Originally Posted by Hokeyboy

They could make it work. Set it in the 60s with a very Mad Men'esque vibe, with a Baxter Building and the whole team of explorers/scientists thing going on. Get the whole Doom/Latveria thing happening as well. Cosmic rays, powers, boom. Rumors of a "monster in the Baxter Building". The FF become "explorers of the unknown" who spend most of their time, in costume, in space, other dimensions, Negaverse, whatever. Doom has his time travel device, they get flung into the future 50 years later, they meet the Avengers and the rest, stay there, and the rest is history.

In the original stories, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were WWII vets. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch (SWIDT) to have Richards working alongside Tony Stark's dad, or Grimm fighting alongside Captain America, IF you wanted to start tying things together like that.

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger

I don't think a period piece would work at all outside of one of the world wars. Which is why Fox hasn't gone that route. They definitely don't need another origin movie. Fox needs to jump to the middle of their superhero careers with maybe a recap of the origin in the opening credits.

I've been surprised they haven't made an animated Fantastic Four film to keep the rights going. The problem for FF has always been that most of its best storylines would cost a fortune to film. Planet-wide disasters like Galactus bringing in all of the FF's cosmic characters ups the budget considerably. Fox has shown repeatedly they don't want to spend money on this franchise.

Originally Posted by JimRochester

Although mediocre I enjoyed the first two enough but they fell short of expectations.

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger

I don't think a period piece would work at all outside of one of the world wars. Which is why Fox hasn't gone that route. They definitely don't need another origin movie. Fox needs to jump to the middle of their superhero careers with maybe a recap of the origin in the opening credits.

I've been surprised they haven't made an animated Fantastic Four film to keep the rights going. The problem for FF has always been that most of its best storylines would cost a fortune to film. Planet-wide disasters like Galactus bringing in all of the FF's cosmic characters ups the budget considerably. Fox has shown repeatedly they don't want to spend money on this franchise.

Originally Posted by Hokeyboy

They could make it work. Set it in the 60s with a very Mad Men'esque vibe, with a Baxter Building and the whole team of explorers/scientists thing going on. Get the whole Doom/Latveria thing happening as well. Cosmic rays, powers, boom. Rumors of a "monster in the Baxter Building". The FF become "explorers of the unknown" who spend most of their time, in costume, in space, other dimensions, Negaverse, whatever. Doom has his time travel device, they get flung into the future 50 years later, they meet the Avengers and the rest, stay there, and the rest is history.

In the original stories, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were WWII vets. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch (SWIDT) to have Richards working alongside Tony Stark's dad, or Grimm fighting alongside Captain America, IF you wanted to start tying things together like that.

Originally Posted by brayzie

I want to watch this movie and I'm not even a fan of the FF.

Originally Posted by Hokeyboy

They could make it work. Set it in the 60s with a very Mad Men'esque vibe, with a Baxter Building and the whole team of explorers/scientists thing going on. Get the whole Doom/Latveria thing happening as well. Cosmic rays, powers, boom. Rumors of a "monster in the Baxter Building". The FF become "explorers of the unknown" who spend most of their time, in costume, in space, other dimensions, Negaverse, whatever. Doom has his time travel device, they get flung into the future 50 years later, they meet the Avengers and the rest, stay there, and the rest is history.

In the original stories, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were WWII vets...

Originally Posted by Mike86

I think a period piece could work. Have it set in the sixties or so when the space race was hot. They could be part of some SHIELD experiment or whatever. I feel like they're too of that time to be modernized without somehow crossing dimensions into the modern era personally.

Originally Posted by Josh-da-man

Yes. The early space age was a neat, forward-thinking time, and there hasn't been a lot of modern sf set in that era. JFK and the New Frontier. Astronauts as national heroes. Rockets flying through the air to wheel-shaped space stations.

I like the Mad Men angle. Mad Men with Kirby dots and big Kirby machines rendered with modern special effects. Sue Storm in a miniskirt costume with high white boots, sort of Star Trekkish.