“I’m confused.”
After the Kate Mara interview translation fiasco this week, fans have been a bit up-in-arms about the new Fantastic Four movie. Actor Michael B. Jordan (not to be confused with the sports star – there’s no “B” in his name!) met with MTV for an interview. As far as we’re aware, it wasn’t sent through any translation software a la the Kate Mara interview so what he said is actually what he said.
The first issue addressed was on the secrecy behind the film. As of now, there are extremely few official on-set photographs of the characters and what things will look like. Jordan mentions that most of the film production has been taking place in “our own little world.” I suppose that makes the most sense. But what he mentions next has me a little worried.
The script is evolving, [you make] on set decisions on the fly, things are always constantly changing. Me personally, I block out that extra noise and I focus on the job I have to do. It is an important film for all of us… We’re taking it seriously, taking a lot of risks. I think it’s going to pay off.
I understand that a movie production is going to have a bit of “I didn’t plan for this” going on, but to say that the movie is constantly changing? That seems a bit worrisome. Jordan assured MTV in the interview that it’s not as drastic as he made it sound, that changes have to be made to adapt to the current conditions, but that still leaves me a little leery of just how much random is getting thrown in.
To make matters worse, Jordan then goes on to say:
It’s not your typical superhero film, you know, we aren’t looking at this as like, being superheroes. We’re more or less a bunch of kids that had an accident and we have disabilities now that we have to cope with, and try to find a life afterwards – try to be as normal as we can.
Farther along in the interview, he then seems to retract that point.
It’s superheroes! You know, not just superheroes. It’s fiction. You’ve got to ground it as much as you can to make [audience members] feel relatable to these characters, no matter what age they are or what time of their life.
So we go from these kids are just trying to be normal to “but they’re superheroes!” It’s a lot of confusing information – and from just one source! And it’s not as though superheroes have never had a tragic accident as their origin story. Just look at characters like Spider-Man or the Hulk. They got their powers out of pure accident – so isn’t that the same thing? To be fair, most of the comic movies already in existence don’t focus on the emotional fallout of becoming a superhero less than on the literal fallout of exploding debris, but Jordan does make it seem like these are the only superheroes to ever get powers this way.
I want to be hopeful that this movie is going to be a good movie, but based on recent problems, that optimism is starting to wane. Entertainment Weekly hints that some of the actors will be at SDCC next week, so hopefully we’ll know a little bit more then.
(via /Film)
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