Fantastic Four writer Jeremy Slater explains that his initial drafts of the universally-panned 2015 superhero flick featured very different villains to the one that ended up in the film. Directed by Josh Trank with a script from Slater and X-Men: The Last Stand writer Simon Kinberg, the filmis perhaps the best example of how not to do a modern comic book movie reboot. With issues stemming from the initial production stages to troubled re-shoots, Fantastic Four was a box office bomb and picked up two Golden Raspberry Awards, for Worst Director and Worst Picture, with even star Jamie Bell now considering the film to be a disaster.
Similar to the mid-2000s attempt at a live-action Fantastic Four movie, the 2015 reboot saw the team go up against their classic adversary Dr. Doom, who was played by Toby Kebbell. Even though Kebbell was coming off an acclaimed turn as Koba in 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, his take on Dr. Doom was not as well-received; one of several aspects of Fantastic Four to earn negative reactions. Of course, Dr. Doom is hardly the only member of the Fantastic Four's rogues gallery, and some may wonder if the film would have turned out better with a different villain. At one point, the superheroes were set to face off against someone else entirely: Galactus.
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In an interview with ComicBbook, Slater outlines that his first draft for the film featured the Fantastic Four encountering Annihilus in the Negative Zone, where they would also encounter Galactus, who would then act as the film’s main villain. He also describes his second draft, which featured Annihilus again, but this time he was “20 feet tall and Cybernetic” and
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