As for the reboot, I'm ok with it. But I would rather Fox just give up on it and hand them back to Marvel.
Yep, same here.
Unfortunately, this is likely to be another half-hearted venture just to retain the rights and make some profits as safely and efficiently as a lousy formulaic machine can spew out.
As for Doom in the previous attempts... GOOD GRIEF!!!
Doom is basically Vader before Vader! Flashier... more comicbooky! How could anyone think it a good idea to turn Doom into more of a WB/CW teenager tv show camp villain?? The rest of the first movie was tolerable (lack of depth, quality, charisma and chemistry [minus Johnny Storm on those two counts] aside), the lousy portrayal/concept of Doom
destroyed that movie for me (and I am not even a big comicbook reader... although I DO love my TPB collection of the original FF books!!).
I never imagined that they could get such a great character so very wrong (and, honestly, I didn't even fully mind the different origin... although, I think it does take away from just how diabolical and devoted he is).
Oh, that just reminded me... before the first movie came out, I felt that Doom should
not be the featured villain. I felt like it should have been the Skrulls and/or a host of other inter-dimensional and/or extra-terrestrial invaders all piling on top of things at once... something big, bad and absolutely fantastically crazy... THEN introduce DOOM at the end and let that lead into the second movie.
Doom just seemed, to me, to be a better
you thought that was bad... now meet Dr. Doom!! and then, of course, you could pull the same thing after that with Gallactus... and so on.
By saving Doom for the sequel, you can build up his background more without having to cram it into everyone else's origin story in the first one.
But... whatever!
We'll see... But, yeah... I am not really counting on any other studios to deliver anything like what the Marvel Studios are capable of.
We lucked out with Sony going with Sam Raimi, but I don't count on such things being the norm.