They should have cast Randall Park as Mr. Fantastic. Lean real hard into the multiverse
Pedro Pascal feels like a weird pick for Reed, but I quite like the idea of Joseph Quinn as Johnny.
I think Pedro has some nerd tendencies, hopefully he’s not gonna play this like his Narcos character.
I’ll never understand the way they announce a film’s premiere before they even start production. It all smells of the same bullshit corporate mechanism that cancels projects midway or ends up in theaters with subpar visuals and editing that feels rushed, with cookie-cutter action sequences and generic CGI villains.
The difference between
Film as product
and
Film as art
You can have a due date and still be “film as art”.
The date might even move around, maybe it gets bumped a week, maybe moved to November, who knows.
Let’s look at “Oppenheimer”, that came out during the same timeframe as this film is expected to, late July. It started production in early 2022.
Fantastic Four is also starting (or already in) production. Each take a year and a half to be made. Why can’t they both be art?
Making a film takes a lot of effort. So it makes sense that they would have a rough idea of how long it would take to make. Especially Disney/Marvel who have made A LOT of movies like this.
Studios schedule out pretty far in advance and every date affects everything else (they don’t want their own movies competing with one another). And shooting schedules are affected by those schedules, which means your actors might not be available if you change something. MCU stuff is further complicated by the fact that there’s links between the movies.
There’s definitely movies that are made on a less strict time frame but you often don’t see those put on the schedule until they’re complete. So you’ll see a long gap between when they’re finished and when they’re in theaters.
Pedro Pascal is a good actor, but he’s already playing two other “superhero” style roles. You would think they could find someone who isn’t already a part of other franchises.
Also does he seem anything like the role? He plays scrappy underdog turned unwilling but very capable hero well. Does he have a captain America / researcher?
Oh God, another one?
Yes?
Once released, it will have been 10 years since the last film (which was ok for the first two thirds, then a trash fire), and 20 years since the Fox series which was a very different brand of superhero movie. It was fitting for that era, but wildly different from what superhero movies look like nowadays.
Plus, it isn’t like Lord of the Rings where the definitive version has already been made.
The Fantastic Four have a shared starting point, but after that they can go on a variety of different adventures.
