about this reboot lately, it sounds like this would be more suited for a sequel to Chronicle than a Fantastic Four reboot. Still waiting for a trailer before I go into panic mode or excitement mode, but I am a little bit worried that this will be another Catwoman: a movie that is in no way like the comic it is based on and with the main actor(s) not portraying the character properly or in an interesting light that still maintains a few familiar characteristics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07193435864963242926noreply@blogger.com