Looks like Marvel’s first family is back! The long awaited reboot of The Fantastic Four finally shows off what Fox has been keeping under wraps all this time. The internet was full of rumors from Fox cancelling The Fantastic Four to massive re-shoots because the footage was so bad. Now everyone can take a deep breath and relax for three reasons:
1 – this is just a teaster trailer
2- the movie isn’t out until August.
3 – see reasons 1 & 2
This time around we’ve got some changes to the superhero quartet: Johnny Storm (Michael B Jordan) and Sue Storm (Kate Mara) coming from a blended family – Sue is adopted. One of 2014’s breakout stars Miles Teller will be playing Reed Richards and Jamie Bell rounds out the team as Ben Grimm.
Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) will serve as the movies big baddie playing the Fantastic Four’s arch nemesis Victor Domashev aka Victor von Doom aka Doctor. Doom.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Change is Coming 8-7-15