Galactus To Be A No Show On Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer?
Written by Robert Sanchez Tuesday, 13 February 2007 There has been speculation about it for some time and now Reed Richards himself, Ioan Gruffudd, spills the beans. Galactus will be a no show in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver.
Capone over at AICN was able to speak to Ioan about his upcoming film Amazing Grace and of course Fan Four was sure to come up.
C: Okay, I'm going to carefully broach the subject of the next FANTASTIC FOUR movie. I spoke to Doug Jones recently and he was very generous with some of the details, or at least what he was allowed to talk about. Obviously, we're tracking the film very closely. There's definitely a growing enthusiasm about the film, due in no small part to the Silver Surfer storyline. The trailer is out there now. What do you think of it?
IG: I think it's fantastic. I'm very excited about it because it takes our movie and our franchise to a whole new level. It's up there now where they're comparing the effects to those of the SPIDER-MAN movies, which is a film that is $100 million more expensive than our movie, and rightfully so, it's an awesome franchise. I think the fans will not be disappointed. It is as he arrived in the comic books. He's an ambiguous character. Is he the protagonist or evil, or just the messenger of evil? We're not quite sure.
C: I'm just going to ask: does Galactus play a role in this film?
IG: Um...his presence is felt in the movie. He doesn't physically appear, no. Galactus does have a form, doesn't he, in the comic books?
C: Actually he has a really beautifully designed costume that Jack Kirby created. It's a fairly elaborate costume actually with all sorts of machinations. When I first heard that the Silver Surfer would be in this second film and people were being a bit evasive about whether Galactus appeared, I'd assumed that the second film would set up the coming of Galactus, and that the actual confrontation with him would occur in the third film.
IG: It's more of a finite movie than the first one. It's not open-ended in that sense. But Galactus doesn't actually appear, so it does leave room for that possibility.
Note : As I thought. No show here. Battle 3rd film, which would please me no end. Way it should be.

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