The teaser trailer for the first Fantastic Four movie was really awful, but the movie really wasn't that bad, in a kind of fun geeky sci-fi way. Like clockwork, a teaser trailer for the sequel has shown up six months out.
Yay! The wedding! Of course. I'll guaran-effin-tee that Stan Lee is somewhere in that shot.
But I never would have guessed Brian Posehn.
I thought I recall some rumors suggesting the Thing suit would be changed up for the sequel, to make it beefier and more appropriately monstrous. Guess that money was sent over to the mo-cap people instead.
See, what happens here is that the Surfer shows up to streak Manhatten during the wedding and Reed sends Johnny off to chase it through some old Spider-Man movie shots.
When did the Silver Surfer gain the ability to intangibly travel through solid stuff with a weird liquid effect? Eh.
It's even stranger: here he skids down a building doing obvious damage. Neat shot though.
Creepy cool! I like the whole alien vibe here.
All the advances in CG technology, and here's a guy who's little more than Your First Poser Experiment in Reflective Surfaces.
Effects layering is a hair off here. The people in the front of the bus are reacting to a Surfer fly-by that hasn't gotten to them yet.
Oh yeah, Torch is still here. He had a line or two that is in his usual young-Bill-Murray style, but for much of the trailer, he's just getting bounced off of walls.
Surfer stops and turns around...
...and grabs Johnny by the neck! Again, nicely alien. Not even bound by our usual physical laws of flying men.
Even CG actors have stunt doubles, apparently.
I'm absolutely tickled that they went with the Silver Surfer for this one, because it is such an only-in-comics concept. You have to remember the hairy, hippie 1960s scene - as permutated by Stan and Jack - to even begin to understand how such a creation could come about. Comics fans today have been long accustomed to the guy, but to spring him on the mass audience (the first FF film cleared $150 million) just makes me giddy.
They could have easily gone with the Mole Man, Namor, or even just a properly done Doom-as-Latverian-Monarch... but they went balls-out alien. I'm sure the Surfer's appearance will be tied to the spaceflight of the first movie somehow.
The only question is, does Galactus show up now, or in Part Three?
And beyond that, what are the chances of an all-star Infinity Gauntlet movie now?
