No more Fantastic Four Movies? Thank Galactus...
Chris Evans, the guy who played The Human Torch in the two god-awful Fantastic Four movies, is telling MTV news that he doesn't think there will be another -- and that he's ready to be done with it.
I think we're all ready to be done with it.
I love The Fantastic Four. And I think they could, as Spider-Man proved in the first and second films, translate to the screen in a way that would thrill both adults and children. A solid concept always can. But they've screwed the pooch twice on this one and if there are going to be any others they need to do what Batman (and now The Hulk) are doing and just pull a full on reboot, as though the first two never happened.
Which is essentially what Evans is saying when he admits to MTV that, "I think that if [FF2] does okay and people respond with the appreciation of a more serious tone, hopefully [with] the third one we can inch closer to a legitimate cast and a legitimate film."
Saying that your first two movies failed to have a legitimate cast that made up a legitimate film does sound like straight shooting -- and has Clooney proved with his Batman film, sometimes you just have to admit something sucked to get past it and do better work. But it also sounds like a guy who knows this train ain't going back there.