It’s hard to think of another film with so much potential that bombed so hard. 2015’s Fantastic Four was meant to attract a new generation of viewers by cashing in on the superhero craze brought about by The Avengers, whilst still telling an original tale.
The 2005 effort had nailed the aesthetics but completely dropped the ball with regards to everything else like tone and character motivations, especially as they were depicted in Jack Kirby’s original run. Thus, the solution was to ground the story in a hard science fiction setting in order to synthesize two visions: Kirby’s space opera take, and the more modern version of the characters from the Ultimate comics.
Given everyone’s love for Interstellar the year before, it seemed like a good idea. And it was, until it actually began to take shape. It’s generally hated by just about everyone, the film’s better off forgotten and though he wasn’t solely responsible for it flopping, writer Jeremy Slater has now taken to Twitter to apologize to Marvel fans for letting them down.
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And when I finally got my foot in the door, I only had three dream projects on my bucket list. One was Marvel (umm…sorry about that one, guys), one was Star Wars, and the third, of course, was Stephen King. Any one of those jobs would let me die a happy man. 3/
— Jeremy Slater (@jerslater) August 16, 2018
“And when I finally got my foot in the door, I only had three dream projects on my bucket list. One was Marvel (umm…sorry about that one, guys), one was Star Wars, and the third, of course, was Stephen King. Anyone of those jobs would let me die a happy man,” Slater wrote on Twitter.
Despite the poor reception to Fantastic Four, it’s great to see Slater’s excitement with his career, and being able to knock out two dream projects is a feat in and of itself. But fans of the Fantastic Four franchise aren’t likely to forgive so easily.
Source: Jeremy Slater
