Fant4stic "It's Clobberin' Time!" - The Ben "Thing" Grimm Thread

[Paradox1]

Your right they look nothing alike, what was I thinking.

 

[RAE072]

Your right they look nothing alike, what was I thinking.

Exactly.

One's The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing, Idol of Millions.

The other is what some hack director thinks looks cool.

 

[wobbly]

Artists renditions published by Marvel are not copyrighted by the artist as they don't own the characters in question, so anyone's version of the Thing down the years is available for Fox to play with, be it Kirby, Buscema, Byrne, Wieringo, Hitch, etc etc.

They picked this design because that's what they wanted, end of story.

 

[lordofthenerds]

[YT]62UzLgdb1GQ[/YT]

 

[RAE072]

Artists renditions published by Marvel are not copyrighted by the artist as they don't own the characters in question, so anyone's version of the Thing down the years is available for Fox to play with, be it Kirby, Buscema, Byrne, Wieringo, Hitch, etc etc.

They picked this design because that's what they wanted, end of story.

Case in point, BayTurtles.

Once the movie came out, dozens of fully realized concept art was released. Ranging from something that would have been PERFECT and instantly recognizable as the Turtles to utterly god awful.

The production went with a median choice, though closer to awful and, according to an artist who worked on the film, Michael Bay saw the designs and said "make them bigger."

And then we got Hulk Shrek Turtles.

This Thing is the brainchild of dozens of concept artists and designers going through a spectrum of ideas ranging from perfect to awful, and THAT...is what they landed on.

Or rather, what a higher up decided on going with in between coke binges.

 

[RAE072]

[YT]62UzLgdb1GQ[/YT]

Hey now, that's not very nice.

Miles Teller isn't the BEST looking guy around but he does okay!

Spoiler

 

[lordofthenerds]

Hey now, that's not very nice.

Miles Teller isn't the BEST looking guy around but he does okay!

Spoiler

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[RAE072]

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[wobbly]

This...

Looks way too much like this imo (only alteration I did was to add an orange tint):

Just trim the top off the Kronan's head a bit and they'd be ringers.

 

[RAE072]

Literally the only difference is a slightly more pointed head on that Kronan.

Way to take my favorite FF character and make him look like generic rock monster #245, Fox.

Way. To. Go.

 

[wobbly]

Literally the only difference is a slightly more pointed head on that Kronan.

Way to take my favorite FF character and make him look like generic rock monster #245, Fox.

Way. To. Go.

Just for confirmation....

 

[RAE072]

Just for confirmation....

...yep, that's a spirit breaker.

 

[psylockolussus]

We should get a better look on the Thing.. the pic is a bit blurry and I guess the shot is not his best angle. And did the people here with an inside source said they got the look of the Thing right? Its far from horrud just not the ideal which could be the said to Mbj's Human Torch.

 

[Dasher10]

It kind of does. If you look closely past how low res and blurry it is combined with the glare, you can see that Ben still has a pronounced brow and his jaw appears to be cracked down the length of the join to allow him to open his mouth.

Fox's marketing department strikes again!

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

Doesn't look like the Thing on that Brazilian poster. Nothing at all.

Exactly. I'm good with the bust, but the poster has a very different face. I hope it's just the angle, but I'm afraid they changed the design in the wrong direction.

If it is just the angle, why the hell did Fox use such an unflattering angle for their first official look?

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Exactly. I'm good with the bust, but the poster has a very different face. I hope it's just the angle, but I'm afraid they changed the design in the wrong direction.

If it is just the angle, why the hell did Fox use such an unflattering angle for their first official look?

Yeah i'm with you on that! I hope we get something official soon.

 

[NHawk19]

Honestly I think if they'd color correct it so it wasn't as dark, and give him the blue eyes they'd be pretty close. All that would be left would be to smooth the brow a little, and get rid of the arched "eye brows". IMHO he may actually be the least of our concerns design wise.

 

[C. Lee]

If it is just the angle, why the hell did Fox use such an unflattering angle for their first official look?

Since the guys at FOX have never seen a comic book with the THING in it, how are they supposed to know hat is or isn't an unflattering angle for him?

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

Since the guys at FOX have never seen a comic book with the THING in it, how are they supposed to know hat is or isn't an unflattering angle for him?

t: Good point.

My real fear is this isn't just a bad angle. My fear is that people associated with the film looked at the design in the original bust and said: "This doesn't look like rock. This looks more like rocky plates. Let's make it lumpier and less regular so it looks more like rock."

The problem with that, as you and I know, is that Ben has always been depicted with rocky plates and not lumpy rocks.

We knew when we saw the bust that it might not be the final design. They could have tweaked it toward the comics and made it better, or they could have tweaked it away from the comics and made it worse. I'm afraid we now have evidence they did the latter.

 

[fantasticfan]

AMC Movie Talk guys chime in on the new poster and the banner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJnXnkaaTg&feature=youtu.be&a

 

[Miken Ayers]

t: Good point.

My real fear is this isn't just a bad angle. My fear is that people associated with the film looked at the design in the original bust and said: "This doesn't look like rock. This looks more like rocky plates. Let's make it lumpier and less regular so it looks more like rock."

The problem with that, as you and I know, is that Ben has always been depicted with rocky plates and not lumpy rocks.

We knew when we saw the bust that it might not be the final design. They could have tweaked it toward the comics and made it better, or they could have tweaked it away from the comics and made it worse. I'm afraid we now have evidence they did the latter.

In the comics they're literally scales. He's lost individual pieces before.

 

[RockSP]

I think he looks cool.

Heh. Yeah people are overreacting but hey that's the fanboy way. I probably won't pay to see this movie but it won't be because of how the Thing looks.

 

[Farren]

I think Thing is ... okay. I would have liked a more expressive face with distinct features, and I have to admit that I was hoping he'd look more rock-like in texture after having seen that rock cocoon in the trailer (I've said before that I'm of the mindset of that if this movie is going to aim to be very different from the source material, there's a part of me that wants it to go all the way with it).

So I don't love it but I don't hate it. Honestly I was expecting worse.

 

[Tony Stark]

From the leaked concept art to the prop, to the final poster design, you can see the evolution of their thinking, and amazingly it got worse as it went on.

 

[The Infernal]

The poster version looks like someone dropped the concept prop, it smashed into pieces and they tried to glue it back together again.