More Old FANTASTIC FOUR Movie Ideas Are Coming Out of the Woodwork as the Reboot Nears Release




It's not easy to stay optimistic for Fox's FANTASTIC FOUR franchise. It doesn't help matters when director Peyton Reed disclosed his pitch for a FANTASTIC FOUR movie that was scrapped by 20th Century Fox (see that post link below). It was to be a period piece movie that sounded better than the first two movies and its concept might be better than the reboot, too.

Next up in the 'let's disclose our FANTASTIC FOUR movie ideas to the public right before the reboot hits' is Christopher Columbus. The director spoke about (via CB) his version of FANTASTIC FOUR.

"[Michael Barnathan and I] got fired from the first movie before they ever started making it. There was some conceptual art, I may have said something like, ‘We can maybe try and make the production design a little more Jack Kirby-eque.’ That was probably the comment that got me canned.”

In other words it sounds like Fox didn't want a classic comic book inspired version for their FANTASTIC FOUR movie. Seeing as how Fox is already attempting to reboot the franchise, it seems like their choices for the first movies were all the wrong ones. Maybe the reboot will fix these problems or maybe it won't and Marvel's first family could make their way back home to Marvel Studios. 

Dr. Doom really needs to be terrorizing the heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe anyway.