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But if you want to get a more in depth read on the Fantastic Four reboot keep reading:

Kate Mara recently talked with IGN to promote her role in Transcendence that stars herself, Johnny Depp & Morgan Freeman. But the interviewer was more interested in her upcoming role in the Fantastic Four reboot.

When asked about the role, the story, the feel of the reboot, she said it will “be more grounded” and that she hasn’t been fitted for a costume yet, and since filming starts in just over a week, she’s not sure if they’re going to have costumes at all… Check it out:

While doing promotion for X-Men: Days Of Future Past, producer Simon Kinberg also talked about producing the reboot for the Fantastic Four, and said as well that it’ll be more “grounded”, more realistic, and will probably be compared to Chronicle and Spider-Man (2002). He also let slip some potential spoilers including that they will never be referred to as the Fantastic Four, at least not in the reboot. But maybe the sequel… Yea, that’s how confident 20th Century Fox is in the reboot, they’ve already staked out a slot for the sequel, before the reboot is even started filming. Kinberg was asked about the possibility of an X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover and responded that “anything was possible”, but hinted that the two teams exist in pretty different universes… and added that if mutants existed in the Fantastic Four universe, the FF wouldn’t be that fantastic…

When prompted to give more information on the Fantastic Four, Kinberg said:

“This Fantastic Four movie is in some ways a reboot. In other ways it’s a standalone origin story. By the end of the movie, we don’t call them the Fantastic Four. They are not celebrity superheroes. The tone of the movie is much more grounded, real and gritty; more in the direction of Chronicle then in the direction of the original Fantastic Four movies. It is really about how four, and in some ways five – with Victor von Doom, how five people go from being normal people in the world to being transformed when it first happens to something abnormal and then by the end sort of super human.”

You can watch his full interview here:

When he did an interview with Den Of Geek, Kinberg said this:

“We’re definitely telling a younger story that the original films did… They’re older than high school, but they’re not quite grown into the world. If anything, this is a coming of age story. It depends on what books you look at. There are some, like the Ultimate books, that tell this story. So it is an origin story of the Fantastic Four, and it does follow them before they really know what a superhero is… There is archetypal imagery of how they get their powers, for sure, and it does involve some sort of scientific travel.”

And then said this to Crave Online:

“It’s a much more grounded, gritty, realistic movie than the last couple movies. If I had to say, the tone of it would be somewhere on the spectrum between Spider-Man and Chronicle. The other movies were even further on the spectrum of being goofy and fun than Spider-Man – Raimi Spider-Man, yeah, not Amazing Spider-Man. Josh Trank’s instincts are to be as realistic and grounded and real with this stuff as possible. In many ways I would say it’s definitely more of a drama than comedy. It’s still in the direction of Spider-Man. It’s not like Dark Knight. And even Chronicle has a lot of fun in it. We’re treating this as the origin of the Fantastic Four so in future movies you’d have them on sort of splashier adventures to some extent but in this one we tried to ground the science as much as possible and make it feel like it could take place in our world before it cantilevers into other worlds.”

What do you guys think? Will the Fantastic Four reboot even be worth the wait? Should they change the story before it’s too late?

Let us know below!

4/21/2014 – 2:35 pm

by James