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Josh Trank received “heavy pushback” for wanting to cast a black actress as Sue Storm in Fantastic Four

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For those who don’t remember, 2015’s Fantastic Four saw major controversy before its release when the announcement of Michael B. Jordan’s casting as Johnny Storm was revealed. At the time, there was some in the online trolling community who found this upsetting as the Human Torch is portrayed as a white character in the comics. […]

Josh Trank says he felt “castrated” during Fantastic Four’s enforced reshoots

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Some five years on from the disastrous release of 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot, Chronicle helmer Josh Trank returns this week with his third movie, the Tom Hardy-headlined Al Capone biopic Capone. During the press tour for Capone, Trank has been chatting about a couple of his unrealised projects in his R-rated Venom pitch […]

Neal Adams and Mark Waid join forces for Fantastic Four: Antithesis

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Two comic book powerhouses are joining forces this August as Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Waid teams up with legendary artist Neal Adams for Fantastic Four: Antithesis, a new limited series which will pit the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer and Galactus against a brand new nemesis who is “guaranteed to send shockwaves throughout all of […]

Rumour: Marvel has met with Joss Whedon about Fantastic Four

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Having reacquired the rights to the characters as part of Disney’s Fox acquisition, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige confirmed at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con International that the Fantastic Four will be making their debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at some point during Phase Five, and now if a rumour is to be believed, […]

Comic Book Preview – Marvels Snapshots: Fantastic Four #1

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Marvels Snapshots: Fantastic Four #1 is out this Wednesday, and we’ve got a preview of the issue for you here; check it out… Our tour through Marvel history continues, showcasing Marvel’s greatest characters from the Golden Age to today, all through the eyes of ordinary people! This time, writers Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer (Beasts […]

Kate Mara pokes fun at Fantastic Four’s poor box office

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Having already admitted that she hasn’t seen Josh Trank’s maligned adaptation of Fantastic Four, Kate Mara has now started to poke fun at the comic book movie. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight to promote her latest film The Martian, Mara joked about the poor box office takings of Fantastic Four by sarcastically saying the movie, “was […]

Kate Mara hasn’t seen Fantastic Four yet, says Josh Trank’s tweet was “highly disappointing”

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Given that its barely scraped $150 million at the global box office, it seems that plenty of people decided to skip 20th Century Fox’s superhero reboot Fantastic Four, and that even extends to the cast, with Kate Mara revealing she’s yet to see the final product herself. “No, [I haven’t seen it] but I will […]

Looking Back on the Summer Blockbusters of 2015

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Matthew Lee takes a look back at the summer blockbusters of 2015… Last year, Forbes reported that last summer’s box office was down by a whopping $1.223 billion. Hollywood executives were undoubtedly shitting themselves. This was significantly more problematic considering last year’s summer held a number great critical surprises; Guardians of the Galaxy was a […]

Hulkling takes the throne in Marvel’s Empyre #1 variant cover

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With the huge Avengers and Fantastic Four epic Empyre set to get underway this April, Marvel has unveiled a variant cover for the first issue of the event series from artist Jamie McKelvie, which sees the character of Hulking taking the throne of the new Kree/Skrull alliance; check it out here… With a Skrull soldier […]

John Krasinski still jokes about Chris Evans taking Captain America role from him

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John Krasinski, star of A Quiet Place and Jack Ryan, says he still jokes about Chris Evans taking the Captain America role from him. In one of the most interesting what-ifs in MCU casting, former star of The Office, John Krasinski, was once up for the role of Captain America, only to lose out to […]