Miles Teller Talks Fantastic Four

'The tone of this film is completely different from the last one'

Miles Teller has said one or two things lately that have probably caused classic comedy spit-takes from his agent and anyone involved in Divergent - frankly, we hope he never changes – but his latest quotes have been on the more diplomatic variety. The actor has been sharing some pointers on Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot, namely that it will be “different in every way” from the ill-starred 2005 and 2007 versions.

"The tone of this film is completely different,” stresses the new Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic to Vulture when comparing this Fantastic Four to its 2005 version and its 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. “I think that [a more grounded approach] is what people are into. You're dealing with these characters, but you're making them real people in how they exist day-to-day. People wanted it to be taken more seriously than the kind of Dick Tracy, kitschy, overly comic-book world.” There will be no “Michael Chiklis in a big Styrofoam thing”, Teller says.

“It's a big summer,” he points out of the superhero superhighway that is summer 2015. “There's a tonne of movies out there, so if people have an appetite for it, they'll see a couple, and if not, maybe they'll just see one.” Fantastic Four will vie with some big tentpoles for that audience; its opening weekend sets it against only Magic Mike 2, a comparative minnow in that pond, albeit a minnow with a six-pack, but Ant-Man, Terminator: Genisys and Jurassic World will all arrive in multiplexes within a month of its release.

For more on Miles Teller, head to Empire’s Stars of the Future gallery. For more on Fantastic Four, check out what Simon Kinberg has to say about his script for a blockbuster that also features Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Toby Kebbell right here.

from Empire News