‘The Fantastic Four’ Doing Reshoots in Louisiana

Fantastic Four reshoots

Over the last week we’ve started to hear a lot about The Fantastic Four, with the biggest news being that the film is going in for reshoots in Louisiana. That data, combined with the fact that we have yet to see any official images or footage from the film, will probably create some more questions about precisely what’s up with the film.

We’d heard about the reshoots earlier this week — specifically that about a month of new shooting is planned, and that crew is contracted in Louisiana for three months of work. Bleeding Cool also ran details about reshoots today, and Badass Digest adds that at this point Josh Trank will be the person directing those reshoots. That was a bit of data we’d been waiting to confirm, in light of other ugly stories that have come out about the film in the past month or so.

We don’t know how much of these reshoots were planned in the original scheduling and budgeting for the film — in the same way that Marvel plans extensive additional shooting for each of its films — and how much comes out of a more problematic situation, as has been suggested by some.

At this point, we’re still in a position of waiting to see what’s really going on with Fox’s new take on the first major Marvel Comics superhero team. All we know is what little we’ve known for months: that the story is fairly heavily inspired by the Ultimates version of the team, and that the cast primarily includes

Miles Teller as Reed Richards, Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm (or the Human Torch, at least), and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm / The Thing, with Toby Kebbell as a hacker/blogger version of Doctor Doom. Simon Kinberg scripted from a draft by Jeremy Slater.