The Mole Man a vilain for the Fantastic Four 2!?

[Kramodlog]

The actor who will play the character that will become the Mole Man in the FF universe as been cast.

This sounds pretty silly. Can't they do a Galactus/silver Surfer arc that doesn't suck instead?

 

[Umbran]

Honestly, an "arc" requires more than one movie, and the FF don't have a movie track record to support multi-movie stories yet.

I think Galactus is hard enough to make plausible in the comics, in a movie I expect he's untenable.

 

[Kramodlog]

He'll need modifications, but this is the 20th Century cinematic world. They can modify a bit.

And two films. One with the SS coming to Earth, and than a second where they fight Galactus.

 

[Umbran]

For me, that would be doing a crappy Galactus story. Humans don't fight Galactus. Or shouldn't. If Galactus is fightable, that kind of defeats the point of the character.

When the FF first meet Galactus in the comics, while the others keep Big G distracted, the Watcher Uatu tells Johnny Storm how to sneak onto Galactus' ship to steal a gizmo, the Ultimate Nullifier, to drive off Galactus. There is no real fight, even with Silver Surfer present. The heroes don't win by strength or guile, nor even perseverance. They win because a powerful alien force likes humans, and handed them a solution. It worked fine in the comics of the 1960s, but in a modern big-budget action flick, having the heroes be pretty much utterly useless against the antagonist is probably not the way to go.

And, as I said, I don't think the FF currently have the cachet to do a two-movie story.

 

[Kramodlog]

Who said they need to fight him directly?

 

[Umbran]

Who said they need to fight him directly?

*shrug* Then it isn't really fighting Galactus though. It's fighting his minions, or whatever. I think maybe the FF needs to have a decidedly good movie before they try tackling the cosmic forces.

 

[Kramodlog]

How about "conflict", would that satisfy your pedantic urges?