An effect of the current superhero craze means every studio is looking to see which of their costume-centered properties can be rebooted and repackaged for mass appeal. When it comes to 20th Century Fox, after financial success with X-Men, they are now doing a new spin on Fantastic Four. Recruiting Chronicle‘s Josh Trank to direct, the first trailer dropped today.
Before we get to that, though, he sat down with Collider to reveal some intriguing information, namely that the legendary Philip Glass will score the film with Marco Beltrami, as well as its David Cronenberg influences. Check out a quote about the latter below.
Maybe the biggest influence for me in terms of an overall view and communicating tool to the various department was Scanners or The Fly. In terms of the feeling of what these powers are. Because the drama speaks for itself in terms of the script or the story but the look of the movie and the feel of the movie has to be more evocative.
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.
Featuring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, and Toby Kebbell, see the trailer, poster, and stills below:
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Fantastic Four opens on August 7th, 2015.