{"id":191332,"date":"2021-02-11T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/mcu-fantastic-four-guardians-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:00:02","slug":"the-mcu-fantastic-four-should-take-inspiration-from-another-marvel-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/the-mcu-fantastic-four-should-take-inspiration-from-another-marvel-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The MCU Fantastic Four Should Take Inspiration From Another Marvel Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marvel Studios recently announced that Jon Watts, best known for helming the MCU\u2019s Spider-Man<\/em> movies, has been tapped<\/a> to direct\u00a0the MCU\u00a0Fantastic Four<\/strong><\/em> reboot. This will mark the first time that a Fantastic Four<\/em><\/a> movie has been made because the producer actually wanted to tell their story on the screen and not because the rights option was about to expire. Kevin Feige has made it abundantly clear that he\u2019s as big a Fantastic Four fan as anyone and he\u2019s determined to give Marvel\u2019s first family the big-screen treatment they deserve.<\/p>\n

Hiring Watts is a good start, because the character-driven set pieces and resonant emotional scenes in his Spidey movies have proven he can pull it off, but the filmmaker should look to a different Marvel franchise for inspiration in bringing the Fantastic Four to the screen. Ultimately, the key to making the Fantastic Four characters work on-screen is selling the family dynamic, which James Gunn has nailed with the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Much like the Guardians, the Fantastic Four\u00a0are much more than just a team of superheroes \u2013 they\u2019re a family. But it\u2019s not a traditional nuclear family; it\u2019s a \u201cfound\u201d family. Johnny and Sue are siblings, Sue and Reed are in love, Reed and Ben are childhood friends, and Ben and Johnny have a love\/hate bickering back-and-forth. Just as Gunn has forged strong bonds between all the Guardians throughout the team\u2019s initial two outings, Watts will need to define the relationships between the members of the Fantastic Four in this new reboot. The previous movies have tried to force in a love triangle between Reed, Sue, and Doctor Doom \u2013 which never happened in the comics (although they did have a love triangle with Namor) \u2013 and none of them have been able to make it work. The new Fantastic Four<\/em> movie should keep its story focused on turning the team into a family; if it\u2019s done well, that\u2019ll be interesting enough. The Incredibles<\/em> is a better Fantastic Four<\/em> movie than any of the official ones<\/a> because at its heart, it\u2019s a story about a family.<\/p>\n

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Casting will obviously be crucial to creating this family dynamic. Choosing the right actors for a team movie is a particularly daunting task, because each actor has to not only embody their individual role, but also share tangible on-screen chemistry with all their co-stars. Watts\u2019 Fantastic Four<\/em> movie will be safe in this department, because Marvel\u2019s go-to casting wizard Sarah Finn \u2013 who assembled the Guardians and also cast the rest of the Avengers \u2013 is on the case. Gunn initially rejected Chris Pratt when Finn mentioned his name, because the director just knew him as the Parks and Rec<\/em> guy, but she implored him to give Pratt a chance and the rest is history. Pratt\u2019s lovability and bubbly energy<\/a> anchor the Guardians<\/em> movies, whether he\u2019s sharing palpable romantic tension with Zoe Saldana or playing the straight man opposite Dave Bautista\u2019s deadpan absurdity, and Finn will need to find two actors who are equally fit to anchor the Fantastic Four<\/em> franchise as Reed and Sue. The most popular fan casting is John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, which would certainly check off the chemistry box because they\u2019re actually married.<\/p>\n

Another significant factor in pulling off a successful Fantastic Four<\/em> movie is getting the tone right. Tim Story\u2019s Fantastic Four<\/em> movies were little more than agreeable family-friendly blockbusters, but they came much closer to replicating the fun, lighthearted tone of the comics than the 2015 reboot Fant4stic<\/em>. Josh Trank\u2019s movie, which was heavily reshot and recut by the studio<\/a>, is essentially two movies: in its first half, it tells the characters\u2019 origin story as a Cronenberg-esque body horror movie; then, in its second half, it skips past all the character development with a one-year time jump and morphs into a gritty, Batman Begins<\/em>-influenced, pseudo-realistic comic book movie. Neither of these tones work, because Fantastic Four<\/em> stories don\u2019t usually take themselves seriously \u2013 their powers (and their name) make that obvious. The dark tone of Fant4stic<\/em> was reminiscent of Man of Steel<\/em> and The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em> as a needlessly gritty post-Dark Knight<\/em> update of a traditionally light, optimistic comic book property.<\/p>\n

James Gunn always sticks the landing with the Guardians<\/em> movies\u2019 emotional moments, like the death of the original Groot or Yondu\u2019s sacrifice to save Quill, but the movies don\u2019t take themselves too seriously. There\u2019s always a joke around the corner, even in life-threatening situations, and the characters\u2019 snappy interplay is similar to that of the Always Sunny<\/em> gang<\/a>. The balance of comedy and drama in the Guardians<\/em> movies would be right at home in a Fantastic Four<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n

The Fantastic Four aren\u2019t exactly like the Guardians by any stretch. Deep down, the Guardians are inherently bad people who want to become good. The Fantastic Four are all basically decent people who strive to do the right thing. Johnny\u2019s a troublemaker, but his biggest flaw is that he\u2019s arrogant; Rocket\u2019s biggest flaw is that he\u2019s a murderer. These are very different stories with very different characters. Still, the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> movies might make for a useful tonal jumping-off point for translating the Fantastic Four into the already-established world of the MCU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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