It’s always nice to hear that a film wants to upgrade it’s visual effects. That usually means the director is paying attention and not just accepting what he’s got. He/she want to give the audience it’s moneys worth. However, it’s usually a BAD sign when a film (already nearing the end of shooting) has to do major script rewrites and changes nearly the entire 3rd act of the movie. The tells me that the movies’ management team couldn’t realize they had a bad ending when looking at the script they had in front of them and are now scrambling (scrambling is never a good thing) to re-do it on the fly.
With all that in mind, the good folks over at Dark Horizons give us this bit of good and very bad news:
With principal photography on the “Fantastic Four” film about to wrap, Cinescape now reports that the entire third act of the film has undergone extensive changes as a result of Pixar’s CGI family film “The Incredibles”. Seems after seeing the stretching effects of Elastigirl, the final battle sequence of FF needed to be beefed up, especially the similarly stretchable Mister Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd).
20th Century Fox apparently stepped up to the plate and coughed up more dough, anywhere up to an alleged $20 million in fact so Mister Fantastic could have more screen time to stretch across and some of the other characters may get some more action as well. On top of this, the third act has had to undergo a major rewrite. Writers and producers have been working overtime all through November and December as they thought about ways to better build up the film’s final battles and the resolution. This has lead to almost daily script changes in order to distance the FF ending from that of “The Incredibles”.
It sounds like this whole project has gotten totally out of control. Oh well, I guess we’ll really just have to wait and see how it turns out. Who knows… perhaps all this will lead to a great film experience for us the audience… but I doubt it.
