Check out these fab new stills of the Fantastic Four as released this week by Empire Magazine including a treat for all you Divergent fans
Miles Teller as Reid Richards
Kate Mara as Sue Storm
Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm
Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm
Director Josh Trank has also addressed the subject of Johnny and Sue Storm’s family being mixed race. In an interview with Collider.com Trank said
“I had just come off working with Michael B. Jordan and his character, Steve, in Chronicle had a lot of similar characteristics to Johnny Storm. And I thought it would be interesting to take the family dynamic of the Storms, which is brother and sister, and bring that more into the 21st century in terms of what we consider the norm. I have mixed family in my own family and it’s something that isn’t out of the ordinary anymore but we don’t really see it portrayed in the casual reality of the movies. That’s something I felt that would be interesting and challenging, to have mixed siblings.”
He is also quoted as having said that he wants to make his version of Fantastic Four less cartoonish than previous incarnations. For me the jury is still out on this one, I loved the “cartoonish” nature of the Jessica Alba/Chris Evans movies, but I am more than happy to be turned around on the subject.
