During our almost hour-long conversation, Trank and Kinberg revealed a ton of great information about the project without getting into plot specifics. In a day and age where everything seems to be spoiled before you walk into a theater, I welcome being surprised. I want to experience the twists and turns with fresh eyes.
However, while they were guarded about the plot, the two did share a ton of information. Before diving into the full interview, here are a few of the highlights:
* Trank says they “consciously decided to not release anything official” until now.
* In terms of plot and story, Trank was guarded but did say, “This is a modern telling of how these four iconic characters came together and came to be.”
* Trank revealed that renowned composer Philip Glass is scoring the movie with Marco Beltrami.
* The film recently did a few days of additional photography and it was to film some bits and pieces. Nothing major. They weren’t filming some huge new ending.
* The original shoot was seventy-two days and they were on-schedule and on-budget.
* The film is heavily influenced by David Cronenberg and Trank mentioned that Scanners and The Fly were big influences on the look of the film.
* The film is an origin story and there are influences of what Kirby and Stan were doing in the 60’s all the way up into the present day.
* The Ultimates was also an influence and a lot of the science specifics are there. They told me a lot of the means of transformation they took from the books.
* Trank’s first cut of the film was around 2 hours and 10 minutes. He said the final film will probably be between 2 hours and 2 hours and 20 minutes.
* Kinberg says there is an Easter egg in the teaser trailer.
* They are very influenced by what Marvel has been doing regarding combined universes. Saying that, they admit it’s tricky to combine X-Men and FF because the X-Men films so far don’t acknowledge the Fantastic Four and the Fantastic Four takes place essentially in the same time period as the modern day X-Men movies.
* Kinberg does confirm that there is a different approach to the Marvel movies at Fox than when they started making Marvel films at the studio. “There is an intent and want to be a part of a larger fabric and tapestry the way Marvel has done so brilliantly.”
Jessica Alba better be done justice cuz..
I cant see him on fire though
