“One of the beauties of that and that I see in Matt Shakman is Sam always went back to the source material and said, ‘there’s a reason why Peter Parker and Spider-Man has been so popular for so long,’ and we have nothing to do with that 50 plus years at that time. And Matt always looked at it the same way. There’s a reason this IP has been popular for 60 years. Let’s embrace it. Let’s not run from it. Let’s challenge our screenwriters to tell the coolest Galactus story.”
I’m not super familiar with Fantastic Four villains, but who all is there that they haven’t used/don’t already plan on using?
Wikipedia has a list.
Honestly issue #1 has “Mole Man and his Moloids: An underground leader of Subterranea, who plans to take over the outer world that rejected him. Rules over different creatures and has access to highly advanced technology.” That could be a fun place to start.
Problem:
https://youtu.be/xapFKEq0xOI
In what way is that a problem?
Hard to do Mole Man when people will accuse you of ripping off the Incredibles.
Those people would be dumb and if they can’t even figure out that The Incredibles are inspired by the FF then they were never gonna watch the movie in the first place. The whole reason Marvel got popular in the first place was that they made movies that comic fans wanted to see and the comic fans brought their families and friends
The Rise of Skywalker should have been lesson enough for Hollywood about why there’s no point planning your movie around what you think will get the Twitterverse the least mad, because they’ll get mad anyway
Hollywood in general and Disney in particular seem to be struggling to understand who their target audience actually is. There’s a difference between making a movie accessible and catering to the lowest common denomimator.