‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot Synopsis Announced: They Should Have Just Stopped With The First Movie

The Fantastic Four reboot details have been announced, and the general consensus is that 20th Century Fox should have just stopped with the first movie. It was good enough.

Let me make one thing very clear right away. I don’t mind the Human Torch being black as a result of casting Michael B. Jordan. There is such a thing as interracial families and recessive genes, so it is scientifically possible for the Storm family to consist of black and white children without any family secrets.

Where the Fantastic Four reboot started to go wrong was changing the origins of Doctor Doom. In the original comics, the infamous villain was a despotic genius of Latverian birth who essentially did the same thing Iron Man did, only in the morally opposite direction. The first movie changed him just enough to keep his basic identity, but the reboot is taking the changes too far.

Instead of a Latverian genius with a taste for technology and power, he is being reinvented as an anti-social programmer. Technically, the new Fantastic Four movie is turning Doctor Doom into a common internet troll.

Now Josh Trank has revealed what the movie itself will be about, and the fans, as well as myself, are getting flashbacks of Michael Bay’s vision of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Bay’s original idea was to make the foursome aliens instead of mutants.

Trank’s re-imagining of the Fantastic Four is making too many changes the fans don’t like, including the synopsis.

“[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.”

The Fantastic Four reboot is teleporting characters between worlds in what appears to be the weakest possible form of deus ex machina we’ve seen in a superhero movie. Also, the idea of “four young outsiders” doesn’t sound like a superhero storyline at all. It sounds like Chuck Lorre’s concept for the early seasons of The Big Bang Theory.

[Photo from IGN.com]Essentially, Josh Trank is turning Sheldon Cooper and the gang into superheroes who happened to discover a form of teleportation and get their genes altered.

The fans are not happy about the Fantastic Four reboot, and for good reasons. While some can’t handle Michael B. Jordan as a black Human Torch, others hate the way Doctor Doom was changed. The synopsis for the Fantastic Four 2015 release is making things worse.

The writers turned a classic team of superheroes and turned them into a sitcom gone wrong.

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