Could this be a leaked excerpt from Josh Trank's FANTASTIC FOUR REBOOT script? Several trusted sources within our ranks say "yes." Should this information be believed? Probably not, but it's still very interesting nonetheless.
News broke out earlier today that in March of 2014 the director Josh Trank is to start filming "principal photography" at previously scouted-out locations in and around the state of Louisiana, primarily in it's capital city of Baton Rouge. Now with local "Pelican State" residents debating whether or not the Louisiana State Capitol Building will be stand-in for the world-famous Baxter Building, another curious untraceable rumor is being thrown around social media sites like Twitter and Reddit. A supposed "leaked logline" said to be pulled from an unfinished draft of the movie's script, (assumed to be written by Josh Trank and Seth Grahame-Smith before Simon Kinberg arrived on the project) is leading some to speculate if several recurring themes of this new Fantastic Four film will borrow heavily from Marvel's The Avengers... but why shouldn't it?
Certain individuals closely involved in the production have stated how the very first original draft of the script had to undergo "a complete overhaul" because it bared such a strange resemblance to what we saw in the final product of Joss Whedon's Avengers. A few correspondents over at AMC Movie News went on record saying Josh Trank's initial vision for the franchise was to do a scene-for-scene remake of The Avengers but with Fantastic Four characters. You'd be amazed by the results, that if you replace the Cosmic Cube AKA "The Tesseract" with the "Cosmic Control Rod" and replace S.H.I.E.L.D. with the Future Foundation, then replace the Shawarma after-credits scene with sweet Aunt Petunia's Brooklyn-style Falafel Kebabs... then you basically have the same film twice.
The Thing: [as the fight begins] Call it, Reed!
Mister Fantastic: Alright, listen up. Until we can close that Negative Zone portal our priority's containment. HERBIE, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Torch, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or you turn it to ash.
Human Torch: [to Invisible Girl] Wanna give me some stealth, sis?
Invisible Girl: Right. Better clench up, TinkerBell.
[Sue covers her brother with invisibility cloak]
Mister Fantastic: Johnny, you gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow 'em down. You got the supernova. Light the bastards up.
[Johnny flames on and flies off, then Reed turns to Susan]
Mister Fantastic: You and me Sue my darling, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. And Thing? [Reed turns to Ben and raises his finger] ...Clobber!
[the Thing smiles and jumps away, grabs an Annihilus-bug and squashes it against the side of a building]
So if this excerpt of the script is proven to be true, it's a version of Trank's film that we were never meant to see. The plot looks like a very cut-and-dry science fiction plot, with the Negative Zone obviously playing into what villain is said to appear, Annihilus. It seems Ultimate FF writer Mark Millar's statements were true when he compared Trank's cinematography to Ridley Scott's 1979 magnum opus sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien. But what does this mean for the future of 20th Century Fox's selfish treatment of their Marvel Cinematic Universe? If all they want is to model it after Marvel Studios' planned film series, literally in scene-by-scene verbatim? We can all agree that in 2012 TV-director Joss Whedon set the precedent for future comic-book films, a precedent formerly set by Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008) but when have scenes from The Dark Knight ever been parodied? Exactly, it never has, ever. Right now there's a huge demand for the "bright & colorful" superhero movies, and it appears that "grim & gritty" simply went out-of-fashion and won't be making its big comeback any time soon.
"We're not saying Joss Whedon's seamless blend of pathos and comedy will continue to serve as a glowing inspiration for comic book films and young-minded directors in general for years to come... but we are saying that "God" is now a four-letter word." -Unknown FOX Exec
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