Entertainment Weekly is not making things easy right now as their Summer Preview Issue is out tomorrow because they have been posting some of the issue's content to their website today. Of course a big focus of their issue is this summer's Marvel movies.
One of those Marvel films is so far under-the-radar that most fans will see it but the excitement level barely has a pulse. FANTASTIC FOUR is getting the reboot treatment on August 7 and not much is known about the reboot outside of its first teaser trailer.
Entertainment Weekly has opened the door of information on FANTASTIC FOUR so, for those who don't want to know, here's your SPOILER ALERT for what's ahead.
Continue reading at your own risk because you've been warned.
On superpowers being more of a disability:
Turns out levitating hurts. On this humid day on the Baton Rouge, La., set of Fantastic Four, the psychically gifted Sue Storm (Kate Mara) is about to catch some major air. After a cosmic accident has rendered Sue and her three pals superpowerful (more on that later), the group is quarantined in a secret government facility. For this scene, in which Sue struggles to master her ability to float (she can also turn invisible and project force fields), Mara stands on a crane and makes faces usually reserved for squats or dead lifts. “Move your knees around,” yells director Josh Trank from below. “It’s painful! It’s painful!” In most comic-book adaptations, superpowers are mainly just supercool. In the new Four, they feel more like a disability. “It’s not easy at all,” Mara says. “It’s exhausting.”
"I just kinda jumped to ‘body horror’ in my head," Trank said. "This movie is really viewing [superpowers] as a curse."
“It’s as if you got into a car accident,” Mara says, “and a part of you is different for the rest of your life.”
On the tone of the reboot:
Trank describes the tone of the film as a cross between Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton—what he calls “Dark Amblin.” To help him achieve that, the studio paired him with writer-producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past). Trank told Kinberg he had two ambitions. First, the film had to feel scary and very real, more like a horror movie than a superhero flick. And second, it ultimately had to be a coming-of-age story. “Part of defining yourself,” Kinberg explains, “is that moment when you go from being dependent to being in control of your destiny.”
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