The Fantastic Four Remake Their History In Fantastic Four: Life Story

57 minutes ago, Atlantis said:

I hope not. I'd love to see the F4 on screen too, but there's a notion out there somehow that the comic book/action figure what have you, cant "sell" without a movie or tv show and this needs to stop. Marvel Legends was going long before anyone dreamed of the big screen. The comics need to be the comics and the films the films. Besides, if Marvel's inept "editors" had a hard time keeping the comic history and time line straight, trying to incorporate tv and films is just gonna be more of a disaster.

And frankly Hasbro has been missing out on the GOLD MINE that is Fantastic Four for its action figure line. Spider-Man, X-Men, Wolverine, Deadpool are the "usual" waves, but the Fantastic Four? They have it all- different costumes, allies, foes, weapons, vehicles, sets- there is so very much they could do if they'd just unclench. How I hope we're gonna get a Watcher BAF this year!

The only thing I want to see with the movie is not another version based on the Ultimate F4 origin

13 hours ago, memocromatico said:

Maybe they're trying this to see how they set them up in the MCU?

I hope not. I'd love to see the F4 on screen too, but there's a notion out there somehow that the comic book/action figure what have you, cant "sell" without a movie or tv show and this needs to stop. Marvel Legends was going long before anyone dreamed of the big screen. The comics need to be the comics and the films the films. Besides, if Marvel's inept "editors" had a hard time keeping the comic history and time line straight, trying to incorporate tv and films is just gonna be more of a disaster.

And frankly Hasbro has been missing out on the GOLD MINE that is Fantastic Four for its action figure line. Spider-Man, X-Men, Wolverine, Deadpool are the "usual" waves, but the Fantastic Four? They have it all- different costumes, allies, foes, weapons, vehicles, sets- there is so very much they could do if they'd just unclench. How I hope we're gonna get a Watcher BAF this year!

Maybe they're trying this to see how they set them up in the MCU?

Just in time for the Marvel Legends Fantastic 4 wave.

Seems cool, would be even cooler if its set in exact same universe as Spider-Man life story, where Reed does have role, but then again it could limit creativity or author, and Im not sure audiencewould want to see Sue leave Reed for Namor.

2 hours ago, MagnaPrime said:

Gonna have to look up life story now. But instead of time travel couldn't they just say franklin used his powers subconsciously or intentionally to slow the aging process?

Actually why would their aging processes have to be slowed, intentionally or otherwise? One of the basic premises of this format is that we see the characters age as if they would do in real time. By the end of Spider-Man's Life Story, he was in his 70s, so Johnny will (should) be too. Of course we don't know how any of this is gonna work out; they may decide that the cosmic rays that made Sue's pregnancy so difficult in the time we're used to, renders the pregnancy impossible in that one. Therefore no Franklin. But hey right now its all just spitballing; we'll have to wait and see what they do.

Gonna have to look up life story now. But instead of time travel couldn't they just say franklin used his powers subconsciously or intentionally to slow the aging process?

Spidey: Life Story was decent, so it should be interesting to see how this goes.

This should be pretty good, I enjoyed the spiderman version of this, hopefully this will be just as good.

2 hours ago, Atlantis said:

So that will put Reed, Ben and Doom roughly around 80 years or so....Mr. Fantastic and the Thing had to be in their 40s when they took that fateful trip into orbit...and Johnny was about 15! (Same age as Spidey was when hegot his powers. Wonder how theyre gonna explain how Reed got a teenager on that rocket). Of course the writers could decide to make the cosmic rays have an age-retardant factor....we'll see....

I think it was lightly retconned or just adjusted that Reed as in his late twenties early thirties at the time they went into space. It's kind of like how many writers forget that the Dark Phoenix that destroyed the planet was not jean grey but the phoenix. People choose to ignore it as the time goes on.