10 New Films You Didn't Expect From Dead Movie Franchises (That Look Terrible)

2. The Fantastic Four

FF2 On the one hand this may not be overly surprising, with the average wait between superhero reboots being less than a decade, but when we€™re dealing with the original Marvel super team odds seem against them. You can level as much (admittedly deserved) hate against the duo of naughties films, but the real underlying problem with the series is that The Fantastic Four are an incredibly archaic idea. You can update the origin however you want to account for the unbelievable (read; false) science, but the fact remains that there€™s nothing the Fantastic Four does that Marvel hasn't already been done better on screen; X-Men has the superheroes in the real world slant, Spider-Man the ordinary man receiving powers and The Avengers brought a slice of self-aware fun to the table. They may have provided strong inspiration for everything that came after, but any film attempt will be in a similar vein to John Carter; derivative and uninteresting beyond a view into the past. The recent furore of the casting of black actor Michael B. Jordan as The Human Torch hints at a more character based approach, but even Laurence Olivier as Reed Richards couldn€™t save this reboot.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.