The rebooted "Fantastic Four" will feature a new actor behind the mask of Doctor Doom. Toby Kebbell makes the villain more imposing and scary, if that's even possible, and he has revealed that he would like to wreak that same amount of fear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Speaking to Cinema Blend, Kebbell said that he wants to be a part of MCU just so he can go head to head with one of the Avengers. So who is this character he has been longing to beat?
"You know he destroys Thor. He punches up all those people," he said. "I don't know what the political... I can't get into this. You're going to write this, and I'm going to get destroyed. They're going to sue me, but look: can someone at Marvel and someone at Fox talk, and with Doom, just lend him out, like football? You can have him for the World Cup, that's it! Then just let me go - let me go and destroy Thor, for goodness sake. I'd love to work with those boys."
The rebooted "Fantastic Four" is directed by Josh Trank and stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards or Mr. Fantastic, Kate Mara as Sue Storm or The Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm or The Human Torch, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm of The Thing.
Trank really had his work cut out for him when he decided to direct the superhero movie, especially since people have strong views about the franchise and are highly critical of change. He insisted that people cannot keep making the same thing time and again and expect massive results, so he took a leap of faith.
"I knew it was going to get ugly," he admitted to the LA Times. "But I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong."
Producer Simon Kinberg, who has worked on several "X-Men" films agreed with him, and expressed confidence in Trank's work and vision. Trank told him that they should work on delivering the unexpected, and Kinberg admired his bravery and creativity.
"What hooked me was Josh's idea of what the honest reaction would be if you suddenly didn't have control over your body anymore - if you were uncontrollably on fire or invisible or you were a rock creature," Kinberg said. "That just seemed so original in a genre that it's hard to be original in."
