Should Uatu be in the film?

[King Ruler]

Should Uatu have an appearance in the film, as maybe a voice doing a an opening monolgue about his job as a Watcher, Galactus and the Silver Surfer? Or maybe he could have arrived on Earth to warn of the Silver Surfer's coming, but was attacked and is weak, and now the U.S. Government has him in their custody, and he wishes to speak to the Fantastic Four or something along those lines.

Your thoughts?

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Hmmm...not this time. Perhaps for the third film. They are already going to "take it there", but there will be enough to assimilate without bringing the Watcher into the mix.

The most important thing will be keeping the focus on the addition of Silver Surfer without losing the core four. And that's no easy feat.

 

[Spider-Fan]

No, this movie is crowded as is, and adding Uatu will only add another character we need to explain. If they extend the Galactus/Surfer story to a third film, then he should be in there helping them beat Galactus. As far as this one, the time is just not right for him.

 

[Malus]

Should Uatu have an appearance in the film, as maybe a voice doing a an opening monolgue about his job as a Watcher, Galactus and the Silver Surfer? Or maybe he could have arrived on Earth to warn of the Silver Surfer's coming, but was attacked and is weak, and now the U.S. Government has him in their custody, and he wishes to speak to the Fantastic Four or something along those lines.

Your thoughts?

In my opinion, the opening should have nothing to do with the Surfer; there should have no indication of what's coming. We need to see an opening sequence that shows the FF gaining experience, spinning newspaper headlines, snippets of tv news coverage, some villain cameos...
I'm all for being faithful to the source material, but the Watcher had been introduced almost 40 issues before Galactus, and had appeared numerous times. We already knew who he was, and the fact that this seemingly omnipotent being was scared of what this new seemingly all-powerful being might do to the Earth...that was scary and built suspense.
But the Watcher is not pre-established, and it may just be too much to try to cram in and maintain the suspension of disbelief necessary.

As for an injured, weakened Watcher in the custody of the government?
A thousand times NO.

 

[X-Maniac]

A voiceover might be nice. It works in Superman (Jor-El) and X-Men (Xavier).
Whether it would be too random to have it being done by the Watcher is debatable. I certainly think the Watcher wouldn't work visually at this point, only as an unseen narrator. And people might be expecting to see him if they heard him.

 

[Malus]

If they intend to use the Watcher, I just hope they use him in some manner resembling his role in the original story.
Introducing the audience to two God-like beings in the course of one movie? I just can't see it working, unless Galactus really is a last-minute reveal to set up the third film. And I don't see Fox banking on that 3rd film before FF2 proves the franchise remains viable.

Who knows what we'll get.

 

[TripleF]

If Uatu is another character, excuse my ignorance on this matter, then NO. Theres already enough pulling from the 4 as it is in this movie.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I have no idea who or what a Uatu is. But i'm sure it's not needed right now.

 

[MattC]

I have no idea who or what a Uatu is. But i'm sure it's not needed right now.

You can read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uatu

 

[Cyrusbales]

No Uatu, if they're gonna ruin silver surfer and galactus, they don't need to screw up Uatu aswel! lol

 

[Fantastic-Boy]

Third!!!

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

For the most part, I like the idea of the film being faithful to the comics . . .



. . . but, there are a couple problems with the Watcher in this film.

1. We haven't met him, we don't know anything about him, so, unlike the original, he would have to be introduced rather than being an already known character and that won't work as well.

2. I like the idea of the Surfer being more mysterious in his origin and motivations than he was in the comic story. I think it would be much more interesting to have this incredibly powerful character show up but not know why he's there.

 

[Malus]

I like the idea of the Surfer being more mysterious in his origin and motivations than he was in the comic story. I think it would be much more interesting to have this incredibly powerful character show up but not know why he's there.

That's what I hope they're doing.
I think if they try to introduce the Surfer via some ham-handed prologue or voice-over by the Watcher (ugh) they will seriously blow it. I hope they just pick up the story with Reed & Sue's wedding preparations and go from there.
An opening credits montage of news clips and photos hinting at recent adventures would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Silvermoth]

No Uatu. The movie would be laughed out of the cinema

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Oh, Uatu is the one thing that will make the audience laugh? Not the giant purple world eater?

There's more of a chance of the general audience being turned off by Galactus than Uatu.

 

[Retroman]

Watcher is kind of an intergral part of the SS/Galactus story so i'm inclined to say that he should be included.But if Fox want another film thats less than 2 hours long then its going to be hard to work him in.

I have my dooubts though since we've already got a lots of inconsistencies comics-to-film. For example the Human Torch doesn't have blond hair, Alicia is african american, Ben doesn't smoke cigars, Doom is Donald Trump wannabe and so forth.Not saying these changes were wrong but it is a sign that they could do something different from thats not been done in the comics.I'm interested how Story and co. deal with this issue. Go all out classic? Or a variation?

 

[Malus]

Should Uatu be in the film?

I didn't even know they were filming in Hawaii.






Thank you. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitresses.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Oh, Uatu is the one thing that will make the audience laugh? Not the giant purple world eater?

There's more of a chance of the general audience being turned off by Galactus than Uatu.

True. Then again, they may just decide to retcon all things comic book and make Galactus and Uatu one and the same.

Spoiler

Ya know....kinda like Cyclops and Wolverine in er uh...X3?

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Watcher is kind of an intergral part of the SS/Galactus story so i'm inclined to say that he should be included.But if Fox want another film thats less than 2 hours long then its going to be hard to work him in.

I have my dooubts though since we've already got a lots of inconsistencies comics-to-film. For example the Human Torch doesn't have blond hair, Alicia is african american, Ben doesn't smoke cigars, Doom is Donald Trump wannabe and so forth.Not saying these changes were wrong but it is a sign that they could do something different from thats not been done in the comics.I'm interested how Story and co. deal with this issue.

Agreed.

And im all for an appearance by The Watcher. In the '90s toon, he never appeared prior to the Galactus episode, and it worked out pretty good.

 

[blah]

Mybe they should show him at the very end, reveleaing that he was "watching" everything.
MUAAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Ahura Mazda]

Well the Watcher is needed if you bring the Ultimate Nullyfier into play or not if you want it to happen some other way.

Of course, I think the first question is which Galactus we are getting. If it is 616, how else could he be defeated by a deus ex machina if some other creature was not there to procure it for him.

I have read the FF4 comic showing the first appearance of Galactus and the first thing it shows is how ineffectual the FF4 is against him and it is only through the procurement of the UN that the FF4 prevail.

Anyways, thinking about this, I do not think there is enough time that would be allotted to do a full adaptation that would include Uatu in under 4 hours and unless we are talking a two parter I would go down another path.

Right now to be honest, my primary concern is how the story will be treated and the look of Galactus. For if we end up seeing robotic drones on screen I will be very dissappointed.

 

[Malus]

In my opinion, the best "defeat" Galactus suffered was in FF #123, when Reed was able to get aboard G's orbiting ship (while Galactus was physically on Earth)and threatened to set it to self-destruct unless Galactus vowed to leave and never return. I liked that a lot more than the "Ultimate Nullifier" scenario because it was the result of the FF's actions.

 

[LadyMoira]

I would actually kind of like to see Uatu doing a voiceover and maybe occasional narrative of the events that occur.

 

[Aquaman]

Honestly...I like the idea. But, IMO it would require almost a different beginning to the first movie.

It would have been cool to have the first movie start with Uatu's narrative. Sure...it could be corny, but I think it would have been a great beginning...giving a grander scale to the F4. I guess to begin with it wouldn't have worked because there was not a big way of knowing whether or not there would be a sequel. But it could have been a little thing talking about the mysteries of the universe and family and heroes and it could end with a shot of the storm heading toward earth.

Then with the second one there could be another narrative that hints at the challenges that are coming and you see maybe something silver fly through space and then cut to earth...la-de-da.

Maybe thats a bad idea. I just think it'd be a cool way to tell the story....bookended by the narratives of The Watcher.

 

[Malus]

Should Uatu be in the film?

I didn't even know they were filming in Hawaii.