10 Dead Comic Book Movies That Need To Be Revived
3. Fantastic Four - Peyton Reed
Never have the Fantastic Four looked less fantastic. Josh Trank's 2015 film Fantastic Four was an absolute disaster, picking up a bunch of Golden Raspberry Awards like Worst Director and Worst Picture. That's not to mention the fact that critics and audiences despised it too.
Where next, then, for the super quartet? Enter Peyton Reed, the director behind 2015's Ant-Man. He was originally keen to helm the Fantastic Four's translation to the big screen back in the early 2000s. He envisioned the film to be something like A Hard Day's Night (a comedy film starring The Beatles) but with superheroes.
According to Reed, the most interesting thing about the Fantastic Four is the fact that they're part of the cultural landscape: their identities are not hidden, and being a hero is something of a day job to them.
With Trank tanking the Fantastic Four with his bland, ugly CGI-laden adaptation, it'd be great to see Reed - who proved himself a solid superhero director through Ant-Man - take a stab at bringing the gang back from the brink. Ant-Man's tone is the sort of thing Fantastic Four needs, not whatever the hell FANT4STIC had.