{"id":54552,"date":"2025-08-02T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54552\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:32:09","slug":"ioan-gruffudd-reflects-on-third-fantastic-four-scrapped-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54552\/","title":{"rendered":"Ioan Gruffudd\u00a0Reflects on Third ‘Fantastic Four’ Scrapped Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Fantastic Four<\/a> movies from two decades ago ended prematurely. <\/p>\n

\n\tIoan Gruffudd<\/a> starred as Reed Richards\/Mister Fantastic in 2005\u2019s Fantastic Four and the 2007 sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and with the new Fantastic Four film<\/a> recently hitting theaters, he\u2019s reflecting on how there was supposed to be a third film in the early \u201900s series and why it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe mindset was that we were going to do three,\u201d he told Vulture<\/a>. \u201cI think the second movie was equally successful as the first and equally enjoyable for the fans. I particularly loved working with Doug Jones [as the Silver Surfer] on that movie, who\u2019s just a terrific artist and an expert in the field of movement. If you want to witness somebody bringing a character to life physically, he\u2019s just untouchable.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cSo there was definitely that sort of momentum, and the plan was to do three movies, but these decisions are beyond my control.\u201d The films were distributed by 20th Century Fox.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the two movies, Jessica Alba portrays Sue Storm\/Invisible Woman, Chris Evans is Johnny Storm\/Human Torch and Michael Chiklis plays Ben Grimm\/The Thing. The late Julian McMahon played villain, Victor von Doom\/Doctor Doom. He died last month<\/a> at age 56. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Gruffudd also reminisced on working with co-star Evans and shared his thoughts on the actor\u2019s cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI absolutely loved working with him. I just remember laughing with Chris every single day on set, almost like giddy teenagers,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a true delight to see Chris reprising Johnny, and that\u2019s such an iconic sequence in that film. I was laughing out loud and just overjoyed by it, and it\u2019s a beautiful homage to what Chris did as Johnny.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSince then, the superhero team was rebooted for 2015\u2019s bomb The Fantastic Four, which starred Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a new iteration, hit theaters on July 25 and stars Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Vanessa Kirby and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fantastic Four movies from two decades ago ended prematurely. Ioan Gruffudd starred as Reed Richards\/Mister Fantastic in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,18832,41423,12761,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-54552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fantastic-four","10":"tag-ioan-gruffudd","11":"tag-marvel","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}