Now that Fox has found its cast for The Fantastic Four reboot, we’re starting to get a few official comments from those involved with the latest big screen iteration of Marvel’s First Family. Last week, Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) spoke about the controversy surrounding his casting as Johnny Storm / The Human Torch [see here], and now IGN has managed to get a few words from Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) about what appealed to him about the role of Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in the Josh Trank-directed superhero ensemble:
“Well, for me I didn’t grow up really as a comic book kid necessarily,” says Teller. “Fantastic Four is my dad’s favorite superhero comic. And so for me I guess what attracted me originally was Josh Trank. I think Josh Trank is a very creative, inventive guy. You look at Chronicle, you look at what he did for that budget and just how he told the story was really well done. I want to chase directors at this point, and then the cast kind of came together — Michael B. (Jordan), Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell — I was very excited.”
“I was joking around about a year ago, ‘I guess I’ll be playing a superhero soon’ because that’s just the world that we’re in, but I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.”
The Fantastic Four is set to go into production later this month ahead of a release on June 19th 2015.
Originally published March 9, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
