In a recent sit-down with Empire Magazine, Josh Trank, director of the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot gives some insight on the film. Trank touched on every facet of the film. He started off with talking about the direction of the film.
The original two films to me are very similar to a lot of recent movies that have come out, in terms of that kind of cartoonish. It’s just not something that me and Simon are interested in as storytellers. There’s the opportunity to make something that is challenging and tragic and dramatic, the opportunity is right there in the material. We’d rather steer it in that direction as opposed to just embracing a tone that comes right off the page.
One topic that’s “plagued” fans thoughts was the fact that Johnny Storm will be played by Michael B. Jordan. Trank discussed why he decided to have a “white” Sue and “black” Johnny Storm.
I have mixed family, when I go home for Christmas, you’ll see white people and black people. That’s normal to me. I wanted a Storm family that represented 21st century families. There have always been two categories of Sue – the slutty secretary version, and this brilliant scientist version. This is a really, really smart Sue, and one that is dignified and has integrity.
Trank also delves into the friendship of Ben and Reed. He also lets us know that they’ll be some ‘surprises’.
Ben is supposed to be a smaller guy in terms of height. That idea of Ben being Reeds best friend in the archetypical way, you want that character to have warmth and strength, qualities Jamie has.
There are surprisises for everybody in the movie. We’ve had time to figure out every single iconic and subtle aspect of the Fantastic 4, and how it can organically belong to this film.
Fantastic Four hits theaters August 7th, 2015.
Via. CBM
