15 Perfect Superhero Casting Choices Wasted On Terrible Comic Book Movies
13. Michael B. Jordan As Johnny Storm - Fant4stic
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Now, if X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a bad film, then director Josh Trank's Fant4stic can only be described as atrocious.
When fans think of the Fantastic Four, the first things that come to mind denote adventure, sci-fi, and colour. Fant4stic had none of that, dulling the inherent high-concept silliness of the original FF books with a grimy blue filter and a story that managed to actually be a downgrade on the one seen in 2005. It was that bad.
However, much like those earlier films, it wasn't completely irredeemable. Yes there were fewer redeeming features, but one thing the film got right was the character of Johnny Storm, who was portrayed brilliantly by Michael B. Jordan.
Jordan has since gone on to wow audiences with turns in the Rocky franchise and in Black Panther, but had Fant4stic actually delivered on a genuinely enjoyable story, he could've been this generation's Human Torch.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
