# Casting for The Fantastic Four has been announced **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, comic-books-manga, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [February 14, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559 "2024-02-14T17:50:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/41 "2024-02-16T20:03:38Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Sorry. Never been to NY. Stan Lee has said that, when writing dialog, he imagined Ben Grimm with Jimmy Durante’s voice. That Manhattan accent is pretty much dead. Hell’s Kitchen used to be a really rough place. Through a lot of the 20th century it was. I believe both Nick Fury and Daredevil grew up there. Relatively low rents combined with it’s location made it a desirable location. It’s right next to the Theater District. Rents aren’t low anymore. What used to be a blue collar neighborhood is now mostly white collar. Some really good restaurants in the area. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/42 "2024-02-16T20:04:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Tie them into the MCU during the movie not in the credits. > > Might be difficult if rumors are true about the movie taking place in the early 60’s. Are the FF now supposed to be immortal? Or are they going to stay in the 60s? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/43 "2024-02-16T20:17:19Z")
Maybe they’ll get tossed through time during the cosmic accident and have wacky misadventures in the present. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/44 "2024-02-16T20:30:59Z")
Wacky misadventures? What’s the chances of that happening? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/45 "2024-02-16T20:37:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I hope Doom isn’t in the script. I think he’s what largely torpedoed the first three attempts. Doom is just the anti-Reed and sucks all the air out of the other character’s stories. Bring on the monsters and aliens. Doom is pretty much the best Marvel villain if not the best comic book villain, period. He is exactly who the MCU should have been focusing on. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/46 "2024-02-16T20:40:16Z")
Pedro Pascal has the same problem i had with John Krasinski, he looks like a really nice dude who is also a bit dumb. Reed Richards should be literally the opposite of that. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/47 "2024-02-16T20:40:18Z")
Ben Grimm grew up on “Yancy Street”–a thinly disguised stand-in for Delancey Street–on the Lower East Side. An area which also used to be mostly working-class, but has since become fairly trendy and gentrified. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/48 "2024-02-16T21:14:22Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Pedro Pascal has the same problem i had with John Krasinski, he looks like a really nice dude who is also a bit dumb. Reed Richards should be literally the opposite of that. I would agree. I think I had the same problem with Miles Teller as Reed Richards. A bit too “Average Joe”. For Richards, I picture someone like Matthew Goode (Ozymandias from Watchman) or Glenn Powell (Hangman from Top Gun: Maverick). Maybe Jacob Elordi (Saltburn). He already looks all tall and gangly and all stretched out. I like Vanessa Kirby but really I don’t know much about what it takes to play Sue Storm, other than she’s blonde and turns invisible. The other two actors I’m barely familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/49 "2024-02-16T21:15:56Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Yeah, but who do you cast? You have to have someone who can just knock people’s socks off even when wearing the mask. Very tough to fill that role. Well…Pedro Pascal comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/50 "2024-02-16T21:17:19Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Pedro Pascal has the same problem i had with John Krasinski, he looks like a really nice dude who is also a bit dumb. Reed Richards should be literally the opposite of that. Reed Richards should have a very “patrician” air to him. Pedro Pascal has more of a “fun uncle” vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/51 "2024-02-16T21:18:20Z")
The nice thing about playing Reed is that you don’t have to work out for the role. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/52 "2024-02-16T21:23:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hell’s Kitchen used to be a really rough place. > […] > What used to be a blue collar neighborhood is now mostly white collar. Some really good restaurants in the area. From Hell’s Kitchen to swell kitchens? I’ll show myself out of the thread now… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/53 "2024-02-16T21:25:05Z")
Always the most tedious part of superhero movies. And they’re always too long and dramatic. Nobody cares if Batman’s parents get gunned down- get on with the story! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/54 "2024-02-16T23:12:13Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Nobody cares if Batman’s parents get gunned down Wait, are you saying there’s a connection between Batman……and Bruce Wayne? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/55 "2024-02-16T23:45:57Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I like Vanessa Kirby but really I don’t know much about what it takes to play Sue Storm, other than she’s blonde and turns invisible. She’s blonde, she turns invisible, and she makes force fields. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/56 "2024-02-17T00:04:31Z")
And easily the most powerful member of the Four. Comic-wise, don’t go after Lois Lane, Betty Ross, or Sue Storm’s kids. Because “force-fields” can also be very small and in your veins, or spiky, and they’re invisible. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/57 "2024-02-17T02:29:58Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Ben Grimm grew up on “Yancy Street”–a thinly disguised stand-in for Delancey Street–on the Lower East Side. An area which also used to be mostly working-class, but has since become fairly trendy and gentrified. Makes sense. That used to be a Jewish neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/58 "2024-02-17T02:49:52Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Because “force-fields” can also be very small and in your veins, or spiky, and they’re invisible. “…business cards that say _‘Sue Richards - Invisible Woman - Knocked Out The Hulk’._” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/59 "2024-02-17T11:44:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > > [@DigitalC](#): > > > > Pedro Pascal has the same problem i had with John Krasinski, he looks like a really nice dude who is also a bit dumb. Reed Richards should be literally the opposite of that. > > Reed Richards should have a very “patrician” air to him. You know, a Benedict Cumberbatch type. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559/60 "2024-02-17T13:37:27Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Makes sense. That used to be a Jewish neighborhood. And not coincidentally, it was the neighborhood where Jack Kirby grew up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/casting-for-the-fantastic-four-has-been-announced/997559.md?page=4)