Cinematical talks about the chain of events that led to the outing of Andre Braugher as signing on for the next Fantastic Four flick:
Andre Braugher is a mystery man currently when it comes to Tim Story’s upcoming Fantastic Four sequel. We have no idea what he’ll be doing in the second movie translation of The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine — but we know he’ll be in there somewhere, because of a Variety article about Forest Whitaker taking a guest role on TV’s E.R. Stick with me here, it’ll make sense eventually. Whitaker will be in a “multi-episode story arc” for E.R. this season as a stroke patient, but he was not the original choice for the role. Instead, he will be replacing … you guessed it … Andre Braugher, who had to back out of his original commitment to the show so he can “co-star” (their word, not mine) in the new Four flick.
I’m going to throw out a wild guess that Braugher is being tapped to play Alicia Masters’ father — The Puppetmaster.
August 25th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Besides, Braugher already did an amazing job playing a character trying to recover from a stroke in HOMICIDE. Why repeat himself for the on-the-way-out ER?
Better to try something different and fail in four color glory on the big screen for a bigger paycheck.
The worst of it is the possibility that this might curtail Forrest Whitaker’s role on THE SHIELD. But, hey, if Michael Chiklis can work around it, so can Whitaker.
August 25th, 2006 at 11:37 am
I say he’s Galactus’ voice because James Earl Jones isn’t returning Story’s calls.
August 25th, 2006 at 11:44 am
He was awesome in Homicide. I’m sure he’ll be great no matter what he does in the film.
August 25th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
why not Braugher as the voice of The Silver Surfer?