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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Aug 18, 2018 15:14:29 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Aug 18, 2018 16:09:58 GMT
Slater's original script only made to it having just one line of dialogue in the finished product. His pitch was awesome, and it's on Fox for not taking a risk to adapt it. This is what Slater wanted in his story and Fox said no because it would have been extremely expensive ((like $300M!). He shouldn't apologize for their fuckup. It's a shame. Like George Miller's Justice League: Mortal, it's one of the great 'what ifs' regarding shelved superhero movies. TEXT: His screenplay opened, like the film, with Reed and Ben as children, followed by Reed’s recruitment by the Baxter Foundation, which in its original conception “was envisioned as a sort of Hogwarts for nerds: a school filled with young geniuses zipping around on prototype hoverboards and experimenting with anti-gravity and teleportation and artificial lifeforms.” There Reed was supposed to strike up a friendship with a “damaged young Latverian scientist” named Victor, who “slowly seduced Reed into bending the rules,” damaging his friendship with Ben. There was still a portal device at the center of the Fantastic Four’s transformation, but originally it sent the kids to the “Negative Zone” (a classic Lee/Kirby comic-book creation) where they would have fought Annihilus (described by Slater as “a pissed-off cybernetic T-Rex”). Annihilus appears to kill Victor, and the rest get zapped with radiation on their return home. giving them their powers. Later, Victor returns from the Negative Zone, “having killed Annihilus and reshaped his Control Rod into a sort of living body armor.” Minus Annihilus and calling Planet Zero the Negative Zone, the outline is basically the same as the finished movie. According to Slater, the difference is tone and structure. He preferred stuff with “lots of humor, lots of heart, lots of spectacle,” while Trank preferred something “grounded, gritty, and as realistic as possible.” And while all of the aforementioned events took place by page 45 of the early 130-page draft, in the final movie, they take up almost the entire runtime. Slater says their early screenplay had a lot more stuff after that point that never made it to the screen: In addition to Annihilus and the Negative Zone, we had Doctor Doom declaring war against the civilized world, the Mole Man unleashing a 60 foot genetically-engineered monster in downtown Manhattan, a commando raid on the Baxter Foundation, a Saving Private Ryan-style finale pitting our heroes against an army of Doombots in war-torn Latveria, and a post-credit teaser featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer destroying an entire planet. We had monsters and aliens and Fantasticars and a cute spherical H.E.R.B.I.E. robot that was basically BB-8 two years before BB-8 ever existed. And if you think all of that sounds great...well, yeah, we did, too. The problem was, it would have also been massively, MASSIVELY expensive.
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Post by Archelaus on Aug 18, 2018 20:33:21 GMT
Slater's original script only made to it having just one line of dialogue in the finished product. His pitch was awesome, and it's on Fox for not taking a risk to adapt it. This is what Slater wanted in his story and Fox said no because it would have been extremely expensive ((like $300M!). He shouldn't apologize for their fuckup. It's a shame. Like George Miller's Justice League: Mortal, it's one of the great 'what ifs' regarding shelved superhero movies. TEXT: His screenplay opened, like the film, with Reed and Ben as children, followed by Reed’s recruitment by the Baxter Foundation, which in its original conception “was envisioned as a sort of Hogwarts for nerds: a school filled with young geniuses zipping around on prototype hoverboards and experimenting with anti-gravity and teleportation and artificial lifeforms.” There Reed was supposed to strike up a friendship with a “damaged young Latverian scientist” named Victor, who “slowly seduced Reed into bending the rules,” damaging his friendship with Ben. There was still a portal device at the center of the Fantastic Four’s transformation, but originally it sent the kids to the “Negative Zone” (a classic Lee/Kirby comic-book creation) where they would have fought Annihilus (described by Slater as “a pissed-off cybernetic T-Rex”). Annihilus appears to kill Victor, and the rest get zapped with radiation on their return home. giving them their powers. Later, Victor returns from the Negative Zone, “having killed Annihilus and reshaped his Control Rod into a sort of living body armor.” Minus Annihilus and calling Planet Zero the Negative Zone, the outline is basically the same as the finished movie. According to Slater, the difference is tone and structure. He preferred stuff with “lots of humor, lots of heart, lots of spectacle,” while Trank preferred something “grounded, gritty, and as realistic as possible.” And while all of the aforementioned events took place by page 45 of the early 130-page draft, in the final movie, they take up almost the entire runtime. Slater says their early screenplay had a lot more stuff after that point that never made it to the screen: In addition to Annihilus and the Negative Zone, we had Doctor Doom declaring war against the civilized world, the Mole Man unleashing a 60 foot genetically-engineered monster in downtown Manhattan, a commando raid on the Baxter Foundation, a Saving Private Ryan-style finale pitting our heroes against an army of Doombots in war-torn Latveria, and a post-credit teaser featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer destroying an entire planet. We had monsters and aliens and Fantasticars and a cute spherical H.E.R.B.I.E. robot that was basically BB-8 two years before BB-8 ever existed. And if you think all of that sounds great...well, yeah, we did, too. The problem was, it would have also been massively, MASSIVELY expensive.
screencrush.com/fantastic-four-2015-what-went-wrong/I weep at the loss of potential the script seem to have. However, I would have just stuck with Doctor Doom and Annihilus as the central antagonists. I would save the Mole Man and other characters for subsequent sequels. |
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