Writer Vows 'Silver Surfer' Movie Still Happening

Silver Surfer shows/showed a lot of potential as a movie character but he drew the short straw of being featured in the Fantastic Four sequel, which, while a substantial form of punishment, is not a death sentence. We already knew Fox wanted to reboot the Fantastic franchise, but now there's word that the Silver Surfer may rise again. Ninja Assassin co-writer J. Michael Straczynski cleared up some confusion about Surfer in a recent e-mail to Latino Review. While it would be easy to interpret the situation with FF2 as being the end of the road for a spin-off character, Straczynski says Surfer is alive and well.

"When I was asked about the Silver Surfer script, I responded about the one I'd written around the time that FF2 was launched, and was designed to pick up where that one left off. When FF2 didn't do as well as hoped for, that script was set aside, but that has NOTHING to do with the Silver Surfer script that is NOW under development at Fox with other folks. As far as I know, that is proceeding apace. So the hysteria that's gripped the nets about 'ohmygod the Surfer movie is dead!' is not correct, as I was again referring to only that one specific script tied into FF2, NOT what's being done now."

So there you go. The bad news is that Fox and superhero movies is not always something to get excited about, particularly lately. But if we forget all about the second Fantastic Four movie, maybe, just maybe, we can give Surfer the movie he deserves. Oh, and can we keep Galactus out of it, or at least come up with a better visualization than what we saw (or not exactly saw) before?

Comments

[Vince]

Eh, I stopped caring about a Silver Surfer movie about 2 months after Fantastic Four 2 came out. I'm about as excited for this movie as I am for a possible Ghost Rider sequel which is not at all.

Just kill it please screenwriters, kthksbai.

[Vince]

Oh god you just reminded me of Galactus.

HE'S NOT A GODDAMN CLOUD!