re: F4 reboot-Internet Famous thread.UPDATE-8/11 Kinberg:"No crossover,tricky IP"

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Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg Talk THE FANTASTIC FOUR; Plus First Images From Set

~Trank says they “consciously decided to not release anything official” until now.

~In terms of plot and story, Trank was guarded but did say, “This is a modern telling of how these four iconic characters came together and came to be.”

~Trank revealed that renowned composer Philip Glass is scoring the movie with Marco Beltrami.

~The film recently did a few days of additional photography and it was to film some bits and pieces. Nothing major. They weren’t filming some huge new ending.

~The original shoot was seventy-two days and they were on-schedule and on-budget.

~The film is heavily influenced by David Cronenberg and Trank mentioned that Scanners and The Fly were big influences on the look of the film.

~The film is an origin story and there are influences of what Kirby and Stan were doing in the 60’s all the way up into the present day.
fantastic-four-comics. The Ultimates was also an influence and a lot of the science specifics are there. They told me a lot of the means of transformation they took from the books.

~Trank’s first cut of the film was around 2 hours and 10 minutes. He said the final film will probably be between 2 hours and 2 hours and 20 minutes.

~Kinberg says there is an Easter egg in the teaser trailer.

~They are very influenced by what Marvel has been doing regarding combined universes. Saying that, they admit it’s tricky to combine X-Men and FF because the X-Men films so far don’t acknowledge the Fantastic Four and the Fantastic Four takes place essentially in the same time period as the modern day X-Men movies.

~Kinberg does confirm that there is a different approach to the Marvel movies at Fox than when they started making Marvel films at the studio. “There is an intent and want to be a part of a larger fabric and tapestry the way Marvel has done so brilliantly.”

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