Board Thread:Movies/@comment-1895174-20131011181202

If you haven't already heard, Variety reported that five (six, before a redaction) actors had tested for the roles of Reed Richards and Sue Storm for the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. As seems to be the case with everything involving this movie, it's a bit of a mess.

Kit Harington, Jack O'Connell, and Miles Teller are reading lines for Reed, while Saoirse Ronan and Kate Mara are testing for Sue. These are pretty terrible choices. I can't say much about their acting abilities since Harington's the only one I'm all that familiar with, but these actors are way to young to convincingly portray either character. With the exception of Mara, they're not old enough to have finished graduate school, much less establish themselves as well-respected, genius scientists (who have been to space). Heck, Ronan is 19 - she's not old enough to have an undergraduate degree by the March 2015 release date. Of all the Marvel characters to change into teenagers or young adults, Reed and Sue are two of the least appropriate to do that to.

There's always the possibility none of those get hired for the movie. Emily VanCamp was not one of the names mentioned for Agent 13 before she was hired, and neither was Chris Pratt for Starlord. But what it does show is the direction the film's producers are going for with the reboot. It looks like the people behind this movie just want to make it a clone of the YA-adaptation crap that's been tanking at the box office lately. And to think we were worried that The Amazing Spider-Man was going to Twilight-up that property. I don't know exactly who to point the finger at, but Mark Millar would be a good guess.

Who would you cast as Reed and Sue? or as Johnny and Ben? or the villain? Personally, I'm a fan of Adam Scott or Timothy Olyphant. But even Stephen Colbert would be better than the names currently being floated around. 