Say what you will, but Fox marketing executives are no dummies. Not only did they heavily promote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer during last night’s Heroes season finale — you watched it, didn’t you? — they used two of the four commercials to spotlight Jessica Alba and Chris Evans.
Hey, they know their audience.
You can watch the ads on NBC’s Heroes website.
Cast, crew and the future of FF
IESB.net rolls out a handful of interviews with the cast and crew of the movie.
The first installment of the website’s coverage focuses on screenwriter Don Payne, who combed through the source material for the screenplay, focusing on Fantastic Four #48-50 and #57-60, plus elements from Ultimate Fantastic Four.
Payne tells IESB he thinks the Silver Surfer is “one of the most complicated characters in comic book history, maybe the most complicated. He has done this amazing selfless act by saving his own planet and giving up the woman he loves to save her life and yet he’s become part of this horrible genocide on a cosmic scale and there’s a moral ambiguity there, he’s a noble creature who’s got a Zen-like detachment from his actions and ultimately starts to become human again, although he’s not human.”
(Comics2Film also has a Q&A with Payne.)
Part 2 centers on the cast — Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd and Julian McMahon — while Part 3 turns (briefly) to director Tim Story, who looks ahead to FF3: “Yeah, I definitely have ideas, I mean, there are so many different characters. The ones that come to you immediately are Puppet Master, Mole Man, the Inhumans, the Skrulls any of those you know you immediately think of some of those guys and think what would be the coolest one? But, one of the things we always do with the new villain is, and I think this goes for any comic book movie, is the visuals and what would be the coolest thing to bring to screen and how.”
Silver-tongued actor
Not to be outdone, Victoria’s Times Colonist talks to the Silver Surfer, Doug Jones.
“The soul I tried to give the Silver Surfer was that of a Christ-like figure,” he tells the newspaper. “I loved that element of him sacrificing himself to save his own planet and his people. It’s a delicious back story.”
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
They also were around the Smallville Finale and a few others on the CW.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I wonder if the people who were in an uproar over the Galactus cloud are embarassed by their wrongness.
Y’all saw the shadow on Saturn, right?