Why Fox’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Needs to Ignore Its Comic Book Past (Analysis)

Let’s get the most obvious thing out of the way first: a core cast of Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Miles Teller suggests that whatever problems Fox’s Fantastic Four reboot might have, the quality of the acting won’t be one of them. Unfortunately, that just leaves everything else to worry about.

I’ve been writing longer posts for THR over the last couple of days (and will be doing more in the future, too, hopefully). Here I am, talking about what the Fantastic Four movie needs to do in order to work.