{"id":3441,"date":"2002-11-21T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:25:12","slug":"the_fabtastic_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/21\/the_fabtastic_f.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fabtastic Four?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breathless press release prose aside, this article on the in-developmentFantastic Four<\/i> movie<\/a> sounds pretty good. Just like Spidey was just about a guy who can swing on webs, so the FF has always had a strong focus on family (the good, bad, and ugly) and on celebrity. The origin (tak-tak-tak-tak-tak<\/i>) is really secondary to that. <\/p>\n

So using the Beatles as a leaping off point for the overall story sounds rather clever to me. (Hmmm. Reed as Paul, Ben as John, Sue as George, and Johnny as Ringo?)<\/p>\n

The Dr. Doom stuff sounds kind of lame, though. But I thought Keaton would be an awful Batman, so I’ve given up trying to second-guess these sorts of projects, at least until they’re in the can. And the writer’s enthusiasm about the first ish cover art is a good sign.<\/p>\n

(via Blogatelle<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breathless press release prose aside, this article on the in-developmentFantastic Four movie sounds pretty good. Just like Spidey was just about a guy who can swing on webs, so the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9186,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/modern_ancient.html","url_meta":{"origin":3441,"position":0},"title":"Modern ancient monuments","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Jan-06 12:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting. 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