{"id":33434,"date":"2014-05-01T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:17:14","slug":"tim-blake-nelson-in-talks-to-play-mole-man-in-fantastic-four-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/01\/tim-blake-nelson-in-talks-to-play-mole-man-in-fantastic-four-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Blake Nelson In Talks To Play Mole Man In FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nelson-mole-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/nelson-mole-man.jpg\" alt=\"nelson mole man\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a>Maybe the second time will be the charm?<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/tim-blake-nelson-final-talks-700318\">Heat Vision<\/a> blog is reporting that actor Tim Blake Nelson is in &#8220;final negotiations&#8221; to play a socially awkward scientist named Harvey Elder in Josh Trank&#8217;s <strong>Fantastic Four <\/strong>reboot. Longtime comic book fans might recognize the name, as it is the civilian identity of the comic book Fantastic Four&#8217;s villain, Mole Man, the bad guy the team faced on their very first adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Mole Man is a scientist who was bullied for his looks, intellect and lack of social skills. He decided to leave the surface world and heads underground, where he discovers a subterranean race of yellow skinned creatures called Moloids. He crafts the creatures into an army which he uses to attack the surface world.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that while Harvey Elder will appear in the first film of the reboot, the Mole Man will not. The character is merely being set up as a bad guy for future FF films.<\/p>\n<p>This scenario must sound familiar to Nelson as this is the second time he&#8217;s played a character meant to be a villain in future installments of a comic book film franchise. He also played Sam Stearns in <strong>The Incredible Hulk<\/strong>. Once again, comic fans know that name as the alter ego of the gamma ray powered Hulk villain, The Leader. In the film, the Stearns character was a scientist helping Bruce Banner to find a cure for his condition. However, a lab accident caused him to be infected with some of the Hulk&#8217;s blood and begin to change into a creature resembling his comic book doppelganger. Obviously, it was setting up Nelson as a potential villain for the franchise, but a sequel to\u00a0<strong>The Incredible Hulk<\/strong> has not been forthcoming, and likely never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This will be the second time Nelson played a potential villain in a Marvel franchise.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/01\/tim-blake-nelson-in-talks-to-play-mole-man-in-fantastic-four-reboot\/\" title=\"Tim Blake Nelson In Talks To Play Mole Man In FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[106,84],"tags":[627,4669,2477,7252],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fantastic-four","9":"tag-josh-trank","10":"tag-the-incredible-hulk","11":"tag-tim-blake-nelson"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}