6) Meet The Team
All four members of the team get a brief bit of the limelight in the trailer. We’ve already talked about Reed (who gets the most screentime), so now let’s move onto Sue, Ben and Johnny.
Sue Storm appears to work at some sort of government facility and is quickly seen gazing upon some high-tech surveillance or tracking system. In just two seconds, Josh Trank has managed to make Kate Mara’s version of the character 100x smarter than Jessica Alba’s.
Jamie Bell, meanwhile, has bulked up a bit for the role of Ben Grimm, the man who becomes The Thing. Fans were quick to cry foul at his casting, but he’s only doing the motion-capture work for his rockier form, which will be created through CGI. The shot of Ben pre-transformation makes him stand apart from Sue and Reed, providing more of a down-to-Earth, everyman feel to the character.
We’re also quickly introduced to Michael B. Jordan’s Johnny Storm, who’s seen sporting the go-to “cool guy” trope of working on an old car. Are he and Ben the less “science-y” of the Fab Four? Or are we just not glimpsing enough of their expertise in these brief shots?
Published: Jan 27, 2015 03:50 pm