Millar Compares ‘Jaw-Dropping’
Fantastic Four Reboot to Alien

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 at 3:45pm
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Millar Compares ‘Jaw-Dropping’ <br /><i>Fantastic Four</i> Reboot to <i>Alien</i>  

Mark Millar is very excited about all the properties he’s consulting on for Fox. One of the most anticipated projects is Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, which is due in theaters March 6, 2015. In a new interview, Millar talks up the new movie in the same way he’s been promoting projects like The Wolverine. If he’s to be believed, Fantastic Four is going to be reminiscent of Alien in some ways.

“From what I’ve seen and from talking to him — he and I have had dinner a couple of times and we talk quite regularly as well — he’s contemporarising it. I think he’s just making it work for the screen — he’s a great storyteller,” Millar told SciFi Now. “Chronicle, if you think about it, was similar to Fantastic Four in that it was a bunch of people who were transformed into something more than human – that turned out almost his calling card to come and do something like Fantastic Four.”

He continued, “What I wasn’t expecting actually was just how funny and likeable he could make this as well as getting the more awesome moments on screen — I use awesome in the traditional British sense and not the California sense awesome, you know? The Ridley Scott moments, and the Fantastic Four really are jaw-dropping in the same way you feel when you saw Alien for the first time. There’s some moments in this — not to be specific — that are actually gonna be phenomenal on screen and stuff you haven’t seen in a superhero movie before.”

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  • Rubicon

    Alien was a horror movie, Fantastic Four is a story about family.  FF is not about moments, its about character.  Make it anything else and its a complete failure as an adaptation. 

  • bfg666

    The Wanted movie actually managed to twist the comics in such a bad way that it turned out to tell the exact opposite with roughly the same events. I doubt someone like Millar would honestly find it satisfying.

  • bfg666

    If only it was just a casting problem…

  • bfg666

    They all should gather and sign some sort of agreement to let that happen. This is a stupid situation since IT IS the same universe. And we need Spidey as an Avenger (and ol’ knucklehead too).

  • bfg666

    Nope.

  • bfg666

    Perfectly summed up. Also, Alba looked much too young for the role. Then Evans went to become Cap just to make sure the first Avenger couldn’t be believable either, but that’s another story…

  • Jameson Knott

    In the picture that lead’s this article…. what exactly is The Thing doing with his left hand??  O_O

  • erick nomnom

    i just hope it doesn’t dissapoint. i was beyond dissapointed when the first ff film came out.

  • zombie fan

    your wrong zombies bite they dont suck  vampires do

  • Dooomsday

    I’m agree with you, Doom needs his own movie!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Komar/576990705 Jonathan Komar

    Fox needs to give up the rights to the Fantastic Four so they can join the Avengers movies, and we can eventually build up to The Avengers fighting Doctor Doom, and stuff.

  • Ryan Kadlec

    in the Ultimate version of the Fantastic Four, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben went though the Negative Zone portal which give them Superpowers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=559525514 ΠΟΘΗΤΟΣ Μ.

    Without Chiklis as the Thing, and without Chris Evans as The Human Torch, its not going to be a good “reboot”. Those guys really nailed the characters.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=559525514 ΠΟΘΗΤΟΣ Μ.

    Evans and Chiklis nailed the characters. Even McMahon was awesome, wish he had an accent. But those three were badass

  • Qoaa

    I agree, First Class was awesome! plus I loved all the little cameo’s and bio’s shown on the computer screen if you paused it when they were scanning you could see all the bios for possible future mutants

  • Nick

    I’ve seen a few things about subliminal messaging in advertisements, all to do with sexually suggestive messages… and reading someone elses comment bout what Thing is doing with his left hand, I noticed what his other hand looks to be doing… as well as Alba’s right hand… There’s a subliminal three-way happening here. Jesus.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jehuty.ender Jehuty Grandius Ender

    As long as Susan Storm is butt naked in at least 3 scenes, I’m good.

  • Falk

    He should get his own movie. But after they need to do an ultimate alliance movie, with all the avengers, the fantastic four, the x-men, and all the other superheroes that have or will have their own movies. Then they should follow it up with the superhero civil war. But they won’t that would be to expensive.

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