More comic book news than you can shake a stick at today folks! As rumored, a Silver Surfer spinoff film is now in the works with Sci-Fi scribe Michael Straczynski forging the script. We get the scoop from movieweb:
Feeling bullish on the eve of the release of its Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer, Fox has already put a feature spinoff into development that will star the enigmatic Surfer, with J. Michael Straczynski currently crafting the screenplay.
A longtime writer of television science fiction on The Twilight Zone and Babylon 5, Straczynski has also spent much of the last few years writing for Marvel Comics on properties like “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Thor”. Straczynski recently penned 15 issues of Fantastic Four for Marvel, and the first issue of his “Silver Surfer: Requiem” series just published last month, with three more in the works.
The Silver Surfer is a cool character, but the film that is about to introduce him has not even been released. I would certainly wait and see what the film’s reaction is, before you begin work on his own film. It sounds like they are trying to be pre-emptive in appeasing the fans…and that isn’t usually a good sign of things to come.
I am extremely skeptical about the upcoming Fantastic Four film. It is mostly related to the horrible Galactus news, and the waning quality of comic book films in general. I hope I am wrong, I hope this movie kicks ass, and then we can look forward to the Silver Surfer’s solo film with eager hearts. It will be hard to be excited about the spin off film if the origin story sucks.
