Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:30AM2 comments ›
Wed Feb 27, 2008 — by Wade Gum
Galactus to Appear in 'Silver Surfer' Film?
The purple-headed giant returns to menace the Silver Surfer
Galactus' appearance in Fantasic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was a little underwhelming. Then again, so was the entire movie, so it was just par for the course.
When people think of Galactus, they think of a giant man in a purple and blue suit eating planets, not a vacuous gassy cloud that threatens to give Earth the dutch oven treatment.
Fans of the old school Galactus may be in luck. At Wondercon, Silver Surfer screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski commented on the status of Galactus in the upcoming film, which will be a prequel and detail the origins the giant planet eater and his silver herald.
According to Straczynski, the last Fantastic Four film refrained from showing Galactus in all his glory in order to leave his origin for the Silver Surfer film. Will we get to see Kirby's version of Galactus or will we be subjected to another storm cloud? We won't know for sure until 2009, when the movie will supposedly be released.
(via SHH)
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Comments (2)
Steve Chaput (6:28 PM on Wed Feb 27, 2008)
Can we hope that they go with a nice CGI Galactus in the film? I think that decent artists could do a good job on bringing that Kirby creation to 'life.'
Maybe Stan could do a cameo as one of his earlier heralds. :-)
Mike Gold (7:38 AM on Thu Feb 28, 2008)
Whereas I have a somewhat higher opinion of FF2 -- I thought it was okay and pretty faithful to the spirit of the source material, although they should have lost Doctor Doom -- I certainly don't see any pent-up demand for a Silver Surfer movie. With Wolverine Origins, Star Trek The Reboot and Magneto out there, I think we're being prequelled to death.