Filmstalker: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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Rise of the Silver Surfer

Yes, that's the new title for Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Bit of a mouthful, could we drop the Fantastic Four bit please?

With this new title there's a nice little tease that we might just be looking at more appearances from the Surfer in the future, so no matter how Surfer-Lite this film gets played there's hope that he might get his own outing in the future.

Yet with such a big placing in the title, and such a dramatic one as well, you can't help but think that Surfer is going to feature heavily in this film. Which do you think? Surfer-Lite or Surfer-Phat?

Written by Richard Brunton on August 17, 2006 | Permalink

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Sounds Surfer-Phat. And like you mentioned, it sounds like they're setting him up for his own movie.

And let's not forget why there's a Silver Surfer in the first place--I'm hoping we get at least a peek at Galactus.

Posted by: Smoo | August 17, 2006 6:44 PM

They really should drop the FF4 and just do a Surfer movie, all the excitement is for the surfer no one really cares about another FF4 movie.

Posted by: bullet in the head | August 18, 2006 10:08 AM

I can see why they're doing it this way, at least--it's kind of like when you temper eggs to bring them slowly to the temperature of whatever you're cooking. If they put the Surfer in a movie with already-recognizable characters, or at least in recognizable settings, they can better warm up the audiences for a full Silver Surfer experience. I just don't know why they're putting him in the F4 movie. It's almost like they're asking for an assist. It would be really cool to see him in Spiderman.

Posted by: Smoo | August 18, 2006 5:19 PM

Actually I think they're not as positive as warming up the audience, I think they're testing the water to see how well Surfer would be received. If it does well and their demographics say that Surfer was a lot to do with it then you'll probably find we'll get a full Surfer film.

So keep hoping.

Posted by: Richard Brunton | August 18, 2006 5:42 PM