Fantastic Four Reboot to Be More "Gritty and Realistic" Than Previous Incarnation

While the last pair of Fantastic Four movies embraced the camp of the superhero genre in a way [...]

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While the last pair of Fantastic Four movies embraced the camp of the superhero genre in a way few movies have in the post-Batman and Robin era, a report at HitFix says that won't be the case with Josh Trank's planned reboot, which is expected to go in front of cameras starting this month or early next. Filling in for director Bryan Singer at WonderCon yesterday, X-Men: Days of Future Past writer/producer Simon Kinberg -- who is also producing Fantastic Four -- denied rumors or delays or recasting and said that production will begin in earnest in two weeks or so. "As Singer created with the original X-Men movies, Christopher Nolan created with the Dark Knight movies, Jon Favreau and Marvel created with the Iron Man movies, all the best superhero franchises - Sam Raimi did it with with Spider-Man - they create a tone and that is the thing that defines them," Kinberg said. "It's not the stories that differentiate them from each other. Sometimes the characterizations aren't that distinct. It's that the tone is different and in some ways [that's because of the] lessons learned from the original Fantastic Four movies, but also because of Josh Trank's natural instinct for more realism, for more of a dramatic approach to things. This will definitely be a more realistic, a more gritty, grounded telling of the Fantastic Four." Casting has, thus far, been the biggest of the fanboy complaints about the movie -- but rumors that there would be changes to the characters' origins and the comics' tone have also been topics for conversation and consternation. The film is expected in theaters in March 2015.

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