Simon Kinberg talks about the film's tone and story

I already posted this in the Reborn thread, but what the hey?



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[About the film being "darker"]: "It’s still in the direction of [Sam Raimi's] ‘Spider-Man.’ It’s not like ‘Dark Knight.’ And even ‘Chronicle’ has a lot of fun in it. We’re treating this as the origin of the Fantastic Four so in future movies you’d have them on sort of splashier adventures to some extent but in this one we tried to ground the science as much as possible and make it feel like it could take place in our world before it cantilevers into other worlds."

From Den of Geek:

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"We’re definitely telling a younger story that the original films did. It depends on what books you look at. There are some, like the Ultimate books, that tell this story. So it is an origin story of the Fantastic Four, and it does follow them before they really know what a superhero is.... They’re older than high school, but they’re not quite grown into the world. If anything, this is a coming of age story."... Pressed on whether we’ll see the iconic sequence in which the Four gain their powers after being bombarded with cosmic rays during a space flight, Kinberg was more reticent about the details:"There is archetypal imagery of how they get their powers, for sure, and it does involve some sort of scientific travel." The movie begins shooting in Louisiana in about two weeks.