I have to admit, I think theFantastic Fourtrailer was a pleasant surprise.
TheFantastic Fourtrailer certainly looks more sci-fi than superhero.
So, lets get started…
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The Basics
Hey, look!
At least its set in New York City, right?
Can anybody spot the Baxter Building?
But what about this other location?
It would seem the Grimm family owns a business of some kind.
Since the next shot is of Reed and Ben in a garage, perhaps thats what they do.
But this looks like countryside, or at least the suburbs.
I dont think well be seeing Yancy Street in this movie, unfortunately.
But on to that garage stuff…
These next two images…
This is pretty explicitly taken straight out of the pages ofUltimate Fantastic Four#1.
Speaking of dangerous tech…
Were looking at an interdimensional rather than an interstellar origin for the characters in this one.
Im trying to reconcile this with the other pod we see elsewhere in the trailer.
I only included this shot because I like the design of the spacesuits.
There are six astronauts here.
The fifth is Toby Kebbell as Victor Domashev (Von Doom!
), but who could the sixth one be?
Or is number six just the equivalent of a red shirt inStar Trek?
Someone has to croak so that show off how serious the mission is.
Unless there are twodifferentmissions to the other dimension?
Is this image the same room, but after its been ravaged by interdimensional energies, for instance?
Josh Trank also talked about David CronenbergsThe Flyas an influence on the look of the movie.
Theres something to be said about that with this weird, interdimensional pod thing.
Heres another, more colorful look at it:
And that fella looking at it…?
The voice of the trailer, Mr. Reg E. Cathey.
He is Dr. Franklin Storm, Reeds boss, Johnnys Dad, and Sues stepfather.
See how easy that was to figure out and explain?
The shapes of the walkway and the beams above him all kind of reflect the strange contortions that Mr.
Fantastic (a name I doubt were going to hear in this movie) are capable of.
Oh, goodness…he isnt smiling anymore, now is he?
The usual correlation with Sue Storms invisibility is the elemental air.
But perhaps here its information.
Speaking of information, theres a fun little Easter Egg in this next image.
Heres Ben Grimm, playing baseball.
Heres Ben Grimm, breaking out of a rocky coccoon.
Oh, look, its excellent actor Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm!
Whats he fixing here?
And that looks like an awfully nice room to just be a garage.
I kinda dig the obligatory flame on shot.
I dont see the harm in foregrounding it a little for the movie.
Unless theres yet another mission to the other side.
The chronology of this trailer is strange, and Im not helping by not going chronologically through it.
The Phantom Zone kind of looked like this, didnt it?
moment in the background?
And heres Johnny and sister Sue playing tag?
I presume thats one of Sues forcefields, or a visual representation of her invisibility powers.
That would beVictor DomashevDr.
Doom on the table there.
I presume this next shot is also Doctor Doom making everyones weapons go haywire:
And then finally…
Yes, this is the seemingly obligatory giant laser beam shot that superhero movies have.
The Fantastic Fouropens on August 7th, 2015.
