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Plot synopsis of The Fantastic Four reboot

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Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger.

The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.
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LOL. Can't afford full-time Thing CGI. Maybe next time if this one does well enough.
 
Jarmel said:
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Well at least the reviews for this should be amazing.
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Seems like an accurate reaction if those spoilers are true. Why does Fox hate the FF so much? Why is Doom treated this way? :(
 
AlfredX1990 said:
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.

Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.

Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.

Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.

Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.

Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.

Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.

There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.

The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.

One of the screenwriters said this is 100% bullshit but the plot synopsis fits with it so it's not 100% bullshit but as always take it with a grain of salt
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Why.
Why can't they put a good Doom on screen.
 
AlfredX1990 said:
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.

Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.

Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.

Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.

Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.

Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.

Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.

There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.

The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.

One of the screenwriters said this is 100% bullshit but the plot synopsis fits with it so it's not 100% bullshit but as always take it with a grain of salt
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LOL

Missing the point of Ben entirely if true, and the Doom stuff sounds miserable.
 
AlfredX1990 said:
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.

Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.

Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.

Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.

Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.

Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.

Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.

There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.

The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.

One of the screenwriters said this is 100% bullshit but the plot synopsis fits with it so it's not 100% bullshit but as always take it with a grain of salt
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Oh god, this sounds like the perfect movie to watch with real fans.

I'll feed in their sadness.
 
Xpike said:
Why.
Why can't they put a good Doom on screen.
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It's not like the concept of a mercurial ruler who is worshipped by the people is some out-there concept. There's a fair number of them ruling right now. Doom is an easy sell, I think.

Hero_of_the_Day said:
LOL. Can't afford full-time Thing CGI. Maybe next time if this one does well enough.
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I didn't like the comic storyline when Ben learned he could turn off his Thing powers. I don't remember how it ended, nor that it hasn't been retconned other times. The Thing is my favorite comic character, and one of the best things about him is how tortured his existence is.

And I want a proper Galactus back.
 
The alternate universe thing has me a little intreagued, my view on this movie has now gone from 'meh' to 'I'll check it out.'

Interested to see where they take this.
 
Xpike said:
Why.
Why can't they put a good Doom on screen.
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Doom's awesomeness cannot be contained in one movie. He needs a buildup across multiple MCU films to even possibly achieve this, so yeah we'll be wearing jackets in hell before this happens.
 
Kanyon said:
The alternate universe thing has me a little intreagued, my view on this movie has now gone from 'meh' to 'I'll check it out.'

Interested to see where they take this.
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The altenrive universe is the Negative Zone (it's not a universe really), they did that in the Ultimate Fantastic Four.


The fact that they haven't shown anything makes me think the Studio don't have much faith in it.
 
Syphon Filter said:
why a reboot aleady?
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Because Fox refuses to give up the rights to Marvel. They're essentially doing the same thing Constantin Film and Roger Corman did in 1994 and making the cheapest piece of shit possible just to retain the rights.

Same thing as Sony and The Amazing Spider-Man.
 
I'd rather watch Cloudy with a Chance of Galactus AKA Fantastic Four 2 than watch this. Sounds like a right train wreck. Not an ounce of positivity with anything coming out of it.
 
I'm not a huge fan of FF in the first place, so them changing the origins really doesn't bother me because I can only see anything that changes the franchise as going up (besides making Doom a nerd stereotype).
 
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