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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  • xsikal

    A lot comes down to the cast they find for this.  I thought everyone but Evans was pretty badly miscast in the first two.

  • Darkstream

    I really hope we finally get to see Marvel’s greatest villain, Doctor Doom, finally get the justice he deserves as a character.  

  • Stevenb Drums

    They should do Millar’s FF story that introduced the Marvel Zombies

  • Jdmsucat

    cant do marvel zombies because fox doesnt own rights to all the marvel characters just ,spiderman and fantasic four 

  • Alex

    Alien… hmmm… trip to the negative zone maybe?

  • Alex

     Spider-Man is at Colombia/Sony.  Fox has  FF and X-Men.

  • Alex

     and i think they recently lost Daredevil

  • YonahMoshe

    DERP!
    Enough with the damn zombies.. it’s been done to death. Zombies suck.. get over it already.

  • http://twitter.com/Jeff98926622 Jeff

    Mark Millar is a company man cheerleader. 
    He thought Wanted was a good movie.

  • Sean

    actually, fox owns the movie rights to the wolverine, the x-men, and daredevil. Sony owns Spider-man

  • Jude

    Vague, cliched hype from a shill.

  • M. Walsh

     Bah! Doom should get his own movie! Then he should be the villain in a future Avengers!

  • M. Walsh

    I find this a very odd comparison.

    When I think of Ridley Scott’s Alien, I think a dreary, claustrophobic atmosphere. I imagine horror and dread, with creatures bursting out of a guy’s stomach and a seven foot rape-monster lurking in the shadows.

    Not sure how that translates to Fantastic Four…

  • http://www.facebook.com/comicbookcub Erik Galston

    they don’t have Daredevil anymore… 

  • Rollo Tomassi

    Exactly.

    And he managed to work another Fox film franchise into the hype.
    I wonder if he gets a bonus for doing so?

  • AirDave

    I liked Michael Chiklis as The Thing. They handled Ben and Johnny pretty good…

  • Boomtuber

    Hope they don’t screw up the casting this time…

  • Boomtuber

    True for Ben and Johnny, but Reed and Sue sucked…

  • http://twitter.com/RealThndrMonkey George Mitchell

    Oh man… That would be awesome to see Spider-Man show up in a Fantastic Four movie.

  • Stephen Bergstrom

     And X-Men.

  • http://twitter.com/BarryTheMuslim BarryTheMuslim

    Mark Millar is a Hype Queen.. Grain of Salt.

  • Jon

    I’m not sure how many more times this can be repeated, but Sony owns Spider-Man’s film rights. Fox owns Fantastic Four and X-Men. Marvel owns everyone you saw in The Avengers.

    There will be no crossovers between the 3 movie universes.

  • http://twitter.com/jcb10 John C. Baker

    I actually thought Gruffudd and Chiklis were OK. (Chiklis in performance and voice, if not appearance.) Alba and Doom were horrible in both characterization and acting.

  • darthtigris

    …….. oh god, can someone stop this from happening so the rights can revert back to Marvel and somebody will finally do this property right PLEEEEEEEASE?????

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_33I2AGM76MVZ254NEUXFPG5NPM Daniel

    The guy who completely misunderstood and butchered Reed’s character in “Civil War” by turning him into a super-powered Dr. Mengele is now in charge of an FF movie?

    Think I’ll pass on this.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_33I2AGM76MVZ254NEUXFPG5NPM Daniel

    Amen!

  • http://profiles.google.com/davesikula Dave Sikula

    How unlike Millar to pimp the hell out of something that will probably turn out to be a piece of crap.

  • Evan

    I was at the FF panel in Hall H at Comic Con before the first FF movie came out. Tim Story wouldn’t say who (it ended up being Julian McMahon, as we know), but they had this great actor who “does a great accent” cast as Doctor Doom. Then I saw the movie. Yeah, Doom sounded like a Latverian, alright. An American of Latverian descent, maybe. LOL.

  • Evan

    Maybe he goofed and meant Aliens.

  • coalminds

    This absolutely is not a most anticipated project lol.

  • momaw

    Except Julian McMahon is Australian.

  • momaw

    First Class was better than any of the Marvel films.

  • http://twitter.com/chrismcfeely Chris McFeely

     I remember from commentary on the DVD that he DID start out recording the film with an accent, but they decided to ditch it.

  • jrau18

    But you could do the original story, which was only the F4 as zombies.

  • RunnerX13

    I seriously doubt it, but maybe something as
    lame as the FF should try to be something other than a comic book movie.
     One of the main reasons the first two Predator was so great was because
    both movie could have almost stand-alone without the Predator in it. Why
    not do a cool sci-fi movie were the crew investigating an alien ship/plant are
    the FF?

  • Shawn Kane

    The only problem I had with casting was Jessica Alba but the characterization of Reed was awful in the first movie. Sue as a scientist was an okay change but I’d have no problem with it being a straight 60′s era period piece. Tell the story that Stan and Jack did and you won’t have any problems.

  • mel

    That’s what the comics are like. They’re explorers not superheroes.

  • darthtigris

    …….. ok, thank you for that non sequitur opinion.

  • http://twitter.com/ThatDVBloke Matt

    If Mark Millar is involved it won’t be released until 2023

  • Evan

    We know that, I’m talking about how he played Doom.

  • Evan

    Just your opinion. In my opinion, it is not.

  • Alex

    In this movie, there’s a big war. Susan leaves Reed because of it and then they get back together like nothing happened four issues later.

    Wait, that never made sense, did it? They introduced stuff, then went back on it almost immediatly.: ) 

  • http://twitter.com/Hannibal95 Eli Gutierrez

    Which characters from the FF universe does Fox have the rights to?

  • DoigtDuPeuple

    While Chilkis was good, I don’t think that The Thing was any good at all… I mean it’s supposed to be bigger and rocky, his costume just looked like what it was.. a costume… Sometime CGI will interfere in the look and feel of a movie, but other times it is needed, such has this character.  He needs to be created out of CGI to be more “Thing like”.. The costume is just painted foam and looks like it too… 

    Alba, while one of the most prettiest faces in Hollywood, was poorly cast. She’s not the best actress out there that could portray the character.  I would go for more of a normal day-to-day looking up and coming actress that proved herself than just another hot looking girl that got her hair done.. 

    Evans was ok, but then again the whole character was basically badly written, same for Mister Fantastic.
    I guess what I’M saying is that the whole thing fell apart with bad writters and one character that should’ve been CGI’d instead of “foamed up”…

  • Mike

    Dude, “zombies” is the gayest, most dumbass thing ever to hit comics as a “genre”. Zombie this, zombie that … every where you turn anymore in modern pop culture we now have “zombies” rammed up our asses. The only reason MARVEL even started that, is to cash in on the hype of that stupid genre that had unfortunately already permeated everything else …

  • xsikal

     I thought Chiklis was okay, but the practical effects combined with his relatively small stature really did not work for me. 

    The guy playing Reed had the general look down pretty well, I thought, but I didn’t think he had much in the way of on-screen presence. 

    Alba is hot, but brought nothing else to the role.

    And the less said about Doom, the better! :)

  • Sonofspam

    Millar is master of hype if nothing else.

  • hardcore_4X4

    I liked the 4 movies.

  • Jim

    Dude, he wrote the “Wanted” comic book, so it wouldn’t be nice if he said “Whoa, this movie sucks!”, it does suck, but I mean, it’s the movie of HIS book, so he probably liked it.
    And for the record, he also wrote the Kick Ass comics and the movie was cool (not great, just cool).

  • Danomac

    First Class was a steaming pile of nonsense. 

    Can Fox realize that fans want to see characters and stories in tune with the books from which they came? Please??

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