>>149766256
Read, you retarded nigger.
>Just prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Marvel conducted secret screen tests for Reed Richards. A group of actors flew to London, including Christopher Abbott and Jamie Dornan, but the tests did not go very well.
>It quickly became apparent to Marvel that they needed a bigger name. Just before the strike took effect, they went out to Jake Gyllenhaal, but he wanted too much money (as did Adam Driver early on). Budget has been a real issue for this movie, which is why Emma Stone or Margot Robbie aren't playing Sue Storm. They're too expensive and Kevin Feige is trying to contain talent costs.
>With Vanessa Kirby tipped to be Sue Storm, who is said to be the clear lead of the film, and Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach poised to play Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, Feige foresaw another issue with Gyllenhaal besides the actor’s fee: He feared that the cast was “way too white,” in the words of one insider. Reed Richards would be the character eyed to diversify the cast.
>It didn’t hurt that Pascal, who is Chilean, is hotter than both Gyllenhaal and Driver at the moment; he’s the internet’s new boyfriend who can do no wrong. The feeling internally was that Mister Fantastic was a tricky role to cast — not just because of the demand for multiple movies, but also because Sue is the lead of this first film, and Feige felt Pascal was the perfect get.
>https://www.theinsneider.com/p/fantastic-four-cast-pedro-pascal-marvel-madness-christopher-nolan-best-director
>>149764695
The script was legitimately awful. I have no idea how they thought Oscar Nominees were going to be enticed. Feige must be legitimately retarded.
>>149763320
He was in my fancasts back in the day, as I had them broken down in age brackets. I hated the Krasinski crowd, but boy did I never expect that things could get that much worse...
>the faggiest fag on the planet, complete with a leather biker stache, playing Marvel's Patriarch
God sure is a jokester...