With The Fantastic Four: First Steps out later this year, it'll be four takes on Marvel's first family in four decades.

With The Fantastic Four: First Steps out later this year, it’ll be four takes on Marvel’s first family in four decades.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    4 days ago

    IIRC each of them, except Silver Surfer, was done to maintain the rights. If they had failed to make a movie, the rights reverted back to Marvel.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    12·
    4 days ago

    Lots of mental gymnastics to keep the Corman thing semi-consistent there and a truly shameful attempt to gloss over Rise of the Silver Surfer to keep this shower thought of an article kinda making sense.

    • pewter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      One day silver surfer should get his own live action movie. He’s got a solid story.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        4·
        4 days ago

        Yeaaah. Nobody making comic book movies has been willing to get as weird as the premise requires.

        Maybe they could do the Slott/Allred run, which is basically just Marvel Doctor Who and seems a good deal more approachable than the very Kirby-esque baseline for the character. Still great, though, so I wouldn’t complain.

        Incidentally, “just Marvel Doctor Who” would also be my take for the Fantastic Four, which is also very hard to get right otherwise.