Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer

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TV Spot

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Fishburne voices Surfer
Actor joins 'Fantastic Four' sequel
Source: Variety

Laurence Fishburne is waxing his board for sequel "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."

Actor will voice the role of the Silver Surfer in the summer tentpole, which 20th Century Fox bows June 15.

Internet buzz had suggested that Fishburne was up to voice the role of the evil Galactus, but the studio hasn't decided whether Galactus will even speak. Silver Surfer, who rides his surfboard through space, is the herald for the planet-destroying Galactus.

Fishburne, who has strong credibility among fanboys for his role in the "Matrix" franchise, joined "Silver Surfer" this week.

Sequel reteams "Fantastic Four" director Tim Story with topliners Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards, Jessica Alba as Susan Storm, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm.

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not that i care about this movie in the slightest, and apologies for making this thread longer, but the movie comes out in 2 months.  have they really just now cast him as the voice?  because that doesnt seem like very much time to do all of his facial animation.  tim story sucks.

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Full Trailer here.

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Fishburne voices Surfer

not in time for that trailer.. unless he had his balls removed.

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New Trailer

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It's curtains for a critical projectionist

A Memphis, Tenn., projectionist working for the Malco Theatre chain has lost his job after writing an unauthorized early review of 20th Century Fox's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" for the Web site Ain't It Cool News.

Jesse Morrison, the projectionist, claims that Fox was behind Malco's decision to suspend him for an undetermined period. The studio denied the charge.

While studios and filmmakers have endured early reviews of their movies, both negative and positive, on Web sites since the early days of the Internet, the incident might mark the first time someone working in the entertainment industry has lost a job for voicing an early opinion online.

On Saturday, www.AintItCool.com posted a negative review by Morrison (writing under his online moniker Memflix) under the headline "Memflix crushes all hope for 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.' "

A 29-year-old film, video and journalism major at the University of Memphis, Morrison worked for $7 an hour at the Ridgeway Four, next door to Malco's home office. He picked up further compensation by readying movie prints for exhibitor and press screenings, which allowed him during the past year to write reviews of such movies as "Disturbia," "Vacancy" and "Spider-Man 3" for Ain't It Cool. He also wrote reviews for Malco's movie blog and a circular distributed at the theater.

On Monday, two days after his "Silver Surfer" pan appeared, Morrison was called into a meeting with Malco senior vp Jimmy Tashie and, according to Morrison, was "suspended until further notice," with the suggestion that he would not be asked to return.

Morrison said Tashie pointed out that "20th Century Fox called them that morning and threatened to take away the press and trade screenings because of this whole thing. They were upset."

Asked if Fox had any role in the suspension, Tashie said: "Absolutely none." The exec said his company received a call from Fox that said "there's somebody there working for (Malco) who is writing reviews in advance. That's all they said. No one asked us to do anything. We have been in business 95 years, and this is the first time anything like this happened. And this boy knew what he was doing was the wrong thing. ... He was in a position of trust and he violated that trust."

Drew McWeeney, known as "Moriarty" on the Ain't It Cool site, picked up Morrison's cause. Amid two positive reviews for the new movie, he championed Morrison's right to free speech and wrote: "He's written many reviews for us before, but when he wrote one for 'Fantastic Four,' Fox went into hypersensitive overdrive. They tracked him down and had him fired, threatening to pull their business from the entire chain over that review."

Sources inside Fox denied the studio's involvement, saying that the disciplinary action was beyond their reach and was the theater chain's decision.

Some entertainment companies, including film productions, do ask workers to sign confidentiality agreements, agreeing not to disclose information. Morrison said he had never been asked to sign such an agreement, though he would have if asked.

"If they had sat me down and told me that this has caused such a stink and that we would like you to sign some waiver, I probably would have signed it," Morrison said. "In my opinion, they used strong-arm tactics. I don't regret going on my Web site or Ain't It Cool at all. I just wish it hadn't come to this, but I don't really believe I did anything wrong."

Tashie said: "In the future, anybody in that position will sign something."

A number of Ain't It Cool readers have rallied to Morrison's cause, some even offering him jobs like a cameraman gig in Mexico.

Morrison said he is weighing his options. "I'm hoping to get a job as a professional movie reviewer, but I don't know what's going to happen with that. I guess you could say I'm at some kind of crossroads right now."

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i will not be seeing this ever.

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Out of all the big summer movies that ive seen (SM3, PC3, O13, S3rd) this was the best...


...sad...


...shame on me, or shame on them...?



please dont stone me

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This was really awful... I saw it cause I'm in Argentina and TV here is horrible. I downloaded it of course, and I was so bored I almost didnt watch the end (even though its like 80 minutes long). They had no idea how to fill these 80 minutes. Its the worst thing ever. I didnt hate the first one (it wasnt good either), but this one is really terrible.

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I didnt hate the first one (it wasnt good either), but this one is really terrible.

Exactly. The whole "celebrity" angle just really doesn't connect. The first one had some inklings of issues to explore, but there's none of that here. These characters just have no depth. It livens once they drop the worries over the wedding and not being in the public eye and the action kicks in, but that's only because you don't have to hear the terrible dialogue as much.