The report of a different director for the reshoots is another case of viscous rumor that got circulated by some unknown party on comic book forums.
As filming wound toward an unhappy close, the studio and producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker engaged in a last-minute scramble to come up with an ending. With some of the cast not fully available at that point and Kinberg juggling X-Men: Apocalypse and Star Wars, a lot of material was shot with doubles and the production moved to Los Angeles to film scenes with Teller against a green screen. "It was chaos," says a crewmember, adding that Trank was still in attendance "but was neutralized by a committee." Another source says the studio pulled together "a dream team," including writer and World War Z veteran Drew Goddard, to rescue the movie. Whether the final version of the film is better or worse than what Trank put together is a matter of opinion, of course, but the consensus, clearly, is that neither was good.
As much as I don't think the movies have to really stick to the comics versions of the characters, the only FF film to really get Doom right was the Roger Corman one.
At first a non-white, not blonde Johnny was a bit off putting but I figure there are so many versions of these characters in the comics from other dimensions and whatnot - why not.
Doesn't make the movie any better but not a big a deal as I thought it would be.
The fact that they aren't blood related makes a big difference though.
Also a lot of so call fans don't realize how young everyone is suppose to be in either origin. In the 616 FF Johnny was 16 when he went into space. Sue fell for a young Reed when he rented a room at her house when he was in college when she was 13! The 2005 introduced an older cast so when they went back to a more age appropriate cast "oh you are trying to get the YA crowd".
Reed and Ben were originally World War 2 combat vets -- Reed had fought behind the lines with Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos
(by the 1960's, Col. Nick Fury with the CIA -- soon to be recruited by Tony Stark to run S.H.I.E.L.D. so Stark didn't have to).
In 1962, 20 years after their combat service, Reed and Ben were at LEAST in their late 30's.
(Yeah, Johnny was a teen punk hotrodder)
Johnny was definitely in high school, as his solo stories were there. He went to college for a while at some point before they started worrying about them not aging. I want to say something happened to de-age them at some point but my memory is spotty at best. Ultimate versions were all young though.
Reed and Ben were originally World War 2 combat vets -- Reed had fought behind the lines with Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos
(by the 1960's, Col. Nick Fury with the CIA -- soon to be recruited by Tony Stark to run S.H.I.E.L.D. so Stark didn't have to).
In 1962, 20 years after their combat service, Reed and Ben were at LEAST in their late 30's.
(Yeah, Johnny was a teen punk hotrodder)
But just as Superboy's time kept moving forward as Superman did (Superboy, Superman and Superbaby all had a story with JFK in 1963), in the 90's or something Reed and Ben were now Vietnam vets or some other war that was more recent. Actually most heroes had that happen, since they really never age in comic books. The only Marvel heroes who are forever tied to WW2 are Cap, Namor and the original Torch.
Yes, my point was that at inception Reed and Ben were in their late 30's or older. That was how the characters started their adventures, after which they stayed the same ages until Kirby left and they eventually got silly writers.
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