Rumor Kid Friendly Fantastic Four Reboot In The Works

Rumor: Kid-Friendly ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot In The Works?

By Jack Giroux/June 21, 2017 1:00 pm EST

Below, learn more about a potential Fantastic Four reboot.

The most recent draft for this vision of the Fantastic Four comes from screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote The LEGO Batman Movie and exited the director’s chair on The Flash. He also did some uncredited punch-ups on Trank’s Fantastic Four script.

A lighter take on the Marvel characters sounds like the next logical step after a failed gritty reboot, although the tone was hardly the problem with that movie. That tone could’ve worked if the film, especially the last hour, wasn’t such a mess. After audiences skipped the chance to see Reed Richards and his friends battle Dr. Doom on another planet in one clunky finale, Kinberg did say the next Fantastic Four might have a “brighter, funner, more optimistic tone”:

We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely — well, not completely, but largely — distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.