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Lord_Stewie · 08-20-2009, 01:35 PM

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In the past decade comic book-inspired movies have become the new American western. Each year there are at least half a dozen comic-to-film adaptations released in one form or another. While a number of them have become huge international successes, some have been among the worst films in the past ten years. Perhaps the biggest offender of them all is the Fantastic Four.

Summer 2007 saw the release of the second Fantastic Four movie, the Rise of the Silver Surfer. After the disappointing showing of the first film, which went on to gross more than a hundred million in the US, there was little reason why a second movie should have been made as most fans and virtually all critics despised the mockery that was Marvel’s first family. Thankfully, it looks like fans won’t have to suffer through a third film.

Rise of the Silver Surfer would make a couple million less than the first film and, while it was better than the previous outing, it still was little more then a test platform for a potential Silver Surfer solo movie.

While no official word has been given yet by either 20th Century Fox or Marvel, in an interview with MTV, Chris Evens who played Johnny Storm, AKA the Human Torch in both Fantastic Four movies said, “I’m pretty sure we won’t do [another] one” and “Fantastic Four. I’m assuming that one is a closed book.”

Despite the fact that two of the film’s stars have expressed their desire to make a third, it doesn’t seem likely now that a third Fantastic Four is in the cards as both 20th Century Fox and Marvel have already signed off on a Silver Surfer spinoff that is going to be written by comic book writer and creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski.

Marvel has already stated that, the Silver Surfer spinoff movie, which had already been rumored since early 2000, will focus on the origin of the Surfer and the monstrous cosmic being, Galactus, who disappointed legions of fans in Fantastic Four as he appeared only in shadow within a massive space-born cloud of gas.

There is no release date announced yet of when we can expect to see the first Silver Surfer movie or if Laurence Fishburne, who voiced the Surfer in last summer’s Fantastic Four 2, is going to return. It is also not out of the question that the Fantastic Four as a whole team or just a few members won’t make cameos in upcoming Marvel movies.

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Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios Vice President spoke to Wizard magazine about the coming Silver Surfer movie being the next big project...
Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios Vice President spoke to Wizard magazine about the coming Silver Surfer movie being the next big project...

"You're going to start hearing a lot about Silver Surfer," he promises. "It'll be our next big project with Fox after 'Fantastic Four.' We're excited about jumping into it for the same reasons every college kid in the '60s and '70s was reading it. It's a hard-core science fiction, philosophical, adventure movie. Silver Surfer's going to kick some ass in the next two or three years."

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SEPT. 24TH.

SILVER SURFER CONFIRMED

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The Variety source article also mentions in passing that Fox is “quietly developing a new version of Daredevil and working on a Silver Surfer film.” We’ve known both of those projects existed in theory, but this is the most recent word of forward motion. If I remember correctly (and do let me know if I’m wrong, as after the first film I stopped paying much attention to a Fox-developed Daredevil project) the last time we heard about this, another Daredevil flick was merely being ‘considered’.

Would a Silver Surfer film essentially reboot the character? You’d think so, since Fox is already committing to rebooting the studio’s take on the Fantastic Four, making the Surfer’s cinematic intro moot. Rebooting the FF but continuing with the established Surfer would be some real Earth 2 sorta shit.

Enjoy.

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