According to a Reddit user, 20th Century Fox has reached out to people in his community to alert them to the fact that his apartment building is being considered as an exterior location for use in the upcoming Fantastic 4 film from Chronicle director Josh Trank. Shooting, they say, would begin in March 2014.But maybe not. Other Reddit users were quick to point out that the letter could be a scam from somebody attempting to gain access to the property.”Hey sorry to do the standard Reddit bubble burst, but I’m in the industry and this just isn’t how scouting is done,” another user responded shortly after the purported request was posted. “It is, however, a common house robbing technique.”Other users disputed this, including some who also claimed to work in the film industry, but a number of other things stuck out at users as warning flags in the original letter.They point to a number of typos and strange formatting issues that seem unlikely to have gotten past somebody working on behalf of a major motion picture studio; if something like this is probably a form letter, they note, wouldn’t that form letter have been copy-edited the first time out of the gate? Besides typos, things like capitalizing the phrase “motion picture” seems an unlikely choice for Fox–and thus far, promotional materials and press coverage have referred to the film as “Fantastic Four,” not “Fantastic 4.” The first pair of films used the numeral instead of the word and there had been a sense among the entertainment press that not doing so would give them an easy way to differentiate the two franchises. The letter uses “Fantastic 4” instead.
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