Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg Speak on Fantastic 4!!!

Not only does Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg Speak on Fantastic 4 they have also reveal the upcoming Marvel films first images.

Josh Trank and producer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg for Fantastic Four, 20th Century Fox’s highly anticipated superhero reboot starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, and Toby Kebbell.

As most of you know, Trank made a name for himself with the excellent found footage sci-fi film Chronicle, and Kinberg helped bring X-Men: Days of Future Past to the big screen as both the producer and writer and he’s currently writing X-Men: Apocalypse, as well as, the new Star Wars universe.

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Instead of making another Fantastic 4 film like its predecessors, Trank and Kinberg are pushing the envelope which may not be what some people might be expecting, but they have revealed a ton of great information about the project without getting into plot specifics.

CelebNMusic247.com got the deets via Collider who sat down with Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg to Speak on Fantastic 4.

Here are some highlights via Collider who spoke with writer/director and producer to speak on the upcoming Marvel superhero film.

In regards to the film having issues, Josh explained:

TRANK: I think a lot of that stuff is stemming from the fact that we’ve consciously decided to not release anything official. This isn’t like The Avengers. Even when the first Avengers came out, there were four other movies that people were familiar with. The suits and the tone and the look and the feel. So they could release those things or drop them on Twitter. With Simon on the X-Men movies, there were other movies that came before the last X-Men movie so Bryan [Singer] could feel more confident in tweeting teases of what’s to come. But this movie, we really want the audience to have the proper reaction to this material seeing it for the first time. You’ve really got to put your best foot forward. You can’t just leak an image to strike up a conversation. You want people to see something that has thought behind it. And the teaser should do just that. With conversations online, you can’t really control it. In this day and age people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they’re doing, but not every artist is like that. I’m not really like that. If I was painting a picture I wouldn’t want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I’d rather show people what it looks like when it’s done.

What sets this film apart from other superhero movies?

TRANK: I would say that the science fiction of it is a big thing that sets it apart from most of the other superhero genre films. I’m a huge David Cronenberg fan, and I always viewed Fantastic Four and the kind of weirdness that happens to these characters and how they’re transformed to really fall in line more with a Cronenberg-ian science fiction tale of something horrible happening to your body and [it] transforming out of control. And the potential for a hard sci-fi take on that material makes me really excited. I don’t really see that kind of potential and that kind of take being implemented on any of the other superhero movies that seem to be coming out in the next few years. Superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves and I didn’t really grow up on superhero movies. I grew up on genre movies before superhero was a genre. I don’t know if there are Blockbusters [the video chain] anymore, but there would probably be a superhero section. And this would fit more into the science-fiction, or horror, or even drama sections of the Blockbuster. And that’s just kind of the way I look at it. I want it to feel like it’s its own thing.

KINBERG: One thing that’s unique to it is that it’s always been about a family. Most comic book superhero movies are about a superhero protagonist or a superhero group. But they’re ever really exploring what it is to be family. And when I first read the comic that’s what was so compelling about it. I think the reason it’s endured this long, the powers are great, but the defining thing is the surrogate family. That’s something we really spent a long time talking about and putting into the film. I think that will differentiate us as well from all of the different superheroes and superhero groups out there.

TRANK: Before we even approached this movie, the Fantastic Four on its own is very unique.

Why the decided on Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, and Toby Kebbell as The cast of Fantastic 4?

TRANK: I always kind of had Miles in the back of my head for Reed and I always kind of had Michael in the back of my head. I met with Miles for Chronicle back in 2010 and I was such a big fan of his work in Rabbit Hole and he was an actor I always wanted to work with. So when Fantastic Four came about, and I really started working on this when I was in post on Chronicle at the end of 2011. I had just come off working with Michael B. Jordan and his character, Steve, in Chronicle had a lot of similar characteristics to Johnny Storm. And I thought it would be interesting to take the family dynamic of the Storms, which is brother and sister, and bring that more into the 21st century in terms of what we consider the norm. I have mixed family in my own family and it’s something that isn’t out of the ordinary anymore but we don’t really see it portrayed in the casual reality of the movies. That’s something I felt that would be interesting and challenging, to have mixed siblings.

Jamie I had met after Chronicle. He was somebody else who I was a huge fan of for years. He was an actor who I had really wanted to meet, I didn’t even know he was available and his casting came later in the process because I didn’t know he was available. A lot of people don’t remember in Billy Elliot that he was a working class kid who came from a rough neighborhood. Obviously this Ben Grimm character wasn’t inspired by Billy Elliot, but there’s a childhood element of this movie. A kid who comes from a rough neighborhood and is an alienated kid and has this toughness to him, Jamie just exudes that and I thought it would be an interesting role for him. It feels very much part of the same DNA as the roles that he elevates. And Kate auditioned for Sue and she just knocked it out of the park in our chemistry reads with all four of the actors, Jamie excluded because he wasn’t there for our chemistry reads. She just fit in so perfectly with Michael and it felt like they had this history between them that was really interesting and compelling. It’s different to sit in a room and talk to actors about their roles and then put a camera in front of them and then see how the camera picks up and registers that chemistry. It was just so natural.

Read the full interview at Collider….