They’re terrifying and unbearable, with Fantastic Four suddenly shifting into a body-horror dilemma instead of a conventional superhero story.
Continuing a conversation he started with Chronicle, Trank posits that the transformations undergone by the Fantastic Four aren’t wondrous and magical. Here’s where Trank’s Fantastic Four gets really interesting. Even casual fans know that an predestined journey to a realm now known as Planet Zero will bless (and curse) Doom and the four Fantastic members with their extraordinary powers. Reed’s scientific breakthroughs allow Storm’s team to finally complete Doom’s preliminary attempts at interdimensional travel. Reed (now played by Miles Teller) is offered a scholarship and teamed with the equally intelligent Sue Storm (Kate Mara), Franklin’s adopted daughter, on an experimental venture initially launched by Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell). Cathey), head of the Baxter Foundation research facility. Pulling, instead, from the Ultimate line of Fantastic Four comics – a modernized retelling of the super-team’s origins – Trank wisely begins with a young Reed Richards (Owen Judge), an avid inventor whose high school Science Fair project on teleportation catches the eye of Dr. This is a palate cleanser, and one that establishes a darker Fantastic Four universe I’m honestly hopeful we can continue to explore. And yet, I’d argue that a complete slate wipe is necessary for Trank’s Fantastic Four, because he’s coming at the team from a completely different angle than was utilized in Tim Story’s two family-friendly, jokey and overtly campy FF movies from the mid-2000s. It is a true origin story, and that fact alone may frustrate audiences who are tired of returning to square one every time we’re reintroduced to a superhero or comic book team who we’ve seen on screen before. Fantastic Four is an appetizer, teasing a meal that doesn’t actually come.
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