Damed

Starts shooting in August.

Spoilers be here, and in the link:




http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060601k.php

Giles

I'll be waiting with baited breath...

kgrogers1979

Fok

would be cool if they had cross overs to other movies, ie superman showing up.

kgrogers1979

Uh, Superman is a DC Comics character. Fantastic Four is Marvel Comics. That would be a very unlikely team-up. If Fantastic Four teams up with anyone, it would be the X-men, Avengers, or Spiderman.

tdilia

There have been crossovers before in comics. X-Men & Teen Titans, Spiderman & Superman, Batman & Spawn, Batman & Grendel, Batman & Judge Dread, Superman vs. Alien, Batman vs. Predator, to name a few. FF & Superman I doubt because FF belongs to Fox and Superman is WB, Spiderman is Sony. X-Men, maybe cause that is Fox, so is Daredevil. I don't think it matters if one superhero is from DC the other is from Marvel, I don't see Sony & WB getting together, or Fox & Sony, etc.

Jackskeleton

So they learned from X-men that if they pick a release date less than a year ahead and shoot around that they can easily make plenty of cash. I'm actually surprised they aren't trying to release it before Spider-man 3 just for shits and giggles.

Also,

kvrdave

Have a certs. I'll be waited with bated breath.

HN

grab a book. i'll be weighted with bated breath.

kvrdave

CURSES!!!

maingon

cant wait I really liked the first one

Giles

oops - damn typo...

DrRingDing

Uh... Looked at any movie posters recently? Movie studios are increasingly working together. Titanic being the most notable example. They usually cofinance with distribution agreements differing - for Titanic, Paramount got U.S. distrib rights and Fox got int'l distrib rights. (It might've been the other way around, too, from what I remember... )
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BLANK

I just hope Tim Story will be directing. He is to the Fantastic Four as Bryan Singer was to the X-Men. Hopefully, he will not leave to do Batman 6.

clemente

Doing a crossover of two franchises is only an option when both are dead - or nealy dead, and usually the crossover just kills them both.

Co-financing isn't a creative endevour, just a way to spread the costs around and minimize financial liabilities.

Draven

Is Jessica Alba in it? Then I'll see it.

The first was pretty crappy but she overrides a great deal of the badness.

calhoun07

Does Jessica Alba get nekkid in it and take it in various positions? Then I'll see it.

meritocracy

That's essentially the only way Fox could possibly get me to cough up the cash to see this.

Draven

Hell, I'd see it twice.

DRG

You're confusing this with the adult film The Fantastic Whore.

toddly6666

If they are marketing these FF4 movies as more family-oriented, then the Silver Surfer/Galactus storyline is excellent for that purpose, since both Silver Surfer and Galactus aren't really that bad - Silver Surfer serves his master looking for planets, but will become the hero when he realizes that the Earth is not the edible kind once he discovers that Earthlings aren't all that bad. And Galactus, as in the comic, is not really good or evil, he's just trying to survive. So he may whoop some ass in the beginning but the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer will convince him to eventually leave Earth alone...If the movie had a good director and good story, it could actually be like a MIYAZAKI film - the villains aren't really that bad and no one dies... and the theme is about preserving life and nature....But I don't think Tim Story's gonna go that route...

Zodiac_Speaking

first movie was vastly disappointing on all levels except for the Thing. Hope they get this one better but it sounds awesome.

Duh Vuh Duh

So does this mean we are going to have to wait until next year to get a damn double disc of the first movie in R1?

toddly6666

We can also thank god for the existence of THE INCREDIBLES because due to the end of that movie, it's most likely that FF4 sequels will not use the lame villain, the MOLEMAN...

It would also be nice to throw in Impossible Man (maybe as a CGI character) and the skrulls too into the FF4 sequels...

paradicelost

And that ended very badly. I worked at a National Amusements theater(NA is the company that owns Viacom, who owns Paramount), and we were very lucky to even get really big Fox releases. And when we did, it was for a limited time, and a lot of other little rules came with it. We weren't allowed to have them in the Director's hall and a lot of other asinine restrictions. And I believe that the Fox Searchlight stuff was completely off-limits. From what i was told about some people who were really high in the company that were there for our opening, it had to do with Titanic and Fox believing they should have had more profits. I have no idea the validity of all that, but i do know it was only had strict restrictions on Fox films.
I didn't really mind the first F4. I didn't start reading the book till Heroes Reborn, and the film wasn't too far off. I mean there were differences, but a lot of things were there. Ben's anger, Johnny's arrogance, Victor's jealously. I thought the ending was somewhat abrupt, and again the only origin I ever read was the reborn stuff, so i don't know how they did with Doom. In the comic he just shows up as Dr. Doom, but i'm not sure how they did it 40 years ago.
I'd really wanted a sequel for this one since we really didn't get too much of the hero's in the first one. I've always liked Silver Surfer as well, except when kicked the Green Lantern's butt in that cross over.