One thing is for sure the Fantastic Four story being told in Fox’s upcoming reboot appears to be vastly different than the previous movies. In an interview with Collider, Toby Kebbell revealed that Doctor Doom has a different origin in the Fantastic Four reboot, and his last name isn’t even Doom.
In what Kebbell describes as a mild change, he said, “He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours—I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m “Doom”.
The more I hear about this 'other' Fantastic Four movie the less I want to see it. Okay, make a science fiction movie. Make a kick ass one about some good kids and bad kids who get super powers and end up fighting against each other. That movie I would see.
However, if you are going to CALL something the Fantastic Four, I want the characters and stories and background that I have come to know and love over the past 50 years. Don't mess with what isn't broken. Sony did a pretty good series of Spider-Man movies. Just because they screwed the pooch on the last two Fantastic Four movies doesn't mean you have to strip down the property and get rid of everything that made the FF cool in the first place.
This newest film has such a ridiculously high bar to get over that I can't imagine it becoming anything less than an industry punch-line. Much like the Roger Corman version of the Fantastic Four - something that will never be spoken of again in polite company.
Doomed is a great documentary about Roger Corman and his style of filmmaking.
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I'm just surprised they're doing Doom again. Mole Man needs love too!
Corman's Fantastic Four was Oscar-worthy compared to the impending trainwreck that this new "twist" is putting on Marvel's First Family.
As you say it's now (if all these recent quotes are accurate) so far from the comic book Fantastic Four that it is its own sci-fi film, with absolutely nothing to do with the source material.
This latest "revelation" is a kick in the teeth to long-time FF fans and the legacy of Stan and Jack. At least Corman's FF had a decent (if low-budget) Dr Doom and more recent films at least took a stab - all be it quite a way off - at doing a 'decent' Doom.
Keep an open mind, Cal -- maybe you'll end up liking this Doom even better? *ducks*
This movie keeps sounds worse and worse more I hear about it.
We just posted on how Disney has "screwed-up" the storylines of the Marvel characters.... at least they do Not own DC Comics...
Oh Wilma, you know me too well. I get a bit crazy when people mess up DOOM. How can you do that to THE most iconic comic book villain of all time? Just look at his armor. It has been the same since the 1960s and needs NO update. Work around it. Like you have to work around their powers and the crazy world they live in. You have to set the stories in a very UNREAL world for it to all work. Something on the edge of space or the microverse. NOT Earth.
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