Toby Kebbell Talks Fantastic Four's Doctor Doom

His origin is being modified...

From the sounds of it, Josh Trank and the rest of the team working on Fox’s new iteration of The Fantastic Four are aiming to upend more than a few expectations about the Marvel superhero family team. And that, according to actor Toby Kebbell, extends to the villain, Doctor Doom.

At an event to promote Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes on Blu-ray, Collider got the actor behind the mask – or whatever he ends up wearing – talking about the character. I’m excited to see it too,” says Kebbell. The only thing I can tease you about is what I worked on most was the voice because nobody – even in the cartoons, when I was watching them I was like, ‘so where’s he from?’ There’s a mild change. He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours: I’m a programmer. A very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m ‘Doom’.”

Yes, it sounds like there are plenty of changes afoot for the film, which also features Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan as the titular superheroes. Kebbell seems happy with the way Trank has gone about making this version different from the films that were released in 2005 and 2007. “Josh, the whole deal, the lo-fi way he did it, the ultra-real. It was just nice to do that. It was nice to be feeling like we had to come to terms with what was given by this incident.”

The Fantastic Four will hit UK cinemas on August 6 next year.

from Empire News