If she can cough up one of these academy award performances in the role great but given her experience with the X-Men franchise...
And Lawrence was phenomenal in it. And in Winter's Bone as well. Never heard anyone say she has "the range of a wooden block." before today, that is.
I realize John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are the favorites for Reed and Sue, but to me that makes it all the more likely they won’t go with them. JK Simmons was a massive shock to see return as JJJ. Jennifer Lawrence feels like too much of an established presence to be Sue. MCU tends to hire moderately up and coming actors and turn them into stars for their leads, not counting actors like Benedict Cumberbatch and Brie Larson who were pretty established before joining the MCU.
They're breaking from that formula more and more now. Like you said, Cumberbatch and Larson were already established. Eternals is full of stars. Oscar Isaac is Moon Knight. Ali is Blade.
I could understand someone saying they thought Dustin Hoffman was a terrible actor if the only movie they'd seen of his was Ishtar. So I get it. But I'd seen Lawrence first in Winter's Bone, so I know what she's capable of. Stuff that people who only know the X-Men and Hunger Games movies have never seen.
Can anyone elaborate on what qualities of Reed Richards people see in Krasinski? Or for Blunt with Sue?
FANTASTIC FOUR: Marvel Rumored To Be Seeking Diverse Actors For "Most, If Not All" Team Members Word of warning: Trank had tried this approach.
I still would like to see a director's cut of the more horror-ish movie Trank wanted to make, if only the footage existed. The early FF comics, particularly the first several issues, had pretty strong (for that era) horror elements carrying over from the monster comics Kirby was doing prior to Stan taking a shot at returning to super-heroes. So I think that was a very legit approach to take with FF, which unfortunately got undermined by studio interference resulting in a poorly executed, boring cliche watered-down straight super-hero movie. As far as the diversity thing goes, I'm sorry, but I really do not give one single fuck. They could cast a little person from Guatemala to play Reed Richards and a trans woman from Tunisia to play Sue, and it would not move the needle in either direction for me. I just don't care. Go for it. Let's see what you got. Just tell an interesting story.
I don't give a flip about the diversity of the team, or not. But just let it be natural. If you have to waste lines of dialogue justifying mixed-race siblings that doesn't otherwise contribute to the story, then you've failed. That's just transparently forcing a quota and letting the story suffer for it.
It's kind of what he did, but that was far from the reason why his F4 failed. From what I've heard Trank was.. not the greatest person to work with, and probably shouldn't be put at the helm of another project due to how unstable and self-destructive he can become. ''''''Diverse''''''' is just a corporate codeword for non-Caucasian / non-white, not taking into account the F4 are already a diverse team that don't need some shallow surface-level alterations to be so. How could you possibly look at these guys and think "nah, they aren't diverse enough"? This same thing could be said for a lot of MCU characters that have been pointlessly changed for the movies. Dismissing a group of characters for being mostly light-skinned as 'not diverse' is no different than dismissing a cast of mostly Asian or Black characters for the same reason.
I want to see a FF that looks like the group I'm reading about in the comics. Put the comics characters up on the big screen as they are, otherwise what's the point? They might as well be making a movie about a completely new group of characters. I tried watching the Josh Trank FF the other week for the first time. It was dreary and dark and did not feel at all like the characters. It was the New 52-ing of the FF, a bunch of in name only versions of characters, and I'm afraid that's what the MCU is going to give us as well.
Yeah, I was cool with Johnny being black, what they should have done was committed and had Sue be black too. On that front, for the MCU, I would love to see a black Reed Richards.
If the point of the movie is to be as true to the comic as possible, i don't understand the need or point to change race just because. Marvel comics have been diverse for a long time. I don't see why they would need to suddenly change their beloved characters to try and prove otherwise.
Yeah kinda... sorta like how people these days often use the word 'diversity' wrong. You're right on the money here, my dude.
It's far far to early for anything to be being said about whatever the MCU has planned for the FF this is clickbait and one of the most stock lazy one at that.
That's another thing, isn't the MCU F4 planned to be one of the last movies in Phase 4? If they don't just move it to Phase 5 or whatever.
