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Fox Casts “Fantastic Four”

Reid Nakamura |
February 20, 2014 | 12:12 p.m. PST

Executive Producer

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The “Fantastic Four” film franchise is getting a reboot at Fox and the company has an idea of which four actors might be fantastic in the movie.

According to The Wrap, the potential cast is Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, a.k.a. The Human Torch; Kate Mara as Sue Storm, a.k.a. The Invisible Woman; Miles Teller as Reed Richards, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, a.k.a. The Thing.

If the cast is finalized, the actors will be markedly different than the cast of the last “Fantastic Four” film in 2005. Miles Teller and Jamie Bell are much younger than Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis who played their roles in the 2005 movie.

The name that has been getting the most attention, however, is Michael B. Jordan. Jordan, a black actor, is set to play the character played by Chris Evans. A character that has historically been depicted as a white man and is supposed to be Sue Storm’s sister. How the relationship will be explained remains unclear.

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As a whole, the rumored cast is full of young stars on the rise in Hollywood. Kate Mara stars in the Emmy-winning Netflix series “House of Cards,” Teller and Jordan recently co-starred in “That Awkward Moment” alongside Zac Efron, and Jamie Bell appears in the endlessly-buzzy Lars von Trier film “Nymphomaniac.”

The cast has not yet been finalized, according to The Wrap. The final decision will come down to the chemistry between the four actors and their individual schedules. Teller, for one, is set to star in the film adaptation of the hugely popular book series “Divergent” that is scheduled to shoot at the same time.

The movie is written by “X-Men: Days of Future Past” writer Simon Kinberg and will be directed by “Chronicle” director Josh Trank. It has a release date of June 19, 2015.

Reach executive producer Reid Nakamura here.



 

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