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Silver Surfer Movie
11.25.09, 21:30:56
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There seems to have been some confusion on the web regarding the status of the long-discussed Silver Surfer solo film. After a recent interview with J. Michael Straczynski, the co-writer of the script in question, speculation was rampant that the film starring Galactus' former herald would be set to join the pile of comic projects that never came into being.
"What happened was when Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer didn't do as well as they hoped it would do, it caused them to call into question a Silver Surfer movie. The script that I wrote picked up right where FF2 left off. So if they do a Silver Surfer film down the road, it'll have to be its own separate thing."
Hindsight being 20/20, it seemed pretty clear that Straczynski was referring to the death of the "old" Silver Surfer script which was set to be a direct follow-up to 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. However, what he probably needed to clarify, was that ANOTHER script is currently in development, which, as he states, will be "its own separate thing." Regardless, reports of the death of the Silver Surfer project (perhaps rooted in a bit of schadenfreude) were precipitously making their way around news circles.
Straczynzski took it upon himself to clear the air on the matter with a statement he sent to IGN, in which he says, among other things:
"When FF2 didn't do as well as hoped for, that script was set aside, but that has NOTHING to do with the Silver Surfer script that is NOW under development at Fox with other folks. As far as I know, that is proceeding apace. So the hysteria that's gripped the nets about 'ohmygod the Surfer movie is dead!' is not correct, as I was again referring to only that one specific script tied into FF2, NOT what's being done now."
Essentially, the lack of success of the last Fantastic Four film has not killed, but rather, merely changed the course of the Silver Surfer movie. I nonetheless cannot imagine that Fox will be in a mad rush to get the project off the ground. With the last Fantastic Four film having been released so recently, and the array of (competing Marvel Studios-produced) Avengers films on the horizon, the box-office field is not looking particularly welcoming. Additionally, we've heard that Fox may already be brewing a reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise itself. While it's certainly not unfeasible to release The Silver Surfer before putting him in context in a Fantastic Four storyline, it would still seem wrong. I'm pretty sure the public would see it that way, as well.
The Silver Surfer Movie: Dead Or Alive? - G4tv.com
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