Miles Teller open to Fantastic Four sequel
Miles Teller would love the chance to return to the rebooted Fantastic Four franchise, even though the 2015 remake was a critical and commercial flop.
The Whiplash star portrayed Reed Richards and his alter ego Mr. Fantastic in the superhero movie, taking over the role previously played by Ioan Gruffudd in the 2005 original and its sequel.
The main cast was rounded out by Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and
Jamie Bell, but the revamped Fantastic Four failed to excite film
fans and critics alike, and even director Josh Trank attacked his
own movie upon its release last summer (15), claiming the finished
product was vastly different to the vision he had planned.
Despite the backlash, Miles insists he would be open to revisiting
the Marvel comic book franchise for a sequel, because he had so
much fun on the first shoot.
He tells JoBlo.com, "I loved the cast, I loved the characters. I
think it's such an interesting dynamic. I love how much they really
need to rely on each other... So, yeah, absolutely, I would do
another one."
And Teller isn't the only person eager to give the Fantastic Four
another shot - in May (16), producer Simon Kinberg insisted he had
learned from his mistakes and would be able to make his next
superhero film much better.
"We didn't make a good movie, and the world voted, and I think they
probably voted correctly," he told Den of Geek. "You can't make a
good movie every time out - not everybody does. We actually have a
pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we
made many mistakes when we made that movie - mistakes that we
learned from and we wouldn't repeat.
"We want to make another Fantastic Four movie. We love that cast...
I love the comic... We'll try to be truer to the essence of the
tone of Fantastic Four... which is brighter, funner, more
optimistic. I think we tried to make a darker Fantastic Four movie,
which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with
the DNA of the actual comic."
Studio executives at 20th Century Fox and Marvel have yet to reveal
whether they would pursue a sequel.