Fantastic Four Reboot Movie: 10 Reasons To Be Excited

2. Diversity In Superhero Movies

Michael B. Jordan has been cast as Johnny Storm, who is white in the comics, and the reaction has ranged from indefensible to legitimately curious as to why Fox didn't cast a black actress to play Johnny's sister, The Invisible Woman. Were two black superheroes in a single film too much for the executives? We can hope that it's because the best actors who auditioned were cast for both roles. Fox has re-imagined the Storms as an interracial family, in which Johnny and Sue may be half-siblings or step-siblings or perhaps one or both will be adopted. It's hardly the most radical step to take given one of them can turn invisible and one of them can set himself on fire and fly, and as already stated, the Fantastic Four is about family, and not just one white family with superpowers. Whether you think that Fox has shied away from a chance to cast two black actors instead of one or are perplexed by the outrage altogether, at least the casting has started to raise questions about the dearth of black superheroes in a cinematic landscape now populated by comic book films. That can only be a good thing.