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Casting the best and most perfect Marvel Cinematic Universe Fantastic Four movie…ever

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Fantastic-Four

It’s official! Disney just bought a whole stack of the Marvel movie rights back from 20th Century FOX, in a deal that cost ludicrous amounts of cash. With various characters well on their way back to the house of mouse, there’s a certain sense of hope in the air that we’ll finally get a decent Fantastic Four movie out of the deal. After all, Marvel’s first family of explorers who regularly traverse the multiverse deserve to be incorporated into the massively successful Marvel Cinematic Universe.

They’re a cornerstone of the comic books that heroes such as Spider-Man, Captain America and Thor call home. They’re the spark that kicked off the fire of the Silver Age of comics, a team whose bonds were forged in space and cosmic radiation that made them more than human but never tempted them to use their abilities for anything other than altruistic purposes.

After several disastrous big screen attempts to translate that bond to the big screen, a push of the reset key is needed. So who would you cast in the roles of Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and The Thing? Which actors could give the Fantastic Four some overdue justice and see some clobberin’ time carried out at the box office? We have a few ideas…

Nicolas Cage as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic

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For Mister Fantastic, you need an actor that can bend his silver screen talents to the max. A man who is flexible, has an IQ that cannot be measured and also happens to be a great father. Hell, how does Nicolas Cage not suit that role? He was daddy of the year in Kickass (NOW SWITCH TO KRYPTONIIIIIIIITE), he’s had a few superhero tussles in the vastly underrated Ghost Rider movies and he played a genius with a taste for adventure in The Rock.

Perfect qualities, that all make for the Reed Richards that audiences deserve to see on the screen. You could say that it’s not too much of a stretch to see him suiting up.

Nicolas Cage as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman

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Confidence, care and Cage. The three perfect C’s that would result in the perfect Invisible Woman being seen on the big screen. While Jessica Alba’s Invisible Woman was a character whose entire premise boiled down to her shouting “Let’s” and then blasting enemies away with a wave of CGI farts, Nicolas Cage could be so much better.

For an actor who puts out roughly three hundred films a year so that he can cover the cost of his crippling dinosaur fossil addiction, Cage is an expert in lying low and staying under the radar. Basically, he’s already mastered the art of turning himself invisible, much like Drax did in Avengers: Infinity War. Somebody slap a blonde wig on Cage already.

Nicolas Cage as Johnny Storm/ The Human Torch

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True story: For Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage didn’t have to rely on something like CGI to transform into the spirit of vengeance. Every day, he’d willingly wash his face with petrol and set it on fire for all of his scenes, growing his flesh back by the next morning. I don’t have to prove this statement because I’m not under oath, but what I can do is provide the same clip of KRYPTONIIIIIIITE from above because I never get tired of seeing that scene from Kickass:

Anyway, I’m not saying that we should set Nicolas Cage on fire, because the man already has acting skills that are lit. Yo.

Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Grimm/ The Thing

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Some people say that seeing Michael Chiklis in a rubber suit is the lowest point of the Fantastic Four franchise history. I say that we can and should do better, and even if we had a budget of pennies, watching Nic Cage spout familiar one-liners while running around with bits of orange cardboard superglued to his skin would still be an Oscar-worthy performance.

Trust me folks, it would totally be clobberin’ time for Aunt Petunia’s favourite blue-eyed and ever-loving relative from Yancy Street if Industrial Light and Magic decided to dress the National Treasure thespian up in an entire mountain’s worth of rubble trouble CGI.

Nicolas Cage as Doctor Doom

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Shunned by society, his genius overlooked and clearly decades ahead of the curve…How is Nicolas Cage not Doctor Doom already? For a villain who has the might, intelligence and diplomatic immunity needed to match the power of Marvel’s first family, you need an antagonist who represents a danger that only a coordinated team of cosmic adventurers can stand against.

Nicolas Cage is that danger, Nicolas Cage is a menace whose sheer acting skills are so deadly that they could shake reality apart if they were left unchecked and unrestrained. We’re all alive by the sheer grace of Cage, our lord and saviour who saved that bunny in Con Air. That’s not a movie, that’s actually a true story made from documentary footage.

The point is, is that the idea of a Latverian super-scientist who happens to be cloaked in hatred, mysticism and an armour that was forged by an evil sect of reclusive anti-buddhists isn’t that far-fetched . After all, that’s the life that Cage currently leads as he plots his revenge on mankind for not making The Sorceror’s Apprentice the box office smash that it was supposed to be.

Nicolas Cage as f***ing HERBIE

C.A.G.I.E

Was HERBIE the worst thing ever in the Fantastic Four cartoon, the Jar Jar Binks of the 1970s? Yes and yes dammit. But is HERBIE beyond redemption? Not when you have Snake Eyes legend Nicolas Cage voicing, motion-capturing piloting the wonderful action figure advert of tomorrow. And that’s our list! Do you have any ideas for actors who’d be better than Nicolas Cage in any of the roles above? Then shut up, because I don’t want to hear it and you know I’m right.

Last Updated: August 14, 2018

22 Comments

  1. This article gave me a good chuckle?

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    • The D

      August 14, 2018 at 14:12

      My work here is done!
      #FliesAway

      Reply

  2. Original Heretic

    August 14, 2018 at 14:16

    I’d only make one change.
    Tommy Wiseau as Torch.

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  3. Admiral Chief

    August 14, 2018 at 14:20

    Directed by Nic Cage

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  4. Geoffrey Tim

    August 14, 2018 at 14:23

    What the fuck is wrong with you, Darryn?

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    • Original Heretic

      August 14, 2018 at 14:24

      It’s those dunked wings gooping up his brain.

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    • Pariah

      August 14, 2018 at 14:26

      Whatever it is, it’s not a small thing. But it is rather entertaining. 😀

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    • The D

      August 14, 2018 at 14:26

      …Lots.

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    • Magoo

      August 15, 2018 at 09:26

      He was born like that!

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  5. Kromas

    August 14, 2018 at 14:30

    I would have liked The Rock as The Thing. 🙂

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  6. For the Emperor!

    August 14, 2018 at 14:30

    The article header/thumbnail thingy on the main page is really click-baity you son of a dunked chicken wing!

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  7. MaSeKind

    August 14, 2018 at 14:54

    Well to be honest I think Nic Cage could do well as the Human Torch.
    What they should do is the opposite of the previous film and go for older actors.
    Fantastic Four: The twilight years.
    Then you can explain Nic’s bizarre acting as the result of Johnny Storm inhaling all those fumes and shit for too long.

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  8. Pariah

    August 14, 2018 at 14:58

    This article is conclusive proof that Darryn can’t be Caged.

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  9. Nick Bryson

    August 15, 2018 at 00:41

    I disagree with all of this, Nicholas Cage as the thing? He’s too small and thin. The invisible woman? Obviously a womans role. Human torch? Nah too weird. Herbie? He just doesn’t have the right voice for it. Dr. Doom? No way, not tough enough. Mr. Fantastic? Maybe, but not exactly. Just because Nicholas Cage is in a lot of movies doesn’t mean he should be in every movie.

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  10. Andre116

    August 16, 2018 at 14:03

    Have you considered the guy who played the lead in Con Air for any of the roles? He rocked.

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