“Fantastic Four” Shot Like 1960s Kubrick

As the trailer showed, Marvel Studios’ upcoming film “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” unfolds in an alternate 1960s, a universe separate from the main Marvel one and one in which these heroes are the only superheroes on the planet.As a result, this 1960s Earth is quite different from ours – a world blending sci-fi with retro design evoking something of an almost “The Jetsons” feel about it at times. now, in a new interview about the film with Empire, director Matt Shakman says the period setting applies to more than just the world of the movie.

Shakman indicates the film’s story and characters are designed to evoke that positive feeling towards space that was around in the 1950s and 1960s:“This is very much about the spirit of the Space Race. It’s about JFK and optimism. It’s imagining these four going into space instead of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.



This idea is that they are the most famous people in America, because they’re adventurers, explorers, astronauts – not because they’re superheroes. And they come back and they’re superheroes on top of it. But primarily they’re astronauts, they’re family.

”In order to do that, it meant holding true as much as possible to the tech of the time: “I really wanted to go with as grounded a version of space as possible. So, no wormholes. Their tech is very much retro-future, but it’s also booster rockets.

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primis.tech/live/liveView.php?s=113101', 'widgetLoaded');That includes how the film was made with the movie’s visuals, production design and visual effects all done in a way to provoke the sci-fi films of the period: “I really wanted it to feel like it was made in 1965, the way Stanley Kubrick would have made it.

Within reason.”That resulted in emphasising practical sets and props, including a 14-foot-tall spaceship miniature. He also used old lenses of the period and approached filmmaking that felt more of the time.

He caveats all that, though, saying, “We still have a lot of CG.”By being in a separate universe, the film also doesn’t get saddled with the baggage of being in an interconnected world:We are our own universe. Which is wonderful and liberating.

There’s really no [other] superheroes. There’s no Easter eggs. There’s no running into Iron Man or whatever.

They’re it, in this universe. I love the interconnected Marvel Universe, but we get to do something so new and so different. Eventually this world will meet up with other worlds — but for now this is our own little corner.

”The film follows the four – Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) – as they take on a global threat from Galactus and his herald – the Silver Surfer.“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” will open in cinemas in July.The post “Fantastic Four” Shot Like 1960s Kubrick appeared first on Dark Horizons.

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