Fantastic Four (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fantastic Four |
| Original title | Fantastic Four |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josh potion |
| script | Josh Trank, Simon Kinberg , Jeremy Slater |
| production | Simon Kinberg, Gregory Goodman , Robert Kulzar , Hutch Parker , Matthew Vaughn |
| music |
Marco Beltrami , Philip Glass |
| camera | Matthew Jensen |
| cut |
Elliot Greenberg , Stephen E. Rivkin |
| occupation | |
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Fantastic Four (proper spelling: FANT4STIC ) is an American science fiction - action film from the year 2015 . The comic adaptation is a remake of the superhero film Fantastic Four (2005) and is based on the comic series Die Fantastischen Vier . Josh Trank directed the film , who co- wrote the script with Simon Kinberg and Jeremy Slater . The film had its red carpet premiere on August 4, 2015 at the Williamsburg Cinemas in Brooklyn (New York) in the presence of the four main actors and was released in US cinemas on August 7, 2015. The German premiere was on August 13, 2015.
action
The intelligent Reed Richards was already engaged in teleportation as a child. Discovered by Prof. Franklin Storm, Reed joins a team from the Baxter Foundation, which is partially funded by the US military. There Reed Franklin meets Storm's children Susan and Johnny. Together they work on the Quantum Gate , which was developed by a former protégé of Franklin Storm named Victor von Doom, who returns a little later.
With Reed's help, the teleporter is completed which connects to a new world. However, the military under Dr. Send everyone their own team and deny the developers use. Reed, Johnny, Victor go through the gate without permission, along with Reed's school friend Ben Grimm. Arrived on Planet Zero , Victor tries to take soil samples, but this leads to a lava eruption and the apparent death of Victor. The remaining three save themselves back to earth through the Quantum Gate with the help of Susan. An explosion changes the travelers on a molecular level through substances from Planet Zero: Reed becomes extremely elastic, Susan gains the ability to make herself invisible and create force fields, her younger brother Johnny can control fire, ignite himself and in this way also fly and Ben becomes a muscle man. Reed sees himself responsible for the disaster and flees the facility to find a cure for himself and his friends while they work for the military.
A year later, Reed is captured by Ben in Central America and taken to Area 57 , where Dr. Everyone wants to re-establish access to planet Zero with the help of Reed. A team from Dr. Allen's men travels through the gate and finds Victor von Doom, who has fused into his protective suit and has also developed extraordinary powers. He is brought back to Earth, but escapes and kills Dr. Allen and Prof. Storm. Marked by his time on Planet Zero and his hatred of people, Doom decides to destroy the earth. To do this, he travels back to Planet Zero, where he has built a huge teleporter that is activated and begins to consume the earth. Reed and the others have followed Doom back and put him to fight. Eventually, Doom is defeated by being thrown into the energy beam of his teleporter, where he dissolves.
Back on earth, the four are celebrated and rewarded by the military with a new base. They decide to use their powers for humanity and call themselves the Fantastic Four .
background
The film is not based on the classic adventures of the Fantastic Four, but on a reinterpretation by the team from the Ultimate Fantastic Four comic series , which was released between 2004 and 2009. In it, the protagonists are much younger and do not get their strength from a space flight, but from a journey into another dimension.
occupation
The role of Ben Grimm was cast with Jamie Bell , who played the eponymous protagonist in Billy Elliot - I Will Dance . Kate Mara , who played the ambitious reporter Zoe Barnes in House of Cards , slipped into the role of Susan Storm. Miles Teller , who played Jason in Rabbit Hole alongside Nicole Kidman, played Reed Richards. Michael B. Jordan , who showed the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant in Next Stop: Fruitvale Station , took on the role of Johnny Storm.
Ben Grimm: Jamie Bell (2015)
Sue Storm: Kate Mara (2015)
Reed Richards: Miles Teller (2015)
Johnny Storm: Michael B. Jordan (2015)
The Creator of the Fantastic Four :
Stan Lee (2015)
Filming
Filming on Fantastic Four began on April 21, 2014 and ended on August 3, 2014. The remake of the Marvel franchise was directed by Josh Trank, who previously appeared on Chronicle - What Are You Capable of? worked. Trank had a budget of 122 million US dollars and cast the film with four rather new actors. Teller and Jordan were already in the movie Forever Single? together in front of the camera.
Recovery information
In July 2015 it became known that an originally planned and advertised 3-D conversion had been canceled.
reception
Reviews
The announcement of the cast of the leading roles sparked heated discussions because Johnny Storm was cast with the African American Michael B. Jordan and Das Ding with the approximately 1.70 m tall Jamie Bell and this is considered inappropriate by comic book fans. Director Josh Trank countered that fans, comic book makers and filmmakers should be open to new interpretations. In April 2015, the four main actors received the CinemaCon Ensemble Award from the Association of American Cinema Operators NATO .
Gregor Wossilus from Kino Kino called the film a “fantastic fail”. The film is certainly ambitious, but completely inconsistent. He never found the right tone: “In terms of content, the film takes far too long before the superhero action finally starts. It gets really disturbing when the villain Doom finally returns to earth and bursts heads. This visual violence does not want to fit into the Marvel cinema cosmos, which is always winking. "Last but not least, the film struggles with its timing:" Before that, always splashing with the handbrake on, the film practically rushes through the final fight against Doom, in which the friends finally welded Mature superhero clique. "
Also Dietmar Dath gave the film a devastating critique:
“... So the film is rightly, as you learn, a catastrophic commercial bugger, which, in addition to being at least spectacularly big bullshit, lacks what a film based on the comic of the same name by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby should have in order to Art of doing justice to these two at least in failure: size. "
Gross profit
On the first cinema weekend, Fantastic Four grossed around $ 60 million worldwide. In particular, the US earnings for the first weekend of just $ 26 million were disappointing for a blockbuster of this size. With such low grossing on the first weekend, the film, whose production and marketing budget is estimated to be over $ 200 million, is considered a flop . The Hollywood Reporter estimates the losses at $ 80 to 100 million.
Awards
Won
- Worst movie
- Worst Director : Josh Trank (& Alan Smithee ?)
- Worst remake or sequel
Nominated
- Worst script
- Worst screen pair : All four "Fantastics"
- Nomination in the category Choice Movie: Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Sequels
Fantastic Four retells the story of Fantastischen Vier and is therefore not a continuation of the films Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). 20th Century Fox had originally planned to initiate a restart of the Fantastic Four film series with the remake. However, due to the economic failure of Fantastic Four , the sequel originally scheduled for June 9, 2017, was canceled.
Web links
- Fantastic Four in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Fantastic Four . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 391 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Fantastic Four . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ 'Fantastic Four' premiere in New York In: UPI.com, August 4, 2015.
- ^ How the Other Studios Stack Up, hollywoodreporter.com. Accessed June 25, 2015.
- ↑ Sebastian Lorenz: 3-D conversion canceled - Fantastic Four comes to the cinema as a 2-D film, Robots and Dragons, July 11, 2015.
- ^ Trank defends Fantastic Four-Casting, Moviejones.de, June 5, 2015.
- ↑ Cast of 'Fantastic Four' to receive 'CinemaCon Ensemble Award' In: CinemaCon.com, April 2015.
- ^ Gregor Wossilus: Fantastic Four ( memento from October 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Rundfunk Online, July 29, 2015.
- ↑ How can you be so Doom? Josh Trank's superhero comic book adaptation "Fantastic Four" sets a low point for the popular genre , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 13, 2015, p. 11, online
- ↑ Box Office Worldwide, 3rd quarter 2015 In: insidekino.de. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- ↑ 'Fantastic Four' Lacks Superpowers at Box Office at nytimes.com, accessed August 13, 2015
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Summer Box-Office Flops: 'Tomorrowland,' 'Fantastic Four' Lead - Hollywood Reporter. In: hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter , September 4, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Christoph Schelb: Razzies 2016: The "winners" of the Golden Raspberries. In: outnow.ch. OutNow.CH, February 28, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2016 .
- ^ Allison Crist and Kimberly Nordyke: Teen Choice Awards: Winners List In: The Hollywood Reporter, July 31, 2016.
- ↑ Fox cancels “Fantastic Four 2” theatrical release. In: huffingtonpost.de. The Huffington Post, November 24, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .