I love the Surfer but I'm worried that he'll take too much of the spotlight. I have so many great FF comics that does NOT have a thing to do with the silver dude - Give my favorite team a chance to shine! Please!
Many of the greatest FF stories introduced characters that went on to become mainstays of the Marvel universe. The period that many consider to be the series' finest (roughly #45-60) introduced the Inhumans, Galactus & the Silver Surfer, the Black Panther...All of these are characters and concepts that have remained on the canvas pretty-much non-stop for 40 years.
If the FF movies end up launching another successful franchise or two, that's fine by me. I don't understand why some are fearful that there's automatically going to be a serious reduction in screen time for the FF...?
I really don't think the FF themselves are gonna lose
that much screen time. Certainly no more than the average Superman or Spider-man movie gives over to
their antagonists.
That's the basic structure of all superhero stories. And one hallmark of Marvel stories(at least in the early days) was that the villains were often just as interesting as the heroes.
A lot of fans felt that the 90's Batman films ended up as showcases for "celebrity" villains. Nicholson, Schwarzenegger, Pfeiffer, Carey, etc. and that this took too much of the spotlight away from Batman. I see their point.
I can see this happening even easier in a film that has FOUR lead characters, but I don't know, I'm still not too worried about it.
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