One of the film’s screenwriters reveals the better movie we almost got instead.
, we look back at a recent, high-profile failure and ask a simple question: What the hell happened? In this installment... the comic that launched Marvel Comics. A cast of beloved up-and-comers. One of the hottest young directors in Hollywood. A bold attempt to reinvent the superhero genre.
Cut to a “One Year Later” title card, and suddenly we’re in another movie, with characters behaving totally differently than they did seconds earlier . Several actors look different too .’s second half makes any sense. The Thing is supposedly used on “covert” operations, but there’s nothing covert about a giant rock man who doesn’t wear pants.
With so much money on the line, it makes sense that executives would want to protect their investment . But I’m baffled why they don’t just play it safe in the first place. How do you start with a weird, serious and wind up with the Thing punching Doctor Doom into a giant sky laser? I reached out to Jeremy Slater, one of the three credited screenwriters of the film, who offered a few insights into early versions of the script, and the thinking behind these massive tentpoles.
Minus Annihilus and calling Planet Zero the Negative Zone, the outline is basically the same as the finished movie. According to Slater, the difference is tone and structure. He preferred stuff with “lots of humor, lots of heart, lots of spectacle,” while Trank preferred something “grounded, gritty, and as realistic as possible.” And while all of the aforementioned events took place by page 45 of the early 130-page draft, in the final movie, they take up almost the entire runtime.
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