{"id":314080,"date":"2025-08-03T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314080\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:36:10","slug":"ioan-gruffudd-reflects-on-fantastic-four-threequel-that-never-got-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314080\/","title":{"rendered":"Ioan Gruffudd Reflects On Fantastic Four Threequel That Never Got Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIoan Gruffudd<\/a>, who notably portrayed Mister Fantastic\/Reed Richards in 20th Century Fox\u2019s Fantastic Four<\/a> duology, reflected on the scrapped plans for a proposed third film that never came to be.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Q&A with Vulture<\/a> tied to the release of Marvel\u2019s new take on the storied comic book family, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Welsh actor talked about feeling \u201cincredibly proud to be part of such a beautiful franchise,\u201d which comprised 2005\u2019s Fantastic Four and 2007\u2019s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe mindset was that we were going to do three, and I think the second movie was equally successful as the first and equally enjoyable for the fans,\u201d said Gruffudd, who attended the world premiere<\/a> of the MCU entry, which features Pedro Pascal in the main role. \u201cI 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. So there was definitely that sort of momentum, and the plan was to do three movies, but these decisions are beyond my control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough both aughts superhero films had a box office upward of $300 million and similar mixed\/positive reviews, Fox scrapped a potential threequel and, by 2009, announced plans to reboot the franchise, per previous reporting<\/a>. That movie, released in 2015, featured Miles Teller as Reed Richards and was a critical and box office flop. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to his previous comments about having lost confidence and seeking therapy<\/a> after the pace of his projects slowed down post-franchise, Gruffudd told the outlet: \u201cAs an actor, you almost grieve every part that you\u2019ve played, and this was no different. This was a massive stepping stone in my career, and because this was two movies over several years, the character becomes part of you. So I think the grieving process is that you\u2019ve enjoyed the character so much and you\u2019re not getting to play them again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Black Hawk Down actor also said he is \u201cexcited that the comic and franchise lives on\u201d with Marvel\u2019s 1960s-set reimagining, though regarding any future reprisals he noted: \u201cI\u2019m not in the new movie. Fans are convinced that I\u2019m going to be in a particular aspect of this universe that hasn\u2019t been written or filmed yet. But this idea of people showing up has been introduced, like Chris [Evans\u2019 Johnny Storm] in\u00a0Deadpool [& Wolverine], or I think Mister Fantastic appeared in the guise of\u00a0John Krasinski\u00a0at one point. So, no, I haven\u2019t been approached to reprise Mister Fantastic. But you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince its July 25 release, First Steps accumulated just short of $200 million at the box office, facing a 66% decline<\/a> in the vicinity of\u00a0Captain America: Brave New World in its second weekend in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ioan Gruffudd, who notably portrayed Mister Fantastic\/Reed Richards in 20th Century Fox\u2019s Fantastic Four duology, reflected on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,29430,27427,3943,20192,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314080","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-movies","12":"tag-the-fantastic-four-first-steps","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963925210982350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}