Silver Surfer Solo Movie Not Dead
So what some thought was dead is apparently a miscommunication. Say it ain’t so you mean something can get misconstrued on the internet? Anyway, sarcasm aside, Collider in an interview with Silver Surfer writer J. Michael Straczynski, quoted him saying “if they do a Silver Surfer film down the road, it’ll have to be its own separate thing.”
Thats a confusing statement and it got misconstrued with internet reports that the Silver Surfer spin-off movie was dead mainly because Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer didn’t do as well as Fox wanted.
Now, Straczynski emailed our pals Latino Review and explained that it’s not dead its just being screwed around with by Fox who is going a different route and having someone else write a script for them instead of using his.
We didn’t report on the earlier news because we are lazy and just didn’t get around to it and it wasn’t a major story in terms of priority. That being said kinda glad we didn’t.
“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.”
We’ll be sure to update you on the project as Fox continues its development. I am not a huge fan of Silver Surfer only because I don’t know much about him from the world of comics. That being said I liked him in the Fantastic Four movies especially with Lawrence Fishbourne’s voice and Doug Jones movements.
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