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Grahame-Smith Rewriting Fantastic Four
From Abe Lincoln to Reed Richards?

27 February 2013  |  Written by James White  |  Source: The Hollywood Reporter


Jut a few days ago, we learned that X-Men: First Class co-writer/director Matthew Vaughn was joining the Fantastic Four reboot as a producer to help Marvel-Fox overseer Mark Millar and director Josh Trank on development. Now comes word that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith has polished the script.

News that Grahame-Smith, who kicked off his career with genre mash novel Pride And Prejudice And Zombies (which is still stuck in movie development hell) and parlayed that into adapting the revisionist Abe Lincoln tale and working on Dark Shadows for Tim Burton, has signed on may be welcomed less warmly than that of Vaughn, particularly as the eventual Vampire Hunter film didn’t exactly turn out well. Still, let's hope that his clear love of genre cinema translates into a great script this time.

The Hollywood Reporter is also hearing that the film will be taking a more grounded approach to Mr Fantastic, Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and the Thing. Whether that also means darker and edgier is anyone’s guess at this point, but we doubt they’ll push too far in that direction, as the Fantastic Four have always been a more light-hearted superhero team.

There’s still no word on casting, but this is clearly a priority for Fox (and not just so that it can retain the rights to the characters). So what do you think? Is it possible to be grounded when one of you stretches like rubber, another is made out of rock and a third bursts into flame regularly? Let us know below.


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Comedy Four?
Why do cretins like Empire keep going on about F.F being "light hearted"etc? What rubbish! The early FF is full of angst and danger and threat of world staggering proportions. The director of the first two was an imbecile who couldn't direct his way out of a wet paper bag. He reduced Galactus (possibly the most iconic villain in all comic books) to a cloud for God's sake. What a moron. The films were cheap looking, had unimaginative effects and completely wasted the Silver Surfer, spoi More

Posted by ericcoyle at 13:04 on 27 February 2013 | Report This Post

Nooooo.
No Seth, don't bother with this. Crack on with Beetlejuice 2! More

Posted by tallaght24 at 07:17 on 27 February 2013 | Report This Post

Just a polish
Eh, if you actually read the HR article it's just a polish not a rewrite. So, FF won't suck. No real story here. If he was rewriting it, then I'd be worried. More

Posted by Blergy at 06:19 on 27 February 2013 | Report This Post


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