Julian McMahon talks FF2

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This should end all the lingering doubts about whether or not Julian will be joining the rest of the cast. At the concluding TV critics meet and greet out in Hollywood, Julian was asked about FF2. I like how Ryan Murphy and the network are committed to doing all they can to make it happen. But it is kind of surprising that he says there's no final script yet, that he has seen anyway. That's going to make it a bit harder to prepare one would imagine.

Also interesting is this is the second time he has joked about a robot duplicate of Doom by referencing the Austin Powers femme-bot. I would have liked to have given him a nudge and said "It's Doombot, Julian". :)


Link: http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=3181
LOCATION: Dr. Doom’s lair


THE SKINNY:
While promoting the fourth season of NIP/TUCK today, that series’ star Julian McMahon revealed to iF that he is indeed going to be returning as Dr. Doom in FANTASTIC FOUR AND THE SILVER SURFER.


"We haven’t got a script yet," says McMahon. "The script hasn’t been put out and I’m not going to start until the end of August or September. Right now, I’m literally every day, 16 hours a day on NIP/TUCK."


Of course, he will be shooting both the movie and the new season of NIP/TUCK simultaneously but NIP/TUCK creator Ryan Murphy says that it was important to accommodate McMahon’s schedule to do both.


"With success comes success," says Murphy. "And if you get an opportunity to do a sequel to a hugely fantastic movie, do I want to help one of my lead actors to do that? Absolutely. So we have accommodated that and we will. I think that’s important. To say, ‘no,’ and stomp your foot when you can move dates around and make things available to the actors is the right thing to do, so we’re doing that."


While McMahon is a big fan of the comics, he says he’s not quite sure where Doom will be heading in the sequel.


"There are so many [stories]," he admits. "Obviously the Marvel world is split up between a bunch of different property ownership, so what you can do and what you can’t do, depends on who owns it. Fox owns a certain part of it and Marvel owns a certain part of it and that really tells us where we’re going. They come up with the ideas and scripts and I just perform."


Since Doom was completely covered in his costume by the end of the first FANTASTIC FOUR, the big question comes – is he just providing a voice, or will he actually be seen on screen.


McMahon smiles and says, "No, actually, it’s mostly me -- like me. I haven’t got a script yet, but I’ve been told Dr. Doom creates a Femme-bot like copy of himself or something. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know ... I’m kidding."


So is he joking or is this really going to happen in the film?


"I’m kind of joking, but I know that idea was out there, so I thought it was funny," says McMahon who then adds, "I don’t think there is going to be as many prosthetics. That was tough. I would rather not do it again, but at the same time, I’ve signed up to do what I need to do."


During this summer’s hiatus from his series, McMahon starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the new suspense film PREMONITION due out March 9, 2006.


"It’s a psychological thriller," he says. "I play her husband. It’s a hard one to talk about. The best way to describe it is she wakes up one morning, with her beautiful happy life and her wonderful husband and children to find out her husband has been killed. And she wakes up the next morning and he’s not and the movie continues down that path."
 
I'm really excited he's coming back. I liked him in the first movie....

(runs and hides under table and fears being stoned)
 
x-alias said:
I'm really excited he's coming back. I liked him in the first movie....(runs and hides under table and fears being stoned)

Which way did he go??:mad:

;)
 
I have a lot of respect for him as an actor.


. . . I'm just not convinced he's right for the part.

I hope he'll play it a bit differently this time. More menacing, less cheeky.
 
x-alias said:
I'm really excited he's coming back. I liked him in the first movie....

(runs and hides under table and fears being stoned)

I liked him as well, your not the only one.
 
As I only discovered the Fantastic Four when Ioan landed the role of Reed, I didn't have any preconceived notions of what Doom should be like. So that being said, I liked Julian in the part....other than the fact that I don't think his voice is quite strong or deep enough to play an evil villian. But still, he did a good job I thought.

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but is it normal for a script for a movie not to be ready this close to shooting? I find this a bit bizarre!!! :(

Thanks for finding this interview Iron Maiden! :up:

Kathy :)
 
Willie Lumpkin said:
I hope he'll play it a bit differently this time. More menacing, less cheeky.


Aye, but I think a lot of that has less to do with his acting prowess and more to do with stupid writing. He was given really bad material to work from. I mean seriously, "Marco Polo"? What the hell? Now that's cheeky.


Iron Maiden said:
"I’ve been told Dr. Doom creates a Femme-bot like copy of himself or something. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know ... I’m kidding."


I'm going to continue to cross my fingers that what's being shipped back on that Latverian freighter is indeed a Doombot--which would retcon a lot of what the pseudo-Doom we saw in the first film. His comment above gives me hope.

Now please, let's all join hands...and pray. :cool:
 
Lightning Strikez! said:
I'm going to continue to cross my fingers that what's being shipped back on that Latverian freighter is indeed a Doombot--which would retcon a lot of what the pseudo-Doom we saw in the first film. His comment above gives me hope.

Now please, let's all join hands...and pray. :cool:

Hmm, interesting concept... hadn't thought of it that way.

Seeing as how Doombots are supposed to behave as if they were really Doom... unless in the presence of Doom himself, or other 'bots... it might make some sense.

At what point would the Doombot have taken over?
 
Lightning Strikez! said:
I'm going to continue to cross my fingers that what's being shipped back on that Latverian freighter is indeed a Doombot.

If they can find a way to get that across sensibly, that could be quite a surprise. We would see the Doom from FF1 being "revived" by persons unseen, but then he's blasted to pieces and called a failure by...the real Doom. Could work.
 
Lightning Strikez! said:
Aye, but I think a lot of that has less to do with his acting prowess and more to do with stupid writing. He was given really bad material to work from. I mean seriously, "Marco Polo"? What the hell? Now that's cheeky.

I wonder if that was one of Tim Rothman's "suggestions"? I remember an interview where Julian said he was doing that during the shoot. I think Julian has shown that he can be really menacing in a low key (waits to swat Obi Wan if he uses the "Loki" pun again :) )kind of way. There's a couple of episodes of Nip/Tuck that come to mind. Heck, or go back to when he was Cole Turner taken over by the Source on "Charmed"

I keep saying you gotta go back to the type of performance Anthony Hopkins gives as Hannibal Lector. Brilliant mind that can run rings around you logically but you don't want to get too close to him when it's dinner time. In other words, you can project an air of menace/danger with a bit more subtlety.

Lightning Strikez! said:
I'm going to continue to cross my fingers that what's being shipped back on that Latverian freighter is indeed a Doombot--which would retcon a lot of what the pseudo-Doom we saw in the first film. His comment above gives me hope.
Now please, let's all join hands...and pray. :cool:

Or maybe at some point in the new movie Victor uses the mind swap trick to get out of the metallic body and builds himself a new one, more like SHIELD's LMDs (that's Life Model Decoys to those not familiar)
 
Originally posted by Malus
If they can find a way to get that across sensibly, that could be quite a surprise. We would see the Doom from FF1 being "revived" by persons unseen, but then he's blasted to pieces and called a failure by...the real Doom. Could work.

That would be rad. :up:
 
I just really want to see him take over this time around. I would also like to see a MUCH LONGER battle between him and the Four. The first movie's was good, but not long enough.
 
AnotherIoanFan said:
but is it normal for a script for a movie not to be ready this close to shooting? I find this a bit bizarre!!!

Last I read POTC 3 started filming with no complete script but they had an idea with the Story they wanted to finsih
 
Iron Maiden said:
Or maybe at some point in the new movie Victor uses the mind swap trick to get out of the metallic body and builds himself a new one, more like SHIELD's LMDs (that's Life Model Decoys to those not familiar)

That's feasible too.

The good thing about this franchise (as compared to X-Men) is that it's not grounded too heavily in reality. I mean, we are getting the fricken Silver Surfer and possibly the Great Intergalactic Barney himself! :eek::up: So if they can *go there* with those fantasy elements, mindswapping is no longer a farfetched possibility.

Hell, Charles did it in The Last Stand. Victor would do it better. ;)
 
AnotherIoanFan said:
As I only discovered the Fantastic Four when Ioan landed the role of Reed, I didn't have any preconceived notions of what Doom should be like. So that being said, I liked Julian in the part....other than the fact that I don't think his voice is quite strong or deep enough to play an evil villian. But still, he did a good job I thought.

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but is it normal for a script for a movie not to be ready this close to shooting? I find this a bit bizarre!!! :(

Thanks for finding this interview Iron Maiden! :up:

Kathy :)

Agreed, he's no Bale:D
 
Not sure whether he is pulling everyones leg with the Doombot reference but I'm not liking this thing of filming simultaneouslyJessica is doing that also and that's not how to make a top class blockbuster IMO
 
COME ON ! said:
Agreed, he's no Bale:D

Nor, should he be....they are two different people, with two different styles. If the director did not tell him, hey Julian, "could you maybe make your voice deeper and more menacing"....then who is to blame....certainly not Julian's acting ability.:)
 
COME ON ! said:
Agreed, he's no Bale:D


Thank Galactus! I hated that scratchy, fake ass voice he used for Batman. His Bruce Wayne voice would have been much better. Where's Michael Keaton when you need him?


:thing: :doom: :thing:
 
Franklin Richards said:
Thank Galactus! I hated that scratchy, fake ass voice he used for Batman. His Bruce Wayne voice would have been much better. Where's Michael Keaton when you need him?


:thing: :doom: :thing:

Bale has said that when he was in the Bat suit he portrayed Batman as an animal. His deep, scary Batman voice was really cool IMO
 
Julian is back!!!He don't read yet the script cause he will enter on production a few later...I think!
 
JMAfan said:
Nor, should he be....they are two different people, with two different styles. If the director did not tell him, hey Julian, "could you maybe make your voice deeper and more menacing"....then who is to blame....certainly not Julian's acting ability.:)

I didn't say it was his fault either. The director and writers are to blame here. Hopefully they'll make him a little more menacing next time:) :up:
 
Fantastic-Boy said:
Julian is back!!!He don't read yet the script cause he will enter on production a few later...I think!

Yea. Filming starts August 15th. He said end of August beginning of September, before they will need him. So thats about 2 weeks into filming before they need him. So he will not be at the beginning of the film. So how big of a roll will he have ? Doom-bot ? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Interesting.
 
Carp Man said:
Yea. Filming starts August 15th. He said end of August beginning of September, before they will need him. So thats about 2 weeks into filming before they need him. So he will not be at the beginning of the film. So how big of a roll will he have ? Doom-bot ? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Interesting.

That doesn't mean he's not in the begining of the film.
 
liesse00 said:
That doesn't mean he's not in the begining of the film.

True they don't film in the sequence of the script....
 
Franklin Richards said:
Thank Galactus! I hated that scratchy, fake ass voice he used for Batman. His Bruce Wayne voice would have been much better. Where's Michael Keaton when you need him?


:thing: :doom: :thing:

Oh man, I am with you on that. I almost busted out laughing when I heard his Batman voice. It sounded like the guy who used to be on Hart to Hart, an old time actor from the 1930's named Lionel Stander. And I don't want to get into a Keaton vs Bale debate over here since you are always going to favor your era's over the new. But yeah, I liked Keaton better. Just my opinion for what it is worth.
 

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