MOVIES: Producer for Fantastic Four reboot named

Mark Millar is all over the Fantastic Four news for 20th Century Fox.  The writer has been tapped to guide the studio on a number of their Marvel projects, including the upcoming reboot to the Fantastic Four franchise.  Mr. Millar has tweeted his thoughts about the production so far, but the latest, puts Matthew Vaughn front and center.

So, Millar, Vaughn and Trank all involved with the Fantastic Four movie.  While the behind the camera team sounds impressive, we’ll only know the full extent how well this comes together when we see the new Fantastic Four on the big screen.

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MOVIES: Fantastic Four reboot gets release date

Grumblings have been heard throughout Hollywood about a Fantastic Four reboot for months with pieces and tid-bits of information becoming right and wrong all along the way. With a director attached in July, Fox has officially announced a release date and they sure have picked an interesting date. Take the jump for the info.

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REVIEW: Fantastic Four #1

Or  – “I’m SO Glad To See That Short-Sleeved Uniform Is Gone…”

There is a tendency within the world of comics to want to constantly ‘one-up’ the stories that have gone before, to get more cosmic/brutal/strange/horrific with each iteration of a given title.  Nowhere is this more prominent than in the case of the Fantastic Four.  Once the hub of all activity in the Marvel Universe, the Richards family and various hangers-on are often treated as a quaint relic of the Silver Age rather than as an awesome action-adventure series.  (Of course, part of this comes from creators afraid or unable to one-up Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s original hundred-and-four issue FF canvas.)  With Jonathan Hickman exiting the book, Matt Fraction takes up the writing reins of the Fantastic ones, with some big shoes to fill.  How’s the debut issue?  Your Major Spoilers review awaits!

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MOVIES: Fox hires Mark Millar as creative consultant

What will 20th Century Fox do with the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises?  With both in a bit of a twirl at the moment, the studio has teamed with Mark Millar who will advise the company on future Marvel Comics property films.

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REVIEW: Fantastic Four #610

As Jonathan Hickman wraps up his run on Fantastic Four, he’s been hunting down loose threads like a tailor with OCD. The Human Torch is back from the dead. Reed’s ex-girlfriend got blasted to the far side of the universe (cue 90’s stand-up comedian, “Am I right, guys?”). What about that super-villain clone that Reed invited into his house? Nothing could go wrong there, could it? We’ll begin to learn the answer to that question as we review Fantastic Four #610.

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VARIANT COVER: Marvel shows off connecting variant covers for Fantastic Four and FF #1

As Marvel NOW! comes ever closer, expect to see a lot of coverage of the new books. And with any new book, variant covers are sure to be close behind, luring collectors with the promise of something super cool. Marvel has a pair of connecting variant covers for the upcoming release of Fantastic Four #1 and FF #1.

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