{"id":21076,"date":"2012-07-14T10:41:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:53:16","slug":"fox-hires-fantastic-four-reboot-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/14\/fox-hires-fantastic-four-reboot-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Hires FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/FantasticFour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/FantasticFour.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FantasticFour\" width=\"550\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/FantasticFour.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/FantasticFour-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Quickly following on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/12\/fox-to-fast-track-fantastic-four-may-lose-daredevil\/\" target=\"_blank\">bringing aboard<\/a> Josh Trank as the director of their planned reboot of their <strong>Fantastic Four<\/strong> comic book adaption franchise, 20th Century Fox has hired a writer for the film &#8211; Jeremy Slater.<\/p>\n<p>Although he has no produced credits to his name yet, Slater landed on the 2007 Black List with <strong>Score<\/strong>, which, according to its logline, was about &#8220;Two guys and a girl go looking for pot and make a wrong turn that leaves them surrounded by violence.&#8221; He has also the script <strong>Tape 4<\/strong>, which reportedly has some Lovecraft influence in it, in development at Lionsgate and <strong>My Spy<\/strong> a teen spy comedy with director Jake Kasdan attached at Universal.<\/p>\n<p>While the two <strong>Fantastic Four<\/strong> films that Fox released in 2005 and 2007 did fairly well at the box office, I was not too enamored with them. They didn&#8217;t seem to strike the right tone for me. It should be interesting to see what Slater and Trank bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/fox-taps-writer-fantastic-four-jeremy-slater-349042\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The studio brings on an unknown to handle the writing chores.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/14\/fox-hires-fantastic-four-reboot-writer\/\" title=\"Fox Hires FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Writer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[627,5391,4669],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fantastic-four","9":"tag-jeremy-slater","10":"tag-josh-trank"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}